Walmart Electronics

Discussion in 'Trucking Electronics, Gadgets and Software Forum' started by REDD, Jul 21, 2010.

  1. Blue Screen

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    I recommend Asus notebooks. (I use to sell them,never seen one come back) Watch out for any note book with nvidia graphics. (Hi failure rate in PC & MAC notebooks) Stay away from HP/Compaq cheap notebooks. (My old boss just scrapped 50+ dead HPs, Some less than 6-months old!) Stick with Intel. (AMD can overheats and eat battery.) Try Newegg. http://www.newegg.com/ for notebook. even if you don't buy from them, at least read the customer review on various models. :biggrin_25515:

    Notebook and Drive Safe out There
     
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  3. Espressolane

    Espressolane Road Train Member

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  4. Ridgerunner665

    Ridgerunner665 Road Train Member

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    I bought this laptop (an HP G62) at WalMart in Wytheville, VA...it has been great so far.

    BUT...the first one I walked out with had been bought before, it had a password already on it. I took it straight back in there and exchanged it, which took about 30 minutes because the computer in the box was not the one that was supposed to be in it (different serial numbers)...they exchanged it without a hassle, but had to figure out what happened in the process.

    Its a good thing I didn't leave before checking to make sure the computer worked...if I had, things would have been different.
     
  5. REDD

    REDD The Legend

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    That's the one I bought last night. So far I'm liking it. It has a bigger screen then my other & seems to work much quicker. Plus this one seems to like my air card... My other one sometimes would accept it, sometimes wouldn't.

    The only thing I don't like is the touch pad. I'm just not use to it though.
     
  6. Ridgerunner665

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    I wasn't crazy about the touchpad at first...but its OK now. It just took some getting used to. (the one on my old Dell was a bit different)

    Its a pretty neat machine for the price...the Core I5 is a fast processor. One thing though, if you haven't done it...get you 3 DVD-R's and create those restore disks. That isn't for system restore...thats for the OS (Windows) and everything, it needs to be done.

    Thats my only gripe with HP, they don't include disks.

    Windows 7 is great too IMO.
     
  7. REDD

    REDD The Legend

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    I'm not sure if I can get use to Internet Explore though... Thinking I may have to download mozilla. That's the browser I've been using for several years.

    The audio isn't much to be desired... I watched a movie last night & had to turn my ceiling fan off just to hear it.
     
  8. Ridgerunner665

    Ridgerunner665 Road Train Member

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    Forget Mozilla (its gotten as bad as IE)...try Goggle Chrome, a great new browser. Simple, fast, and minimal.
     
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  9. outerspacehillbilly

    outerspacehillbilly "Instigator of the Legend"

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    You ever read their terms? No thanks. Not only that there is a secret little upgrade you can do to firefox and it's much better and faster./
     
  10. ironpony

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    I did the retail gig for awhile... a WalMart competitor. Got a lot of business from WalMart customers. Usually when they lost something, something quit running, needed to know how whatever widgit they bought worked, or to see if someone could get their stuff to work. So, just my humble opinion as a competetor at the time...

    1. Walmart provides absolutely no product support. What you walk out of the store with is what you get. See post on returned laptop with a password on it from a previously dissatisfied customer. Quite frequently, the stuff they stock will have something like a power converter that isn't close to anything made/sold here, because it's ultra-cheap in the far east.

    2. Read the sales slip carefully. They will only do what they have to, up to the last moment that they say they will. If it quits working at 1 day past your return policy, there is nothing they will do for you. You're stuck with junk.

    3. If you need help with whatever you bought, understand that the minumum wage register jockey has nada in product training. They run sales registers.

    4. Back when super-8 camcorders were hot, my outfit sold a JVC model that was nearly identical to something being sold at WalMart... a couple of back-end product model number codes were different. So was the price. Had a steady stream of the WalMart camcorders coming in for repair. WalMart doesn't fix anything they sell. What they sell is a price-reduced version of what you get elsewhere. In this case, to shave $50 off of the price, the manufacturer used a really cheap tape transport that was mostly plastic - that's what was usually replaced by JVC at nearly 2/3 of the original cost of the camcorder.

    That being said... there is a lot of stuff you can get at WalMart that will work for quite awhile. Laptops tend to last about 5 years, so if it doesn't immediately die out of the box, you're probably going to be ok for awhile. If you think you might want some product support... you might want to get your product elsewhere.
     
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  11. Ridgerunner665

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    I did read them...didn't see any reason not to use it.
     
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