Packard Bell's new DOT S and DOT M netbooks for Europe

Acer-owned Packard Bell is taking Acer's latest and greatest netbooks and rebadging them for the European market. The 10.1-inch DOT S swipes most of its specs from the Acer Aspire One D250, while the DOT M (pictured) goes for the 11.6-inch Aspire One's guts. There do seem to be a few aesthetic differences, however, with a fancy textured palm rest, silver touches to the trackpads and a tweaked lid. The DOT S will be available this week for 299 Euros, while the DOT M hits at the end of this month for 399 Euros.

[emceephi Posted Apr 10th 2009 10:27PM]

Packard bell is still alive?!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 10th 2009 11:10PM]

thats exactly what i thought !! haha

[morissen3k8 Posted Apr 11th 2009 2:10AM]

acer bought them...

[ananimus Posted Apr 11th 2009 4:10AM]

No doubt! I thought Acer took PB to the stall out back and put it down years ago.

[fourthletter Posted Apr 11th 2009 8:37AM]

Packard Bell were owned by NEC before Acer and have been for sale in Europe for years.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 10th 2009 10:41PM]

Only in europe I believe. I wish they were still around in the USA. My first computer was a Packard Bell 486 DX2 with a 4MB of ram. I actually think they were much better than most other name brand computers available back then.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 10th 2009 10:47PM]

looks quite nice, but what is that on the touchpad?? its like the touch pad partially goes onto the button :|

[notice Posted Apr 11th 2009 12:20AM]

Reflection of the top left corner of the screen, me thinks.

[RKN Posted Apr 10th 2009 10:59PM]

If I saw this back in 1998 when I got my old beige colored Packard Bell, I never would have believed they made this!
Though to be fair, its really Acer that made this with a PB branding slapped on it. : )

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 10th 2009 11:40PM]

So are these the real deal, or just refurbished Acer Aspire Ones, repackaged to be new Packard Bells? I kid, I kid.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 10th 2009 11:43PM]

I think this looks quite a bit nicer than the normal Aspire One, though. It doesn't have that gap between the screen and base.

[okeribok Posted Apr 11th 2009 3:38AM]

It has a nice looking keyboard too and the price appears to be right: if it will really cost only 299, it's cheaper than a MSI wind U100...

[fourthletter Posted Apr 11th 2009 8:38AM]

Strange thing is it looks much nicer and higher quality than the Acer original.

[joshbw Posted Apr 11th 2009 11:34AM]

Dear Acer, I own the trademark to Shitpile Computers and am happy to sell it to you. It is widely regarded to be a more trusted name in computers than Packard Bell.

[Blackfeather Posted Apr 13th 2009 2:25PM]

ok. stop DOTS.