Comments on: Medion Akoya Mini. Fresh from the supermarket. (First photo set)

By: Medion Akoya Mini (MSI Wind) 10-week Review. | UMPCPortal - The Ultra Mobile Computing reference site

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:47:10 +0000

[...] Checking out a mini-review by Andario, one of our members on the forums today made me realise that I should put together my own objective long-term review of the Akoya Mini that I’ve been using off and on for a while. It deserves it as its been working well and trouble free since I queued up for it at the beginning of July. [...]

By: Friedman

Friedman — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:41:57 +0000

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By: Charbax

Charbax — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:23:57 +0000

400€ isn’t super cheap, considering that the OLPC is 120€. But hey, it’s certainly cheaper then other subnotebooks.

By: fixup

fixup — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:33:07 +0000

I have one and only one question: how hot (or cold) and noisy (or quiet) it runs?

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:56:36 +0000

I hope that Aldi here in Ireland will have this soon. They’re usually about a month behind the Aldi in Germany when they have computers.

By: NobbyNobbs

NobbyNobbs — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:12:46 +0000

Gonna return mine tomorrow.
Turned it on and discovered a pixel error. It`s always red and in the middle of the screen and getting on my nerves. I`m pretty sure that it wasn`t there when I first turned it on this morning (I can`t have overseen it).
Normally they take their products back without a problem - ‘Doesn`t live up to my expectations’ should be enough justification.

By: Travis

Travis — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:58:17 +0000

I want to hear Sascha talk about all the new EeePC’s.

Aldi stores are not in my (The Great Pacific Northwest)neck of the woods. Their US web site looks to be more grocery oriented.

By: focus

focus — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:18:23 +0000

It doesn`t seems that mini to me.Its more like regular notebook.So:to be or not to be umpc!?That is the question!

By: Motz

Motz — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:39:58 +0000

Oh yeah and specs?

By: Motz

Motz — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:35:27 +0000

So is this thing exactly the same as the MSI Wind? Is it manufactured by MSI and just put out under another name, or is completely different?

By: anto

anto — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:35:04 +0000

hi there, I arrived a the 1st aldi and to my dismay it was sold out at 8.10am. I then went to another nearby aldi which opened at 8.30 and I got one!!!!! It’s really cute, and trying to figure it out, my problem is I don’t speak a word of german, hence the manual is a problem, any idea where I can get to to read the instructions in eng, I will have to get used to XP in german however on the laptop itself…

By: tal

tal — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:15:02 +0000

one a450 is Aspire one?

By: Sascha

Sascha — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:05:05 +0000

Yeah let’s do a live session soon…
i have a whole bunch of new netbooks right now and if we can do it on let’s say monday next week, i should be able to have:

MSI Wind U100 - got shipped
Medion Akoya - arrived
Eee PC 1000H - arrived at the customs
HP 2133 - arrived
One A450 - should be shipped tomorrow
And a bunch of other Eee PCs

lets do it

By: tal

tal — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:02:23 +0000

so ur on the edge of the black forest and u play with a netbook. that surely tells something about ur passion

By: NobbyNobbs

NobbyNobbs — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:54:09 +0000

@Jerry
The keyboard is great. Ok, no comparison to the keyboard of a thinkpad… But very solid and a nice, reassuring sound.
Key size is something like 95% of a normal keyboard. Only keys for +#-., and cursor keys are smaller and take some time getting used to. And the fact that the FN-key and ctrl-key are switched may also cause some irritation. But you get accustomed quite quickly.
Screen is quite bright and can be turned down quite a bit (personally I don`t thin that I will ever use the lowest setting. Perhaps in complete darkness).
Speed is ok but no overclocking. Device stays quite cool and the fan is really quiet.
The carry bag is ok, but nothing special. It reminds me of the carry bag that dell gave me with my xps m1330. Scratch protection, nothing more, nothing less.
Touchpad is ok, the mouse button about the only thing I completely dislike (up to now). Just one button and it just doesn`t feel right - there they copied the eee a bit too much.
But otherwise a great device. For me it replaces a jvc mp-xp731. It feels a bit faster, more solid, doesn`t get as warm and the keyboard also is better.

@ Jonathan Greene
Yes, you can get eggs and milk there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi