Thursday, November 3, 2005
The $398 Laptop from Wal-Mart and HP?
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 12:00 PM
"Wal-Mart and Hewlett-Packard will likely celebrate this Thanksgiving season by attempting to crush their competitors with low-price desktops and notebooks, according to a Web site that tracks bargains. Black Friday 2005, which posts information about retail deals, posted scans of what appear to be future Wal-Mart newspaper inserts featuring a $398 laptop and a $398 desktop with an LCD monitor from HP. The notebook deal, if consummated, would represent a new low in price for mainstream Windows laptops. The laptop in the ad comes with a 2800+ Sempron processor from Advanced Micro Devices, 256MB of memory, a 40GB hard drive, a CD-RW/DVD drive and a 15-inch screen."
If HP can sell a laptop for $398 and make a profit, however small, why can't someone come out with a slate-style Tablet PC-type 12" screen device for around the same price or less? I want something that would sit in my TV room and be available for casual Web browsing. I tried doing that with my Pocket PC last night and the crippled browser made it a frustrating experience.
If HP can sell a laptop for $398 and make a profit, however small, why can't someone come out with a slate-style Tablet PC-type 12" screen device for around the same price or less? I want something that would sit in my TV room and be available for casual Web browsing. I tried doing that with my Pocket PC last night and the crippled browser made it a frustrating experience.
