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Walmart to sell $300 H-P Laptop: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer November 5, 2009
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Walmart and Hewlett-Packard have teamed for a $300 computer. The computer, which is priced like a netbook but built like a full-fledged laptop, features a 250GB hard drive, 3 GB of RAM, a DVD burner, a 15.6 inch screen and is powered by Microsoft’s Windows 7. Designed exclusively for Walmart, the computer could be a major victory for shoppers looking for the power of bigger laptop for the price of a netbook.
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2 Responses to “Walmart to sell $300 H-P Laptop: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer November 5, 2009”Cagdas Ucar November 5th, 2009 11:10 pm
Sounds too good to be true? Check the CPU: Intel Celeron 900
processor 2.2Ghz, 800 MB frontside bus and 1 MB L2 cache. It’s a
processor that Intel completely abandoned due to high power
consumption and heat generation. You want lower power consumption
and lower heat generation especially in laptops. Walmart probably
stopped Intel before throwing the work away altogether. They said
let’s jack up the cache and FSB (which should not have much of an
impact on performance in this case - it’s just a marketing gimmick)
and package it with a low-end laptop. I anticipate there will be a
lot of returns on this one due to processor malfunctions.
iSlate November 7th, 2009 11:58 am
Nice price! I wonder if Wallmart is going to carry the Apple
iSlate. I would definitely hold out for that instead of this thing.
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