How did Packard Bell manage to go out of bussines?

[DarkManX]

It looksed like they were doing much better then compaq before the P2 came out, How were they dumb enough to go out of bussines so sudenly? when they were so popular once? I remember there computers were always behind and never had the latest hardware and when everyone made a PC for under 1000$ they still didnt. why were they so dumb?

 

[NFS4]

Do you really need to ask that question? PB computer are crap

 

[DarkManX]

i know there computers are crap, but if people stoped buying crappy computers then emachines would go out of bussines 2.

 

[Cruisin1]

Give e-machines some time.... packard bell took some time to go out of business... some people haven't realized the crapiness of e-machines yet that's the only reason they are still around.

 

[hans007]

its not really about the machines. The company was also poorly run in general. i remember being told about a time when packard bell lost a warehouse. A warehouse full of barebones systems, they didnt know what warehouse all the stuff was. This was way before the internet and electronic tracking of everything. But still its hilarious stuff.

 

[Erasmus-X]

Packard Bell just had to die. It must have started costing the company too much to support their crappy machines. Hehehe, trying to fix a PB wasn't much fun either. I usually would have to end up ordering special parts for the stupid things to even work right. I'm sure glad I've never actually owned one.

 

[jamarno]

Somebody bought the rights to the name Packard Bell back in the 1980s for about $500K in order to fool Americans into thinking it was an American manufacturer of computers, but in reality it was just an importer of Asian equipment that had nothing to do with the old American company. PB aimed to be the leading mass marketer of computers in retail stores, and for a few years it achieved that goal but then lost the crown due to competition from companies like Compaq and HP and to its poor quality and support. Enter NEC, the huge Japanese electronics company that was #1 in PCs in Japan but had never been able to achieve any position like that in the U.S. It thought that PB would be the key to increasing American market share, so it paid over $1B for it. But last year NEC finally realized, like the rest of the public, that PB had no positive reputation, and it shut down the division completely.

 

[AngelOfDeath]

The most crappy computer made in the history. My GF has one and damn it sucks. I'm going to give her a better pc 'cause she really enjoys playing Q3 and is actually good compared to her 20fps on that PB-crap.

AoD

 

[xtreme2k]

PB sells comp with the most "FUKED" config if i remember

P3/600 with M64
5400rpm hdd

and the kind

 

[randypj]

Fortunately, mine was only a 286, and worked fine.

However, a couple friends had 486's....POS. Proprietary everything, as I recall.

Oh, yeah, and there was the class action (I think) that they lost and had to fess up to using "reconditioned" parts in pc's.
--Randy

 

[slurp]

NEC bought PackardBell, name, rights, and everything. Times flies so fast that almost everyone forgets that PB was the #1 seller in the US. Dell, Gateway, etc. killed PB, which really didi sell suck computers, but they were geared toward the newer buyer.