Walmart.com: $498 Laptop Breaks Price Barrier
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Walmart.com is releasing the Balance notebook computer in conjunction with Linspire, which makes a Linux-based operating system designed for laptops.
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A rash of supremely affordable PCs preloaded with Linux has hit mainstream retail stores. And trying one is not as risky a proposition as you might think.Photos: Three sub-$200 Linux PCs
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Wal-Mart is offering a laptop priced at $498. The Linspire Balance laptop features a VIA C3, 1.0 GHz processor, 128 MB of RAM (expandable up to 512 MB) and a 30 GB hard drive.
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Dell Inc.  said on Friday  it would sell notebook computers at more than 580 of Wal-Mart  Stores Inc.'s  Sam's Club outlets for $899 each starting  next week, its latest move to sell computers in retail chains.
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Walmart.com is offering a laptop that dives below the $500 pricepoint, and it&#39;s no accident the machine, from Linspire, runs a Linux-based operating system.
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Q: We are in the market for a new computer, which we would use mostly for e-mail, the Internet, letters and reports. I&#39;ve read about a PC sold online by Wal-Mart that runs Linux instead of Windows.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  said on Friday its Sam's Club unit will start selling Dell Inc.  notebook computers for $899 each at more than 580 U.S. stores beginning in mid-June.
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Also: High security built right into $100 laptop's OS. Read these stories and more from around the Web at News.com Extra.
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Dell Inc.  said on Friday it would sell notebook computers at more than 580 of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s  Sam's Club outlets for $899 each starting next week, its latest move to sell computers in retail chains.
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NEW YORK: The world&#39;s biggest retailer Wal-Mart is offering price-conscious US consumers the cheapest laptop on the market, priced at just US$498, in a move described by some analysts as a &quot;significant milestone.
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The next time somebody asks you if you want to buy a brand new laptop computer for under $500, they may not be selling you stolen goods.
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In which our correspondent endures great travail in search of a sub-$300 laptop. In Gear Factor.
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The so-called "$100 laptop" has moved one step closer to reality, with 2,500 units set to ship later this month to eight developing nations. If the small test proves successful, mass production of the units would begin.
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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.
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The ultra-mobile, Linux-based laptop scene gets a little more populated as Everex prepares to debut its CloudBook -- $400, two pounds, and coming later this month to the nation's biggest electronics retailer.
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A laptop under $100 could reach desks if a new venture formed by the former&#160;CTO of One Laptop Per Child, Mary Lou Jepsen, can deliver on its promises.A &quot;spin-out&quot; from OLPC, the company, Pixel Qi is looking to create a $75 laptop and trying to advance low-cost computers and power-efficient laptops, mobile phones, and other consumer electronics that are sunlight readable, Jepsen wrote on the company&#39;s Web site.Jepsen left OLPC two weeks ago to commercialize technologies she invented with OLPC, she said in an e-mail to the IDG News Service at the time. A patent lists Jepsen as one of the inventors of a display system optimized for low-power operation.&quot;Spinning out from OLPC enables the development of a new machine, beyond the XO [laptop], while leveraging a larger market for new technologies,&quot; Jepsen wrote.There is a big commercial market for technology spawned by OLPC, Jepsen wrote. Prices for next-generation hardware can be brought down by allowing multiple uses of key technology advances, she wrote.The company will continue to work with OLPC by providing products at cost, and it will sell devices at a profit to commercial organizations.A similar promise to introduce a low-cost laptop came from OLPC, when it launched the $100 XO laptop in 2005. Since then, the effort has been afflicted by production delays and rising costs, which caused the laptop&#39;s estimated price to rise to $200. It is now beset by waning orders and competition from commercial vendors that threaten to sideline the nonprofit effort.As CTO, Jepsen was responsible for hardware development for the rugged and power-saving XO laptop, designed for use by children in developing countries. Though the laptop has struggled to find buyers, it has been praised for its environmentally friendly design and innovative display, hardware and networking features.Her departure from OLPC spawned a debate, with critics charging that Jepsen was taking advantage of OLPC&#39;s nonprofit inventions for personal gains, but supporters shot back, saying it was the right time for her to leave a sinking ship.Jepsen, who is attending the&#160;International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, was not available for comment.