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they made crappy 486 and pentium machines in the us, and still make crappy machines in europe.]]>Aug 11th 2008 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/Jan 31st 2008 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/
packard bell was my first computer before i started building them yall remember good ol windows 3.1 it would come on and say packard bell and the packard bell navigator and had a little clown on the setup and kidspace also that was the $hyt i wish i could relive the 90's everything was better even the cartoons

oh yeah yall remember ski free]]>Jan 31st 2008 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/Jan 31st 2008 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/
When you got going really fast you could do those crazy jumps where you would fly down half the mountain.]]>Jan 31st 2008 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/Jan 31st 2008 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/Mar 6th 2008 4:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/Jan 31st 2008 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/
Packard bell was going under, and Gateway (essentially) bought them.

Now Acer is buying Packard Bell, therefore making Gateway an assload of money...

Or is Acer buying Gateway...

Or is Dell buying Acer???

Srlsly, i got lost along the way...]]>Jan 31st 2008 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/Jan 31st 2008 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/Jan 31st 2008 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/Jan 31st 2008 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/Jan 31st 2008 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/Jan 31st 2008 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/Jan 31st 2008 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/Jan 31st 2008 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/Jan 31st 2008 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/Jan 31st 2008 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/Jan 31st 2008 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/Jan 31st 2008 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/acer-gobbles-up-75-of-packard-bell/
Yes, I'm sorry.

Out of all the computers from PB we sold, about 75% came back as faulty, missing items, damaged, or just fuckin' useless.

Here's how I imagine the board meeting at Acer:

Exec #1: "Hey guys! I just bought us Packard Bell!"
Exec #2: "Packard Bell? For Christ's sake, what the hell for?"
Exec #3: "And where's our box of Krispy Kremes? We sent you out to get Krispy Kremes and you come back with Packard fucking Bell?"
Exec #2: "...and no Krispy Kreme donuts?"
Exec #1: "Well, on my way to Krispy Kreme this man came up to me on the street and offered me Packard Bell. It was a real bargain!"
Exec #3: "Waitaminute-- You didn't use the Krispy Kreme money to buy Packard Bell, did you?"
Exec #1: "Well, yeah. I did! I thought it was a great way to spend it! I thought you'd LIKE having Packard Bell instead of some donuts."
Exec #2: "Jesus' balls in a handbasket! You wasted our Krispy Kreme budget on Packard Bell? I can't eat Packard Bell! I can't dunk Packard Bell in my coffee, can I?"
Exec #1: "But I thought--"
Exec #3: "We sent you to perform a simple errand: Get Krispy Kreme donuts for the board. You couldn't even handle THAT?"
Exec #1: "I'm sorry guys. I figured this would be better than Krispy Kreme!"
Exec #2: "Well, you figured wrong. You made your bed, now you lie in it. You get to head up Packard Bell and deal with what you've done."
Exec #1: "Awww... I thought maybe we could run it together."
Exec #2: "No way. You bought it. You get to deal with it. And when you make that shitbox company turn a profit again, you can use the money to BUY US SOME GODDAMN KRISPY KREME, YOU MORON!"

Exec #1: [mopes... shuffles away with the keys to Packard Bell clutched in his hands]


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