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  1. December 27th, 2001, 05:20 PM #1
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    This is an old article, but reading it made me laugh.. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9811/09/macvp2.idg/" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9811/09/macvp2.idg/</a>

    here are quotes: "..interim CEO Steve Jobs' boast that the iMac is faster than the quickest Pentium II.." and "With 32MB of RAM (its standard shipping configuration), the iMac got clobbered on our Excel and 5MB-image Photoshop tests; in fact, the slower of our two test PCs, a Packard Bell Multimedia 945 with an Intel Celeron-333 processor, finished ahead of the iMac by 55 percent and 80 percent, respectively, on these tests"

    Whoa. Shamfull to be clobbered by a Packard Bell...Of course this article is from 1998...Since Packard Bell is somewhat dead, I guess the iMac is doing the clobbering!
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  2. December 27th, 2001, 05:24 PM #2
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    Packard Bell is not dead -- still selling in the UK

    That's funny though. a POS vs a POS.
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  3. December 27th, 2001, 05:29 PM #3
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    [quote]Originally posted by Jungleman:
    <strong>Packard Bell is not dead -- still selling in the UK

    That's funny though. a POS vs a POS.</strong><hr></blockquote>

    Ah them poor crazy Brits...
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    PB is based in Taiwan or Korea now.

    I still see a couple of "new" ones now and again.

    Still the same sh!tty product.
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    Packard Bell Dead?! HA!

    Sh*t doesn't die, my friends. It just gets spread around farther & thinner.
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    [quote]Originally posted by Cobra:
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    Sh*t doesn't die, my friends. It just gets spread around farther & thinner.</strong><hr></blockquote>

    Since people take a crap at least once a day, and there are 6 billion people in the world, and sh*t just keeps spreading...hmm that must be why the world is full of sh*t
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    [quote]Originally posted by Jungleman:
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    Since people take a crap at least once a day, and there are 6 billion people in the world, and sh*t just keeps spreading...hmm that must be why the world is full of sh*t </strong><hr></blockquote>

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    I love Packard Bells, they make up about 75% of my repeat customer base

    Get's worse though, not only are Packard Bells still selling over here... I've started seeing e-Machines
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    [quote]Originally posted by Outcoded:
    <strong>Get's worse though, not only are Packard Bells still selling over here... I've started seeing e-Machines </strong><hr></blockquote>

    Why is that bad? eMachines are guaranteed business
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    True. Though I'm beginning to understand the look everyone at my local garage gives me whenever I drag what remains of my Fiat Panda in.
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    [quote]Originally posted by Jungleman:
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    Why is that bad? eMachines are guaranteed business </strong><hr></blockquote>


    Packard bell, and e-machine are the same company..

    different name, different look, same sh!t.

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    Figures. Think I'll become a Mac technician.
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    im going to invent the Packard EMac computer.

    im sure i'll make billions and billions of dollers

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    [quote]Originally posted by AbSoLuTeZeR0:
    <strong>im going to invent the Packard EMac computer.

    im sure i'll make billions and billions of dollers

    MWAHAHAHAHHAAHAAAHHHA </strong><hr></blockquote>

    LOL...I encourage you...to give some techs aroud here some business

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    Better put a PC Chips board in that, give us loads of replacement business when some know-it-all kid tries to upgrade the BIOS.
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