Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will start selling build-your-own-computer components in more than one-third of its U.S. discount stores this month as it looks for ways to tempt shoppers to buy more than just low-margin food.
Wal-Mart currently offers only prepackaged bundles of personal computers and accessories in most of its stores. With the build-your-own-computer counters, shoppers can choose between several different components.
Such components include central processing units -- the brain of the computer that powers its basic functions -- as well as monitors, keyboards and mice that customers can combine to create customized packages they can load in a shopping cart and take home right away.
News source: Reuters
Wal-Mart currently offers only prepackaged bundles of personal computers and accessories in most of its stores. With the build-your-own-computer counters, shoppers can choose between several different components.
Such components include central processing units -- the brain of the computer that powers its basic functions -- as well as monitors, keyboards and mice that customers can combine to create customized packages they can load in a shopping cart and take home right away.
News source: Reuters
The article says 'central processing units', which is normally the processor, but some uninformed journalist seems to think that its the computer itself.....
Last edited by MioTheGreat on 03 May 2006 - 23:10
Maybe it'll be like a counter you go to, pick the parts from a list (much like a pizza), and watch it get made!
Not being elitist or anything, but I think computer building should be left to people with a little experience.
i think its gana be a kiosk with a "build your computer" web page (like dell) and you pick the parts you want and a wal mart guy puts everything together and loads an os image on with ghost or something. you finish your shopping and pick it up 30-45 minuts later before you leave the store.
"With the build-your-own-computer counters, shoppers can choose between several different components. "
I built mine and I don't know much about computers, just the basics and what I have read in manuals and stuff...
I wonder what they are actually doing... maybe is a dell/alienware/others type of thing.
"I have a Wallmart computer" sounds funny xD
Added a stick of RAM and a 7800 GT to an eMachine, runs pretty damn well.
Or the - no maam thats not a cup holder that is your CD_ROM tray, no you cant tape American Idol with that - yes you can install Windows new OS on it, well maam see right here it says "256 MB RAM" well think about it - 256 is a lot - that is great !"
"You mean 'dual'?"
"Yes. That's the one. How many would you like today?"
What we would likely see happen, or similar situation:
"I can just see it, two employees are looking down at a mound of parts with a Wal-Mart "Computer Building Manual" in one hand and a poster with pictured instructions. The people building the computers would probably be paid the same as everyone else there...minimum wage.
They try to put the CPU in its socket, but it won;t fit so they jam it in. Still wont fit. They call their manager, who is suppose to know all about computers, but doesn''t for help. He tells them to get a pair of sissors and cut off the extra pins, because they are not needed
Computer doesn't work and customer is ****ed, yay a winning combination!"
OH MY GOD!!
That's just a disaster waiting to happen.
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