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Walmart Launches its Own "Overpowered" Line of Gaming PCs

posted by chromas on Tuesday October 30 2018, @08:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the moar-power dept.

takyon writes:

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: 2) by bzipitidoo on Wednesday October 31 2018, @01:59AM

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Wednesday October 31 2018, @01:59AM (#755904) Journal

    You don't need the high end graphics adapters for gaming. Save those for cryptocurrency mining.

    Embedded graphics such as the Intel Iris stuff can run even arcade style games at reasonable resolutions (2K) and framerates. And, they're a lot more open. I prefer AMD to Intel for a variety of reasons, some non-technical, but they really dropped the ball in this area. Been a long wait for Ryzen APUs, which are only now becoming available.

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