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In article <314F3864.7F30@suba.com>, Rich Auchter <"drauch "@suba.com> wrote:
>Michael Strahl wrote:
>> 
>> I am looking into buying a Packard Bell or Acer PC from Best Buy.
>> The attractiveness of these systems are their price and that
>> Best Buy will give 1 year free financing.
>> 

>> MikeDefinitely stay away from the Packard Bell they are a very sub-standard
> company.  The March 96 PC 
>World rates Packard Bell's reliability as poor.  They also rated the Acer as
> fair.  You might 
>consider a Dell or Micron both rate high in benchmarks and reliability. 

It is my understanding that Acer and Packard Bell are the same company, or 
Acer is owned by Packard Bell...  Is this correct? I've heard it or read it 
somewhere. That's something to think about, as I would suggest something other 
than Packard Bell.
The only problem I saw when I looked into Acer computers is that the case is 
real funky and not necessarily suitable for everyone's tastes. It's just 
cosmetic, so it doesn't really matter, but one drawback is that the CD ROM 
drive is sort of "built-in" to the case, so not easily upgradeable. You will 
need to get a replacement faceplate for a standard CD ROM drive, or in adding 
extra drives. Just extra hassle. Tech support is not necessarily that great 
either. I've had great success with NEC, they were the first to really make 64 
bit graphics cards and 28.8 modems a standard in their systems. They don't 
make you pay for a ton of unwanted "free" software, and with the extra 
accessories (faster modem, etc) the prices are still not much more than other 
brands. Tech Support can be pretty bad at times, yet some people are quite 
helpful there. My system is quite fast and reliable, and setup was a cinch. 
(except that they labelled the input and output on sound card backwards... but 
I won't get into that...) Just my thoughts..
Mark P.