It looks like the Vizio laptops that were announced back in January at CES 2012 will be hitting the store shelves of Walmart this month. Vizio confirmed to Gizmodo that they would indeed be rolling out their first PC offerings to stores in mid to late June, but did not confirm any specs. In addition to a laptop, Vizio will also be launching an all-in-one desktop PC.
It is unclear whether the laptop Vizio intends to release will be the 14” Ultrabook that got displayed at CES. Vizio said at the time they would release an Ultrabook with a price that “doesn’t seem possible” according to the company CTO. Vizio is best know for its uber cheap LCD TVs and they’re hoping to beat the competition on price in the PC market as well. However, if you witness the 8” Vizio Tablet that was released last year, it has basically been following the price trajectory of other Android tablets – down. It’s about the same price as other cheap Android tablets, such as the Coby 8” Tablet andLenovo IdeaPad A1 7” that both cost under $200. So the question that remains is whether Vizio will walk the walk after talking the talk with their pricing here. If they truly want to win on pricing in the Ultrabook space, they’ll need to hit a price point under $700 as HP already has the Envy 4t Ultrabook priced at $699. Lenovo will be releasing their IdeaPad U400 Ultrabook priced at a similar amount too. All will be revealed in a few days and then we can all stop at aisle 4 when doing our Walmart shopping to check these out these new Vizio PC offerings in person. Should be interesting.
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