[SteveW]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., famous for marking down everything from housewares to hand lotion, has lowered the bar on discount computing by offering a sub-$500 laptop.

The giant retailer already sells a desktop computer by Hewlett-Packard Co. for just under $500, but the introduction of the "Balance" 14-inch portable in the same range breaks a perceived price barrier in the notebook-computer market.


http://www.stltoday.com/business

[Tyrano]

and it comes with linux instead of windows ;)

[u533m3n0t]

Not too shabby. Maybe the rest of the laptop prices will start to fall now...and hopefully come packaged with Linux.

[passi]

Wow, seems like WalMArt is f****ng leet :D

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Wal-Mart's Balance has a 14-inch-diagonal viewing screen, a 1-gigahertz processor, 128 megabytes of preinstalled memory - expandable to 512 megabytes - a 30-gigabyte hard drive and a CD-ROM drive.

Thats perfect! Really, this hardware is enough for a mobile hackin' machine on linux ;) If I only had 500USD.... :P

[jubbly]

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The open-source Linspire system - formerly Lindows - resembles Windows and includes the Mozilla-made Firefox Web browser. But the Balance also has preinstalled tutorials to walk new users through the Linspire environment

At least they are trying to encourage people to linux with the tutorials and offering one of the strongest browsers packaged. This might see more people moving across.