Posted 11/05/09 at 11:10:56 AM by Paul Lilly

It looks like Walmart is gearing up for Black Friday a little early this year. How so? The mega-chain has begun advertising several one-day in-store specials slated for this Saturday November 7th at 8AM.

Among the sale items is an Xbox 360 Arcade console for $199, which will be accompanied by a $100 gift card. That essentially brings the price down to just $99, provided you can make use of the gift card.

Other sale items on tap for the one-day special include a 15.6-inch HP notebook with an Intel Celeron processor for a shade under $300, a Blu-ray player for $150, a 42-inch 1080p Sharp LCD TV for $498, and a few more items.

According to Fudzilla, this is just the first of ongoing Saturday specials that will continue until Black Friday.

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Posted 07/24/09 at 09:30:45 AM by Paul Lilly

Looking for a low-cost notebook that doesn't fall into the realm of netbooks? Both Best Buy and Walmart have you covered, with the latter beating out the former by a buck in the sub-$300 price tier.

"For the first time, a 3GB memory laptop from a well-known brand has ventured below $300," Walmart said in a statement on Thursday.

And as far as we know, Walmart's right. Best Buy's $299 Acer comes with 2GB of DDR2 memory and an AMD Athlon 64 processor in a 15-inch package, while Walmart's Compaq Presario (CQ60-419WM) packs 3GB of memory, a 160GB hard drive, Nvidia GeForce 8200M graphics, and a 2.10GHz AMD Sempron SI-42 processor. And for you penny pinchers, the 15-inch Compaq will sell for a dollar less than the aforementioned Acer starting July 26th.

If you're hoping to pick one up, you might want to set your alarm clock early on Sunday. Customers have been having a hard time tracking down the $299 Acer at Best Buy, and a Walmart blog warns that quantities of its $298 Presario "are limited" and "we expect this one will be quite popular."

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Posted 02/10/09 at 03:48:44 PM by Andy Salisbury

It’s expected that Asus will begin selling their wildly popular netbooks in Walmart stores during the second half of this year. Given that they’re already being sold in Target and Best Buy, this doesn’t seem that outlandish.

The information (which comes courtesy of an “anonymous market source in Taiwan”) also noted that Asus is expected to market notebooks through Walmart as well. And while this doesn’t mean that they’ll be boasting the Eee line as their big seller, given the current economic perils, it’s very likely.

Asus is looking to increase their netbook shipments in the US from 650,000 in 2008 to over 1 million this year. If they add Walmart to their vendor list, this possibility becomes very likely.

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