Dell to Sell Laptops at Sam's Club

Following an announcement last month that it will sell specially-made desktops in select Wal-Mart locations, Dell announced Friday that it will sell notebook PCs in 500 stores of Wal-Mart subsidiary Sam's Club. The PCs feature Windows Vista Home Premium, including 2GB of memory, and sport AMD's Turion dual-core processors. Sales are to begin next week, the company says.

Unlike the Wal-Mart deal, the notebooks sold will be the same as what is sold on its website, the Inspiron model number 1501. Although Dell spokespeople did not immediately have retail prices available, the systems are currently selling for $549 on the Dell Web site after a $100 instant rebate.