Bentonville, Ark. – Walmart this weekend will start
rolling out a series of new notebooks for the back-to-school selling season.
The first introduction, on July 26, is the $298 Compaq Presario
notebook. Laptops from Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Toshiba will follow in August.
The Compaq model is the CQ60-419WM,
and it features a 3GB of memory, 160GB hard drive and an 2.10 GHz AMD Sempron
SI-42 processor.
In early August Walmart will start selling the HP
Mini 110-131NR netbook. This will be followed in the middle of the month by
the Toshiba
L355-18.3. A Dell model featuring 4GB of memory and a 500GB hard drive will
hit Walmart at the same time.
Walmart’s pricing has not been announced.
