Walmart offers $298 laptop

From TG Daily -

Starting Sunday Walmart will begin selling an exclusive Compaq Presario notebook it had developed in partnership with Hewlett-Packard for $298, or nearly half the price of comparable units. Specs include 3GB RAM, 160GB HD and Windows Vista.

Walmart's move could spell trouble for some notebook makers as they might end up incurring losses on each unit sold just to stay in the competition.

Additional details,including photo above, from TFTS indicate the model number to be Compaq Presario CQ60-419WM. It features a 2.1GHz AMD Sempron processor, 15.6" display (1366 x 768 resolution), an NVIDIA GeForce 8200M graphics card, a standard six-cell battery, Wi-Fi connectivity. and a dual DVD player in addition to those mentioned above.