$298 Laptop at Wal-Mart Starts On Sunday
Starting Sunday, Wal-Mart will offer the 15.6-inch Compaq Presario notebook for $298
Looking to save a buck while buying a laptop? If so, Wal-Mart will have you come calling with the $298 Compaq Presario 15.6-inch notebook (CQ60-419WM) when it goes on sale this Sunday, July 26. The low pricetag appears to be retaliation against Best Buy's laptop challenge that offers a 15-inch Acer laptop for $299 (already sold out).
According to this Wal-Mart blog, the laptop features the AMD Sempron SI-42 CPU clocking in at 2.10 GHz, Nvidia's GeForce 8200M GPU, 3 GB of RAM, a 160 GB hard drive, a SuperMulti 8X DVD±R/RW with Double Layer support, and built-in 802.11b/g WLAN support. The laptop also comes pre-installed with Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic (32-bit) and a 60-day trial of Norton Internet Security 2009.
"Quantities are limited and will begin selling at 8:00 AM on Sunday, July 26th," the blog stated. "May want to pass that along because we expect this one will be quite popular."
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Hard to beat pricewise. It's even cheaper than the netbooks which we expected to be half that price!Reply
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TheZander Same price as a netbook for more screen, a real keyboard, and a noticeable mount of extra processing and GPU power. Looks like a cheap win to me.Reply -
domenic Wow. That's incredible. I shelled out $1400 in 1989(?) for my x286 with 32MB HD. I don't remember how many kilobytes of ram it had ...Reply -
jhansonxi Vista? No thanks.Reply
Norton? Is the system too fast or something?
Compaq? I'll recommend it to people I don't like.
Nvidia 8xxx series laptop chips? I hope this isn't a clean-out of the last of the bad batch.
The rest of the specs seem adequate for a budget laptop but it's obviously not something that will replace the portability of a netbook. -
Aoster87 soldier37I'll stick with my Asus G51 Gaming monster, thanks. The kiddies can have that cheapo.Reply
No need for your uppity comment. Thumbs down.
I couldn't believe it when I saw it had a dedicated graphics card. Great deal, but I wonder what the battery life is like. -
Wayoffbase 60-day trial of Norton Internet Security 2009...
you forgot the rest..."at that's just a small sample of the battery and performance killing bloatware you receive absolutely free!" -
griffed88 I wonder how many underpaid overworked people from third world countries it took make this? -_-Reply -
Aoster87 Wayoffbaseyou forgot the rest..."at that's just a small sample of the battery and performance killing bloatware you receive absolutely free!"Reply
Reformat with Windows 7 or put XP on it until October 22. -
Caffeinecarl I'd call it an appropriate cost for something basic, so if it fits your needs, good buy. I'd buy this before I'd ever buy a netbook, that is, if I actually shopped at Wal-Mart. Still, I'll take my Dell Studio XPS 13 over it any day.Reply