So, who purchased the Wal-mart laptop for $378?

[Pyro]

Tell me your stories. How long did you guys have to wait?

I waited 4.5 hours to get this HP laptop from Wal-Mart. I also purchased an extended 2-year warranty plan for $69 and a carry case for $10. The grand total was around ~$480.

This laptop was better than I had expected. I thought it would have some crap generic speakers and onboard video. However, the speakers are Altec Lansing and the onboard video is Ati Xpress 200m. This laptop was an excellent value.

I'll add more later.

[proxops-pete]

You lucky b******!! No luck here... congrats.

[Pyro]

I'm surprised no one on these forums had mentioned the black friday HP laptops at Wal-Mart. This was probably one of the best deals of the year.

As I had mentioned earlier, I arrived at Wal-Mart around 1:00AM. By 1:30AM a small line was beginning to form. When 5AM came around, there must have been well over fifty people waiting for the laptop. Unfortunately, Walmart only had fifteen HPs available. I was number two in line. :D

Here are the laptop specs:
AMD Sempron 1.6ghz 64-bit enabled
XP Home SP2
PC2700 256mb
40gb harddrive
24x DVD and CD-RW combo drive
Wireless lan
15.0 inch XGA TFT
Ati Radeon 200M IGP
Altec Lansing Speakers

[sharkyfel]

Is walmart planning on getting any more of these immediately? My mom could sure use a computer and this would be the ticket I think.

[KegCanMan]

Best buy has a deal right now...
I think its a compaq....
celeron 360
256 ram
dvd/cd combo drive
For around 475 right now...check it out

[mynameis]

Well had some 14in widescreen laptops w/wireless and 512mb ram for $460 a couple weeks ago.

[vairox]

who bought it? anyone with the nerve to throw down 4 year old girl on their face, run buck wild through the store, hair on fire yelling "wheres the $378 laptops!!?!?!?".... which was the typical case according to witness accounts, those who made it back alive... bfads.net, check out the stories...the decline of western civilization.... people tackling other people, all out bumrush on a pallet full of laptops, every man for himself.....real war on terror cr@p going down.

[ImaNihilist]

who bought it? anyone with the nerve to throw down 4 year old girl on their face, run buck wild through the store, hair on fire yelling "wheres the $378 laptops!!?!?!?".... which was the typical case according to witness accounts, those who made it back alive... bfads.net, check out the stories...the decline of western civilization.... people tackling other people, all out bumrush on a pallet full of laptops, every man for himself.....real war on terror cr@p going down.
rofl. peoples is CRAZY!!

[I4one]

who bought it? anyone with the nerve to throw down 4 year old girl on their face, run buck wild through the store, hair on fire yelling "wheres the $378 laptops!!?!?!?".... which was the typical case according to witness accounts, those who made it back alive... bfads.net, check out the stories...the decline of western civilization.... people tackling other people, all out bumrush on a pallet full of laptops, every man for himself.....real war on terror cr@p going down.
hehehe ;) - a fitting follow up on what your sig starts to say;

"'(Come on Dave, gimme a break)...Hey hey hey hey! One break, Comin' up!'....Change, and nothing stays the same -- Unchained, and you hit the ground runnin'" :P

bozo participation and exploitation

[Kalcium_King]

I heard that the one for 2006 is the Compaq Presario V6107US Notebook PC.

AMD Turion 64 Mobile processor MK-36 (2GHz)
• Genuine Windows XP Media Center
• 512MB DDR2 SDRAM
• 80GB hard drive
• Double-layer DVD±R/RW SuperMulti drive with LightScribe
• 15.4" WXGA high-definition widescreen display (BrightView)
• NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 graphics
• 802.11b/g wireless LAN
• ExpressCard/54 slot
• Windows Vista Capable
• One-year limited warranty

[Adisharr]

I'm not standing in line at Walmart for anything let alone the kind of people that are generally in line for a sale like that.

[Freddy_Kruger]

I'm not standing in line at Walmart for anything let alone the kind of people that are generally in line for a sale like that.
That is like the 5th time I have seen you diss walmart and I never read your posts. You must be an unemployed "greeter", why don't you apply for the shopping cart pusher job?

[Kalcium_King]

I made a mistake it is not for Black Friday and it has different specs

Compaq Presario V5305WM

2.00 GHz Mobile AMD Sempron™ Processor 3300+

512MB 333MHz DDR (upgradable to 2GB)

ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M IGP (128MB)

60GB 5400RPM Hard-Drive

24X DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive

15.4” WXGA High-Definition BrightView Widescreen (1280 x 800) Display

Integrated 56k modem, 100mb Network Card and 54g 802.11b/g Wireless Connectivity

1 ExpressCard/54 Slot (Not PCMCIA)

10.2"(L) x 14.1"(W) x 1.38"(min H) /1.77"(max H)

6.4 lbs

[Matt_E]

So if it's not for Black Friday, when does it go on sale then? And how much will it be?

[sunghan]

It starts on Sunday, November 5th and ends on November 11th. It will be priced at $398.

[reefer]

I bought one. Installed a spare 256mb module that I had laying around, and got rid of the HP restore partition so I could use that space..

I tried running QuakeIII on it and the game wouldn't load at first. I went to ATI's website and downloaded newer video drivers and now Quake3 runs surprisingly well, as well as UT and SOFII.

I'm very happy with it. The picture on the screen looks great.

[Mr Cherry]

damn thing was sold out when I got there. :(

[reefer]

There are still a few on ebay. Even at close to $500 they are still a good deal, but getting closer to being just another laptop:

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?sofocus=bs&sbrftog=1&catref=C6&from=R10&submitsearch=Search&satitle=compaq+5305&sacat=-1%26catref%3DC6&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D2&sadis=200&fpos=ZIP%2FPostal&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&fsop=1%26fsoo%3D1&coaction=compare&copagenum=1&coentrypage=search&fgtp=