• USA Today, Thursday, July 23, 2009 10:26 AM

Wal-Mart, which recently renovated the PC displays in 1,200 of its 3,600 stores, plans to refurbish more stores, broaden product selection and do a series of rock-bottom-pricing promotions starting on Sunday, Byron Acohido reports. Some laptops will be on sale for less than you'd pay for a netbook.

Wal-Mart will sell, for example, a Hewlett-Packard-made laptop, running Windows Vista with 3 gigabytes of memory and a 160-gigabyte hard drive, for just $298. "We believe we can move the needle for us as a laptop destination," says Gary Severson, Wal-Mart's svp for entertainment.

"Other retailers will be watching closely to see if they need to respond by dropping prices for comparable products," says David Daoud, IDC tech industry researcher. "It could potentially trigger a price war."

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