anyone brought a laptop from walmart

[Guest]

just wanting a cheap one so my little girl can surf net what would u go for

[Guest]

anything should work for you. I've bought a few laptops from the US but from Best Buy or Fry's rather than Walmart. Only issue could be that the keyboards are slightly different to UK.

[Guest]

They were selling them last black friday for $300 in Walmart. They were basic but fine for the internet and basic functions.

[Guest]

thanks dont care about keyboard only pound sign is missing.
got around 300 dollers to spend on one, think ill just get one from walmart thanks

[athurstance]

We bought our villa laptop from Walmart. We've had it nearly 2 years now and it still works and looks good. It does get quite a lot of use from guests and I think it has stood up really well.

[jeanwales]

We bought an Avertec laptop from Walmarts about 6 years ago.
Still going great guns - Have had a few from Circuit City too but the Walmart one still handy - it was a 12 " screen and great.

[Andre]

Keyboard is more of an issue than just the missing pound sign. Other keys are in different places too (e.g. double-quotes, @ sign for emails, etc). If you're used to a UK keyboard, it can be a bit annoying.

Andre

[Ste]

I bought one 3/4 weeks ago from Walmart and it is perfect. When I got home, just went to Maplins and bought an A/c adapter. It was £275 altogether! Not bad!

[BevS97]

You can set the keyboard to UK mode, but you need to know where the keys are (ie, ok if you are a touch typist). We have a girl in the office using a US keyboard set to UK mode and we've tipexed on the correct keys, not classy but it's working.

[Bozza]

Just remember that even a $300 laptop is going to be just over your customs limit for goods to be bringing back into the UK and should be declared. I don't believe it's possible to 'split' a single item across 2 people (ie half of the laptop is mine and half is my wife's etc)

(Note: I'm quite happy to run the 'risk' of bringing in goods above the limit but I know, from similar threads on here, others are not)