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Walmart will sell two laptops and a desktop PC designed in collaboration with Esports Arena:
Companies like Alienware might dominate the pre-built gaming desktop and laptop PCs, but Walmart is throwing down the gauntlet today. The company has launched its own line of powerful gaming rigs, as spotted by PC Gamer.
These machines come in three different flavors: two laptops, and a single gaming desktop. The specifications are pretty outstanding, but they come at a cost, which we'll get into later. All of the machines fall under Walmart's new "Overpowered" (OP) product line, and they're the result of the retail giant's recent collaboration with Esports Arena.
Who's next? Tesco?
Also at CNET.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @08:43PM (3 children)
Walmart is as big a symptom of American decline as Trump presidency.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @09:45PM (2 children)
Importing everything from the countries with the lowest cost of living and fewest safety regulations to sell at first-world prices? I thought that was called globalism.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by ikanreed on Tuesday October 30 2018, @10:29PM (1 child)
Globalism, as constructed in the 1990s, is the idea that everything is connected and the effects of no problem is strictly limited to the region where it's most prevalent; just a mode of understanding. The way right wingers use the word you'd think it was the neoliberal free-trade free-market ideology that rich assholes actually adhere to. It's a big old is-should conflation. It feels very "You noticed our foreign policy engendered international terror in a way that eventually led to 9/11? HOW DARE YOU WANT AMERICA TO BE ATTACKED SIR?"
I guess the point is to convince you to support tearing down regulations here, rather than, as you've very correctly surmised, demand a de-facto cost for abusing workers and the environment when importing things.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @11:56PM
You're only telling half the story.
Globalism isn't (and wasn't) JUST the idea that the world is interconnected. Any kid old enough to read newspapers could have told you the same. It went beyond that, to the idea that the world SHOULD be connected, and that we should join hands to march bravely into the future together blahblahblah. It was as much a normative as it was a positive position.
Quite without taking a position on whether or not it was a bad idea (and serious people have taken deep looks at both sides) there was plenty of rhetoric from the end-of-history crowd at the time that made arguments in favour of broader treaties, fewer barriers, more trade and so on. They did it for all sorts of reasons, including rather sophisticated arguments about better transparency reducing sweatshop exploitation abilities and so on.
Trying to make it a latterday bogeyman of the right wing is simply disingenuous at best.