I do not recall specifics but I have a vague memory that certain PBs did not have regular batteries and it made them very hard to operate.
I also remember the Red Alert LAN parties where one player had a PB: very slow to boot / lot of disk caching but it did always work very reliably.
Wasn't the first wave of Packard Bell systems just a way to cash in on older people's nostalgia for radios? Were those machines not also Chinese crap?
Getting back into the the desktop PC market seems kind of silly considering desktop PCs are now basically a niche product.
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V'Ger XT|Upgraded AT|Ultimate 386|Super VL/EISA 486|SMP VL/EISA Pentium
Perfect market then since us oldies ( 😜 ) clinging onto the desktop pc still remember Packard. 🤣
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Put it in Walmart / Best Buy / Staples and so on with cheap prices: it will sell! 😀
It seems like sometimes with buying a PC, you sometimes get a bad one. My Packard Bell Multimedia M400 boots in about a minute take or give. I probably won't be buying a new Packard bell though.
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