Cheap Laptops

When you think about buying a new laptop, WalMart may not be the first vendor that springs to mind — but perhaps it should be.

WalMart has great prices on laptops from vendors like Everex, Acer, Toshiba, Dell, Sony, and HP.

You may find the best deal by visiting your local WalMart instead of going online. WalMart’s web site offers a basic Everex NC1501 laptop for $398. My local Wal-Mart is selling a much more well equipped Acer for the same price.

Acer is a better brand than Everex. Toshiba, Dell, Sony, and HP are all premium brands which you can buy for very good prices at your local WalMart store.

For $648, you can purchase a Toshiba Satellite with a 15.4″ WXGA widescreen display, a 1.8 GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core processor, 1 GB RAM, and an 80 GB hard drive. That’s quite a reasonable machine!

In addition to comparing brands when buying a cheap laptop, you will also want to compare:

• Display size
• Display resolution
• CPU
• RAM (How much? How many available DIMM slots?)
• Storage (How much? How fast?)
• DVD drives (Read-Only or Read-Write?)
• Wireless (Built-in or add-on?)

When looking for the best deal, it pays to do your research and shop around. My recommendation is that you add WalMart to the list of places you look for your next laptop.