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Astra
03-21-2007, 03:22 PM
List here (http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129857-page,2-c,desktoppcs/article.html)

I had a Packard Bell and I remember the stupid interface on the screen. I think it was called Navigator and your desktop was a picture of a room with shelves for icons. It severely limited how many icons you could have out and wasn't intuitive at all. It was good for a kid to play with, but as a serious desktop replacement it was an utter failure.

That doesn't even touch the pain in the rear the hardware was.
bpitt
03-21-2007, 03:29 PM
I've owned the Packard Bell crap, and I think my daughter has a Barbie PC now, no wonder she throws it against the wall........
Bahlk
03-21-2007, 03:31 PM
After building my first PC a few months ago I have decided I wont buy another factory made pc. Any future PC's will be built by me that way I know what is in there and can pick the components I want
bpitt
03-21-2007, 03:33 PM
Smart move.....
TheKing
03-21-2007, 03:37 PM
get a mac

someone else builds it and builds it well...and it works
Astra
03-21-2007, 03:51 PM
After building my first PC a few months ago I have decided I wont buy another factory made pc. Any future PC's will be built by me that way I know what is in there and can pick the components I want
I've been building my own since I was 12 or so. I love doing it, but my last PC was actually an eMachine from Best Buy. I just didn't have the time to shop around for components and it was a great system for the price. My sister had one of the old ones that was utter crap (not the same model in the list, but from the same time period). Luckily they turned their product around and are making solid out-of-the-box machines now.

The other obstacle to building my own lately has also been money. Back when I used to build them, it was way cheaper to buy individual components or barebones sets and then fill them out than to go and buy one from a vendor. Now that so many discount vendors have gotten involved, it's harder for me to build what I want at an affordable cost. Still works better if you want something specialized though.
SoMissTV
03-21-2007, 03:52 PM
get a mac

someone else builds it and builds it well...and it works

Amen.

So, what mac are you using right now?
aaron
03-21-2007, 04:13 PM
My dad loved Packard Bell. They may suck for the geeks, but for anyone that didn't know much about computers, it walked them through things.
Bahlk
03-21-2007, 05:51 PM
My first ever computer was an Acer though and that was a piece of crap. Basically un-upgradeable
carsalesguy
03-21-2007, 11:14 PM
my first PC for me was a emerson, then it got taken back for a laser, then it was taken back and got a microlab 286 "clone"

geez- that was a pain in the a$$ for dad to keep "Stealing" the computer after i got used to using it-

but i remember dad getting me a $150 mouse for it
Kitty
03-21-2007, 11:20 PM
List here (http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129857-page,2-c,desktoppcs/article.html)

I had a Packard Bell and I remember the stupid interface on the screen. I think it was called Navigator and your desktop was a picture of a room with shelves for icons.

My first "home" computer was a Packard Bell. I remember the Navigator.

I'm pretty sure that was the computer that came with the 14.4 modem.
webster
03-21-2007, 11:22 PM
Top ten worst computers?....Can I nominate the one in my office?
firefly
03-21-2007, 11:28 PM
My first computer was a used Packard Bell & it served me well for the two years that I had it. It started locking up on me & that is when I got my new Dell for Christmas of '05. I love my Dell!
SoMissTV
03-21-2007, 11:32 PM
Top ten worst computers?....Can I nominate the one in my office?

I dunno. What is the Oak Grove Public Library using these days?

:smt118
SoMissTV
03-21-2007, 11:33 PM
My family's first computer was a Packard Bell Legend 60CD. It had a Pentium I 60mhz chip with the floating point error. I just got rid of it about four years ago.
wilebill
03-22-2007, 01:30 AM
I just got rid of it about four years ago.
4 computer years = 8 dog years.
Conveyor Belt
03-22-2007, 03:14 AM
Tandy 1000, Baby... no hard drive... upgraded to to 128K of memory!!! Man, that computer SUCKED!!!
aaron
03-22-2007, 09:01 AM
4 computer years = 8 dog years.

I like where your going here, but let's complete it.

4 computer years = 8 dog years = 56 human years = about ready for retirement.
Hermione
03-22-2007, 12:29 PM
Hate to break it to you kiddos, but hardly anybody gets to retire at 56 unless they have years & years in a good pension system. Most of my generation will have to work till we drop! I anticipate having the nursing home van drive me to and from my job one of these years. ;)
Back to the topic, what was the computer whose cover couldn't be removed from the CPU? Was that the P-B?
carsalesguy
03-22-2007, 11:15 PM
Hate to break it to you kiddos, but hardly anybody gets to retire at 56 unless they have years & years in a good pension system. Most of my generation will have to work till we drop! I anticipate having the nursing home van drive me to and from my job one of these years. ;)
Back to the topic, what was the computer whose cover couldn't be removed from the CPU? Was that the P-B?

some of the PB's had non-removable covers.

many of the macs back in the days had a hard to remove cover. most still do. that's why techs created the "mac cracker"