Walmart $298 laptop

[Mark Sefried]

Looks like walmart is selling a halfway decent emachines laptop for $298+tax. t4400 dual core processor, 3 gb ddr2 memory, 15.6 inch screen, 250 gb hard drive and comes with windows 7 64 bit home premium os. That's a very good deal for those specs. If you need a new cheap laptop for the upcoming chase season, this can't be beat for the price! Even though the link below may say "out of stock online", you may want to check your local walmart to see of they have any.

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=13374563

 

[Joey Ketcham]

Not a bad deal at all. According to their site though it says not sold in stores, not sure how accurate that is. I was pleased to see that it has an Intel processor in it, I hate Celeron. If any were in stock, I'd be all upon it.

 

[Mark Sefried]

That laptop is being sold in stores since it is in the current walmart flyer. They are selling like crazy attm per a couple of website forums that I have visited today.

 

[Scott Weberpal]

I was pleased to see that it has an Intel processor in it, I hate Celeron.

Do you mean Athlon? Intel makes Celeron.

UGH, my local ad has it for sale at $398

 

[Jason Foster]

Welcome to a Wal-mart strong arm price likely forcing a manufacturer into Chinese slave labor to remain profitable. We've seen all this before.

No thanks eMachines, no thanks Wal-Mart.

 

[Mark Sefried]

lol, u gotta love walmart. $398 for the same laptop that is selling for $298 here. The laptop is not that good of a deal for $398. I wonder why there is a $100 price difference in locations?

 

[Jason Boggs]

I'm not sure if I'd waste 298 dollars on an e-machine laptop. I've heard from several sources that they are trash. I'd rather spend a little more and get a better quality computer. Not a bad price for someone on a very limited budget though.

 

[Skip Talbot]

I would be leery of the 64-bit OS. I know a lot of people have had trouble getting their hardware to run on 64-bit machines. If you've tested all your stuff and it works, then go for it. Also, the 64-bit OS is not needed on a machine with 3GB of RAM, as the main reason for going to 64-bit is so the OS can use 4GB or more of RAM.

 

[Greg Campbell]

Gigahertz and gigabyte specs are nice, but E-Machine is not exactly known for build quality. An E-Machine built as a Wally World Special is liable to be assembled from even cheaper-than-usual components.

 

[Chris Strahan]

X2 Greg.
being in the computer industry, my personal opinion is that e machines remind me a heck of a lot like packard bell's! (for those who remember them)

 

[Wes Carter]

lol, u gotta love walmart. $398 for the same laptop that is selling for $298 here. The laptop is not that good of a deal for $398. I wonder why there is a $100 price difference in locations?

One reason I could think of is they have already put the competition out of business where they are selling for $398.

 

[Ben Holcomb]

X2 Greg.
being in the computer industry, my personal opinion is that e machines remind me a heck of a lot like packard bell's! (for those who remember them)

There's a name I haven't heard in awhile! Packard Bell computers were the junk standard of the mid 90s

 

[James Wilson]

Watch out for 64bit laptops ... I've had problems getting things to work with it.

 

[Scott Olson]

There's a name I haven't heard in awhile! Packard Bell computers were the junk standard of the mid 90s

Hey guys, these things gotta be worse than packard bells. I bought my first Packard Bell in 1991, a 486 DX, with 4mb of ram. It was $2500 with all the bells and whistles and boy it was fast! It didn't come with a cdrom but I think I got that around a year or so later. It did however come with a super fast 2400 baud modem and the best windows build ever, 3.1! Of course almost all the programs I used were launched through MS-DOS since Windows just made everything slow. I'm happy to report that my old machine works to this very day, some 20 years later. So yeah, they may have been the junk of the 90's but they aren't like these emachines made with the cheapest plastic and barely held together. These newer cheap end China laptops usually start breaking off keyboard keys within a year or two and then the A/C connector breaks. They are junk.

Once upon a time, I was a quality inspector for a major playground manufacturer. I spent many days in a cold South Dakota warehouse inspecting pre-built sets that were sent in from China. The sets were made of China Fir, which was a banned word within the company, instead refered to as Cunninghamia. I ended up documenting
hundreds of instances of parts of boards and holes being glued back together. That is, in China if you misdrilled a hole (say you drilled a 1 1/4" hole) and it was supposed to be a 3/4" hole, they would simply glue the stuff that fell out back in. They were unwilling to throw away anything for a defect! As someone who is to be commited to quality and safety I had to put my own job on the line and create an issue, which is something I really would rather not have to do. Eventually they fired that particular Chiniese factory but no doubtedly switched to another one.

It's a race to the bottom and were in the lead, sometimes you have to sell out to succeed.

 

[Kory Hartman]

If all you are looking at is price and RAM:
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=dndozm1&c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19

But I hate those glossy screens!