Comments on: $298 Walmart laptop: Dirt cheap, or just cheap?

By: George Kessel

George Kessel — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:25:29 +0000

I bought a toshiba laptop at Walmart but I just assumed it would have all of the standard, usual programs such as Excel, which you have to have to do spreadsheets.

Guess What? Walmart has Toshiba leave out some programs, including Excel!!

Why? So they can sell cheaper.
I hate this laptop and I think Walmart is cheating customers by selling laptops which some programs are left out of on purpose.

Crummy deal, Walmart!

By: Cindy F

Cindy F — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 07:27:01 +0000

Both my daughter and I purchased an Acer Aspire 5515 from Walmart 2 years ago when Walmart had them for sale at $348.00. Neither one of us have had any problems with our laptops and we both love them. My daughter especially since she uses her for college. It has an AMD Athlon processor and will buy nothing else in the future, not even Intel as it is not cracked to be what it advertises.

By: mary

mary — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:28:05 +0000

I am thinking comments that suppose something negative but are based on no personal experience seem to generate more heat that light. Just a thought ……..

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:13:17 +0000

I have had no problems with any thing I have bought at wallmart. ..even when they had black friday and everything was cheap.

By: mos

mos — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:08:56 +0000

in fact I like walmart Onion. But not walmart computers.

In my opinion walmart computers are a Old in box new computers. Most of walmart computers use to be some Celeron processor . or the Everest computers
Computers that doesn’t get sold on time they bring it to there shelves. it look like a liquidation.

What is the speed of your shining new laptop. because you skip it in your description. is it an intel atom? if so. you can name it a heavy netbook. I’m kiddin.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:15:52 +0000

My wife received a HP Pavilon desk type pc
as a gift 5 years ago. No problems with pc.
Only the Operator 82 yrs old. Iwould buy another one if needed.

By: brandi

brandi — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:30:13 +0000

I love Wal Mart, but that notebook may not be such a great deal. I think its one of the smaller ones meant for surfing the net. It wouldn’t matter whether you bought an HP Pavilion at Wal Mart or Best Buy or anywhere else, its the same computer, made by the same manufacturer – that particular computer would have had the same problem no matter where it was sold. No retailers will fix or refund computers after 30 days or so, that is a normal practice. You usually have to mail it in to the manufacturer to be fixed on the warranty.

I bought a Compaq laptop at Best Buy in April for $399. Its a normal size computer with all the same specs as the average laptop. The picture quality on the screen is also really impressive, movies and tv shoes are really great quality. I love it. I would never buy one of those smaller notebooks after looking at the specs.

By: Tampa Computer Services

Tampa Computer Services — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:25:27 +0000

mbhunter: I’d say that it is a net book which I believe has become a generic term for any lower end/capacity laptop. You certainly wouldn’t want to run Vista & IE 8 with all the bells and whistles enabled and try to get your work done without it locking up on you.

They don’t mention the processor’s specs, but I’d bet dollars to donuts that it’s a low powered atom processor or something equally small/slow.

Not to say that you couldn’t make it work by disabling a lot of unneeded features and tweak it so that it runs better… but off the shelf, I’d be surprised if it ran pretty well with bloatware and other features built in. Hope this helps!

By: pam

pam — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:35:55 +0000

my laptop is working great no promblems

By: mbhunter

mbhunter — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:26:14 +0000

Tampa Computer Services: Are they netbooks? They didn’t seem that small. I could be mistaken though.