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packard bell laptops?

post #1 of 11
11/30/05 at 5:51pm
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are these laptops well made or should they be avoided ?
a local shop is having a sale on them tomorrow but i am unsure because although i have heard of this brand i know hardly anything about them
has anybody any experience with them or their laptops?
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post #2 of 11
11/30/05 at 7:01pm
I didn't even know they where still in business. Personally I would not buy one.
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post #3 of 11
11/30/05 at 7:21pm
I've never heard of them, but I checked out the site, and they don't ship to the US. So maybe thats y I never heard of it.

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post #4 of 11
11/30/05 at 8:27pm
dont know for laptops but i had a PB desktop that lasted.....a LONG WHILE!
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post #5 of 11
11/30/05 at 8:35pm
I beleive that Packard Bell went out of business back in the late 90's.
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post #6 of 11
11/30/05 at 8:47pm
In the Uk Pakard bell seem to be making laptops/PC's still.
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/950183
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post #7 of 11
11/30/05 at 9:31pm
Oh my, dont buy

The build quality is bad. But sure thing- they're cheap!
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post #8 of 11
11/30/05 at 9:44pm
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Originally Posted by abf
dont know for laptops but i had a PB desktop that lasted.....a LONG WHILE!
lol, i killed mine up when i short circuited hte power supply.
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post #9 of 11
11/30/05 at 9:56pm
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Originally Posted by drizek
lol, i killed mine up when i short circuited hte power supply.
lol....i had mine till late 2003 and when i tossed it, it still worked, i just got a replacement for it.

if i remember the specs were:
10gb hdd, 133mhz pentium, 64mb ram, Win98 (later upgraded to ME).
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post #10 of 11
11/30/05 at 10:08pm
What a blast from the past. My friend bout one of their desktop's in 1993. They were sold by Sears back then. Packard Bell had the reputation for being the cheapest(as in trash), worst performing machines you could buy. I tried to help my friend upgrade several times, each time having to fight through riser cards only to find the component integraded onto the mobo.

Here's the wiki entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard_Bell

They may make decent products now. I just bought a compaq laptop for my parents, something I would have never dreamed of 5 years ago.
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post #11 of 11
11/30/05 at 10:09pm
i was still pretty young when i smoked it. looking back, i think the harddrive had just died. i had thought it was a problem with the connection and then connected a couple of the wires coming from the PSU together. i hid behind the bed, got a broom stick, hit the power button and the thing just started smoking and then the psu had a little explosion.

Edit: OMG, i still have the 166mhz(or 133mhz?) pentium 1 mmx with me. i took it out before i trashed the computer. its purdy. mine had a 2gb hdd though and windows 95.
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