I was so hoping the PB brand would be no more after the acquisition. No luck I guess. Does anyone have good memories of owning one, other then learning how to build your own PC after it died?
I actually had a great experience with their 386/25Mhz machine from Costco back in the early 90s. It came with a 386DX/33Mhz chip instead of the 25 Mhz indicated on the box and the manual. It was huge, in a full size all metal desktop case. It was a solid performer with no hardware conflicts. It was unlike all the newer PB models that followed, which got smaller, sported more plastic, and came with "integrated" proprietary hardware that made upgrading and troubleshooting close to impossible.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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I was so hoping the PB brand would be no more after the acquisition. No luck I guess. Does anyone have good memories of owning one, other then learning how to build your own PC after it died?
I actually had a great experience with their 386/25Mhz machine from Costco back in the early 90s. It came with a 386DX/33Mhz chip instead of the 25 Mhz indicated on the box and the manual. It was huge, in a full size all metal desktop case. It was a solid performer with no hardware conflicts. It was unlike all the newer PB models that followed, which got smaller, sported more plastic, and came with "integrated" proprietary hardware that made upgrading and troubleshooting close to impossible.