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Article #158Re: Q: Are Packard Bell or Acer PC's reliable, and...
From: Kurt
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 00:00
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gmstrahl@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (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. >I am going to set up my system to run both DOS and Linux. On the >Linux side I want to set up a web server and do a lot of code >development (i.e. C, C++, Perl, ...). >With my needs in mind, will the Packard Bell or the Acer prove >to be reliable. >I'm looking for the pros and cons on each of these systems and >any real life experiences dealing with Packard Bell, Acer and >Best Buy. >Thanks! >Mike Avoid Packard Bell like the plague unless you never plan on upgrading anything, and like a system that shorts you on what most companies consider standard equipment (e.g. L2 cache....local bus slots..etc.) Kurt knowlwk@mail.auburn.edu An Unsatisfied Packard Bell owner..... :(
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f53ba,914713666f836c09 X-Google-Attributes: gidf53ba,public X-Google-Thread: 100cc1,914713666f836c09 X-Google-Attributes: gid100cc1,public X-Google-Thread: 11196f,914713666f836c09 X-Google-Attributes: gid11196f,public X-Google-Thread: 105111,914713666f836c09 X-Google-Attributes: gid105111,public From: knowlwk@mail.auburn.edu (Kurt) Subject: Re: Q: Are Packard Bell or Acer PC's reliable, and... Date: 1996/03/19 Message-ID: <4il0uh$kvj@ns.campus.mci.net> X-Deja-AN: 143201140 references: <4ikjqq$iv4@ecom1.ecn.bgu.edu> organization: Anybody-R-US reply-to: knowlwk@mail.auburn.edu newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,chi.wanted