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Who is Packard Bell? And are they known for anything, good products etc. ? :D

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"Packard Bell is a Dutch-based computer manufacturing subsidiary of Acer. The brand name originally belonged to an American radio manufacturer Packard Bell founded by Herbert "Herb" A. Bell and Leon S. Packard in 1933 "

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If I'm not mistaken they were an old PC company. HP is Hewlett Packard, so they might be related in some way.

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Who is Packard Bell? And are they known for anything, good products etc. ? :D

They are HP, but just different.

They make pre builts and laptops

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If I'm not mistaken they were an old PC company. HP is Hewlett Packard, so they might be related in some way.

I was thinking of that. :):D

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"Packard Bell is a Dutch-based computer manufacturing subsidiary of Acer. The brand name originally belonged to an American radio manufacturer Packard Bell founded by Herbert "Herb" A. Bell and Leon S. Packard in 1933 "

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They are an off shoot of Acer like someone else mentioned above. 

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They are HP, but just different.

They make pre builts and laptops

Seriously.

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Seriously.

150% serious

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150% serious

I'm 200% sure that that doesn't sound right. really. HP is Hewlett packard, why would... Damnit, of to wikiepdai. Lol

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They make terrible computers and laptops

What's terrible about them?

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I'm 200% sure that that doesn't sound right. really. HP is Hewlett packard, why would... Damnit, of to wikiepdai. Lol

No I meant they have the same sort of bussiness like HP, make pre builts, pack in some keyboards and mice and sell them to every school and office in existence.

HP is just more well known.

 

(I was not saying HP = Packard Bell)

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I still remember, my first PC was a packard bell with the amazing RAM size of 32MB. What a beast

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I still remember, my first PC was a packard bell with the amazing RAM size of 32MB. What a beast

My mom has an old Packard Bell out in her garage, it's still in its original box and everything. She says it was her first college computer. I always tell her that I want to dig it out and mess with it but I'm always told it's too much of a hassle.

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I don't need amazing performance. I just need Python and Nano. (A programming language) and (a text editor) respectively.

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My first 486 desktop was a Packard Bell, I got it in 1992.  It had a 3.5 and 5.25 floppy disk drives and a 120mb hard drive.

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Didn't Packard Bell become Compaq and were eventually bought out by HP?

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Confirmed its a sub-dvision of Acer.

 

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On that who remembers gateway?

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It's not something you want to buy, I can tell you that.

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It's not something you want to buy, I can tell you that.

I do not need gaming specs. or anything.

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On that who remembers gateway?

Not me.

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Didn't Packard Bell become Compaq and were eventually bought out by HP?

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It's a sub-division of Acer allright.

I have a 2008 Packard Bell Dot netbook, and underneath the skin it shares just about every component with an Acer Aspire A150.

I'm even running an Acer BIOS on mine (the original PB BIOS was too restrictive).

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