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From: PeterS
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 1998 00:00

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Packard Bell assembles PCs form cheap, no-name components, many of
which are proprietary designs (i.e. forget upgrades.)  The customer
service also sucks.  

Packard Bell essentially makes PCs for the mass merchandise channel
(i.e. K-Mart, Circuit City, and the like) for people who don't known
enough to do some research before they buy a product.  

These are "throw away PCs", designed to make you come back to the mass
merchandise store every 2-3 years to buy a new PC.

Peter

On Fri, 2 Jan 1998 17:56:03 +0000, Rob Alexander
<robnews@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Upon the day of Sun, 21 Dec 1997, shawn <shawn1@nospam.ibm.net> scrawled
>on the wall (in blood):
>>I guess you need something to comfort you after making a huge mistake. I
>>learned my lesson years ago about packard smell. Sorry to hear about your
>>purchases.....Shawn
>>pfarson@ix.#.com wrote in message <67f6o6$936@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>...
>>>I just found this web site, all of you that own Packard Bell Computers
>>>should love it.
>>>http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/8774/
>
>Why do so many people hate Packard-Bell PCs? I've never seem one, but
>I'm just curious.
>-- 
>Rob Alexander           Replace nospam with mhairi to reply
>        
>www.mhairi.demon.co.uk
>

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From: xorg@msn.com (PeterS)
Subject: Re: Great Packard Bell Web Site
Date: 1998/01/02
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