"Wal-Mart and Hewlett-Packard will likely celebrate this Thanksgiving season by attempting to crush their competitors with low-price desktops and notebooks, according to a Web site that tracks bargains."
I think their master plan is to get a butt load of people to buy these cheap desktops and laptops and then make them realize 6 months later that their systems suck, therefor requiring them to buy more hardware to keep up to date. But I guess you could say the same about a top of the line PC also. Anyway,
read it here. 