Posted on 11/24/2005 7:12:37 PM PST by narses
My local Walmart is advertising a HP Pavillion ze2308wm for $378. Is this a decent laptop? I've never had a laptop before and when I travel it would be useful. Opinions please.
Do I detect animosity towards WalMart because you may have been turned down for the job of Mr.Hospitality? In your case sounds like Shopping Cart 101 is a prerequisite.
But it is trolling when you come in and make a blatant attack and don't give reasons for the vitriolic attack or in any way defend your opinion.
LOL because I get it.
Most interesting.
only 256 meg of ram
lots of windows crashes
make sure you use only 1 application at a time.
also cd burner only, no dvd burner
only 40 gig hard drive too.
It has a mobile Sempron (value AMD cpu like the Intel Celeron and not a speed demon or good for cpu intensive apps) and only 256MB ram, that's barely enough to run XP and another app considering that the onboard graphics will eat up 32MB to 64MB of that. For the price you get what you pay for and while it's cheap if it doesn't do what you want it's worth zero. If you can live with long load times, don't run games, open big spreadsheets or use photoshop like apps and only need it for word processing and light browsing it might get you by otherwise you'll be pulling your hair out. You can get better for a little more and be happier
They just sell cheap chinese crap.. CHICOMS! RED CHINA! ..never mind the fact that every other retailer sells the exact same product
They pay their workers crap wages! ..Cashiers and shelf stockers should be paid $50,000 a year. I feel very stupid for getting a college degree. I should have gotten a job stocking DVDs.
They put mom & pop stores out of business! ..Ah yes, Mom&Pop stores. No longer can Mom&Pop stores have a 200% markup on their products while paying their employees minimum wage with no benefits. You will note this in no way contradicts point #2.
From everything I've read on the laptop thread at BFads.net the HP at Walmart is a good deal. It's good to go for wireless, and has a decent battery.
I go to my Walmart every year for Black Friday. There is a comaraderie amongst the bleary eyed, and caffeinated shoppers alike, as we await the magic hour of 5AM.
My Walmart usually has quite a few of the BF biggies on hand, and I've noticed that some stores, like circuit city say on their website, that each store will have at least 15 of their sub $500 laptops..My Walmart always has more than that of the BF specials.
Good Luck-BTW, if you don't like it, electronics can be returned at Walmart.
Save your anti-capitalist sentiments for your union pals.
Get 512 RAM at least. I run a 1 gig of RAM
The kitties are hungry...
Wrong target...
I'm typing this from a HP ze4800, which was the bottom-of-the-line (or close to it) HP laptop from a few years ago.
It has worked very well in all this time, apart from not coming with the Firewire port that the floor model in the store showed it to have. The USB 1.1 ports are sluggish compared to 2.0.
Make sure you try out the keyboard for responsiveness. The one on this ze4800 has kind of a "dead zone" in the center where I really have to pound on the keys.
Strickly POS.
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