I have already gotten the Walmart ad

[heatherkw]

for next week. They are going to have a Laptop on sale like they did before last years BF. It's an

ACER

Intel Celeron Processor

512MB DDR2

80-GB Hard Drive

Reads DVDs and writes CD

Windows Vista Home Basic

 

$398

 

Minimum 20 available per store.

One Time Offer so no rain checks

[lotion]

  heatherkw said:

for next week. They are going to have a Laptop on sale like they did before last years BF. It's an

ACER

Intel Celeron Processor

512MB DDR2

80-GB Hard Drive

Reads DVDs and writes CD

Windows Vista Home Basic

 

Minimum 20 available per store.

One Time Offer so no rain checks

What is the price?

[heatherkw]

Oh shoot sorry it's $398

 

July 15-21

[Marcster]

Another $200 would buy a decent Compaq:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8404158&type=product&productCategoryId=pcmcat103700050014&id=1180743304365

 

Dual-core Pentium, twice the ram, burns DVDs and CDs, and Windows Vista Premium.

[eicats77]

  heatherkw said:

for next week. They are going to have a Laptop on sale like they did before last years BF. It's an

ACER

Intel Celeron Processor

512MB DDR2

80-GB Hard Drive

Reads DVDs and writes CD

Windows Vista Home Basic

 

$398

 

Minimum 20 available per store.

One Time Offer so no rain checks

 

 

 

Celeron Processors are very very slow. They are not worth a penny.

[Marcster]

  eicats77 said:

Celeron Processors are very very slow. They are not worth a penny.

Not to mention that 512mb of Ram is below the Microsoft recommendation for running Vista (they recommend 1GB+).

 

This laptop probably wouldn't even play DVDs nicely or play streaming audio/video.

 

I'd recommend buying a used laptop with better components from ebay or a place like http://www.clearanceclub.com (never dealt with Clearance Club, there are tons of places out there like that).

[heatherkw]

  Marcster said:

Another $200 would buy a decent Compaq:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8404158&type=product&productCategoryId=pcmcat103700050014&id=1180743304365

 

Dual-core Pentium, twice the ram, burns DVDs and CDs, and Windows Vista Premium.

Yeah this is the one we are looking at. Thanks for the info.

[pottsie66]

IMHO I wouldn't recommend an Acer at all. We used to have one and it was junk!!!!

[supershopper1]

Before BF last year I got the Toshiba Pentium M ddr2 for $450 at Walmart. Much better than the Celeron. Upgraded to 1gb for $29.