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

By: Tampa Computer Services

Tampa Computer Services — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:07:19 +0000

These are the “netbook” types of laptops. They generally don’t have enough power to handle the higher end applications for audio/video editing or other power hungry consumption. They’re intended primarily for ultra portability while surfing the web. They expect you to do most of your computing online or “in the cloud”.

In other words, instead of using Word, Excel and Office, you’d opt for Google Docs and Gmail or some other similar offering.

I’d tend to agree that the parts are going to be cheaper and I’d anticipate a higher than average failure rate and therefore… I won’t be buying one anytime in the near future.

By: Jim T

Jim T — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:10:50 +0000

I just wondering why they sell the laptops for the cheap price? Is it because if the old model / old stock they hold? It is better to buy laptop from Amazon at least with Amazon 30 days price guarantee and also manufacturer warranty.

By: Bible Money Matters

Bible Money Matters — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:01:28 +0000

I’ve generally had great experiences at the wal-mart in my city – returning all sorts of things – open packages mind you – and never being questioned twice about the return. Granted, the items weren’t computers, so there must be a different return policy on those. But i do remember returning a DVD recorder almost a year after purchase, and getting a full refund. Maybe my wal-mart is just more lenient?

By: PeterM

PeterM — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:59:40 +0000

I don’t have any experience with Wal-Mart computers, but my experience tells me to avoid this king of “dirt cheap” offers. They always have some hooks and every time I purchased something like this, it turned out to be a big mistake.