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Anyone see this about eMachines buying Packard-Bell?

post #1 of 16
6/22/06 at 4:03pm
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/200...s_for_packard/

like, whassup wit dat? Or is it even eMachines at all, or just their former owner?
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post #2 of 16
6/22/06 at 4:06pm
from what I saw in the news yesterday, its their former owner when they were public (back in their poor quality days before they were privatized, well before they purchased gateway)

kinda funny coincidence, tho. the eMachines technical support center is in the building that used to belong to Packard Bell and house their tech support when they still operated in the Americas. it stil has the Packard Bell logo on the side of it too (they never took it down)
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post #3 of 16
6/22/06 at 4:10pm
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Originally Posted by The Anaconda
from what I saw in the news yesterday, its their former owner when they were public (before they were privatized, well before they purchased gateway)

kinda funny coincidence, tho. the eMachines technical support center is in the building that used to belong to Packard Bell and house their tech support when they still operated in the Americas. it stil has the Packard Bell logo on the side of it too (they never took it down)

That was your 2000th post on this forum,btw. Isn't that good for a round of beers somewhere?
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post #4 of 16
6/22/06 at 4:14pm
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Originally Posted by pharlaptop
That was your 2000th post on this forum,btw. Isn't that good for a round of beers somewhere?
i even made it from my notebook too (had to reboot my destkop to my x64 installation so i could get the settings for my compiler, trying to configure my compiler on my notebook)

so i now have 2000 non-OT posts
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post #5 of 16
6/22/06 at 7:29pm
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Originally Posted by The Anaconda
i even made it from my notebook too (had to reboot my destkop to my x64 installation so i could get the settings for my compiler, trying to configure my compiler on my notebook)

so i now have 2000 non-OT posts

A helluva career. I, on the other hand, am not only posting with my notebook, but field-testing the battery life on the crapper.
As well as how well the LCD holds up to corrosive fumes.
More info than you may have needed- jpegs available on request...what sacrifices we put ourselves through for technology.
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post #6 of 16
6/22/06 at 7:45pm
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Originally Posted by The Anaconda
i even made it from my notebook too (had to reboot my destkop to my x64 installation so i could get the settings for my compiler, trying to configure my compiler on my notebook)

so i now have 2000 non-OT posts

Congrats, conda!!!
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post #7 of 16
6/22/06 at 8:53pm
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Originally Posted by pharlaptop
A helluva career. I, on the other hand, am not only posting with my notebook, but field-testing the battery life on the crapper.
As well as how well the LCD holds up to corrosive fumes.
remind me to stay away if you ever say you're selling your notebook
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post #8 of 16
6/22/06 at 10:31pm
Doesn't Gateway own eMachines now anyway?
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post #9 of 16
6/22/06 at 10:55pm
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Originally Posted by Kaido
Doesn't Gateway own eMachines now anyway?

Simple short answer, you can say that.
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post #10 of 16
6/23/06 at 2:52am
Though wasn't that just on paper, didn't the CEO of eMachines become the new CEO of Gateway.
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post #11 of 16
6/23/06 at 3:01am
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Originally Posted by mestizo122
Though wasn't that just on paper, didn't the CEO of eMachines become the new CEO of Gateway.
yes, he did. as well as the high up staff in eMachines being placed in department head positions in Gateway
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post #12 of 16
6/23/06 at 3:16am
This seems to come up about once every 6 months or so ... care to make a macro for it so you can post it easier 'conda?
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post #13 of 16
6/23/06 at 12:59pm
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Originally Posted by Thunder_PC
This seems to come up about once every 6 months or so ... care to make a macro for it so you can post it easier 'conda?


long story short Gateway stock value was simply too crappy at the time to effectively buy Gateway and privatize it. so they did it the other way around.
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post #14 of 16
6/23/06 at 2:27pm
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Originally Posted by The Anaconda


long story short Gateway stock value was simply too crappy at the time to effectively buy Gateway and privatize it. so they did it the other way around.

That's what I had read also, that Gateway was posting quarterly losses, while eMachines was innovating with Arima .
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post #15 of 16
9/5/07 at 3:48pm
Is that the same building that is in SLC, Utah next to a Grocery Market(Smith's I think)? If so, I use to work there!!

Umm that may not be a good thing to see on the forums... lol
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post #16 of 16
9/5/07 at 4:23pm
nice bump of an old post

lol yes, but the Smiths is empty now (it moved a block down). in fact, more or less that entire complex is empty now except for the call center
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