http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/ Engadget Comments for Packard Bell debuts updated ixtreme desktop PC http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/Jul 11th 2009 4:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/Jul 11th 2009 4:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/Jul 11th 2009 4:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/]]>Jul 11th 2009 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/Jul 11th 2009 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/
And this reminded me that I need to back up some old junk off of it yay!]]>Jul 11th 2009 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/
@mechachu
I'm assuming the machine you are talking about is one of the mentioned bastard children of Packard Bell and Windows ME.
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I actually pity the hardware.]]>Jul 11th 2009 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/It's perfectly fine if Apple does it, but every tech company seems to be rolling out a new 'ithis' or 'ithat.'
Please stop, before I have an 'istroke.']]>Jul 11th 2009 9:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/
Can anyone recommend a good, quiet off-the-shelf PC around the £1.5K mark for Photo / HD Video editing, or should I just bite the bullet and get a 24" iMac? :)]]>Jul 11th 2009 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/
That said, for 1500 pounds (~$2,400), you can build a machine with...
2x Xeon E5520 (2.26GHz, SMT enabled) + coolers @$400 apiece
12GB DDR3 RAM @ $100 per 3x2GB pack
Asus Z8NA-D6C motherboard @ $260
$200 for case & PSU (board is ATX)

which ($800+$200+$260+$200) leaves you close to $1000 for a graphics card and drives, although you'd probably have to find some way around the VAT.]]>Jul 11th 2009 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/Problem solved. Have a listen to an iMac when it's under stress it is certainly not silent, and laptop parts are generally slower than desktop parts.
I own an iMac and they are lovely machines but they are not silent and not really that powerful either.]]>Jul 11th 2009 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/
I am tempted to build my own PC, but TBH I really don't want the hassle on the driver / software front and would love to just get one over the counter. Be using it to edit 5DMk2 photo's in CS4 and 1080p video in Adobe Premier and After Effects. Was even thinking of getting a 2.26Ghz Mac Min with 4GB RAM and a 7.2k drive and a 24"NEC screen - but i'll probably miss the grinding power of a faster CPU.

I know I really want a Mac Pro - But i'll never pay that much, even if I had money to burn! ]]>Jul 11th 2009 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/Jul 11th 2009 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/ ]]>Jul 11th 2009 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/Jul 11th 2009 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/
Guess what Engadget as you have said in the past Acer are using their own brand for budget stuff they bought Gateway and Packard Bell to use as slightly more premium brands, Gateway for the USA and Packard Bell for Europe, they are basically the same machines.]]>Jul 11th 2009 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/
it's good to see the brand still exists...gooooood memories. *sigh*

im just kind of surprised that my mac mini is so much more powerful, but i can't even run red alert 2 in parallels :(]]>Jul 11th 2009 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/
Don't think Acer should take a chance in marketing this under the PB brand, however -- as that name has such a bad rap associated with it -- AKA Puckard Bell. ]]>Jul 11th 2009 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/Jul 11th 2009 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/
Our first computer was a PB 386SX/20 w/ a whole 2MB of RAM in it and it ran DOS 5 & Windows 3.1. We upgraded it to 4MB of ram, added a SoundBlaster card and a *gasp* double-speed CD-ROM drive! (I remember when those were impressive specs!). Along the line my younger brother got mad that I was always on the computer, so the parents found a used PB 386SX/16 for him to use. And then sometime mid-late 90's when the family's "main" PC had been upgraded to something in the 200MHz range (and my brother had gotten an Acer w/ a 166MHz Pentium in it), I found an old low-end Pentium PB so my mom could check her e-mail and do basic internet stuff. (Even though we had a cable modem at that point, she still was using AOL for e-mail because, well, she to this day, can barely use a computer.)

-Adam]]>Jul 11th 2009 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/Jul 11th 2009 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/Jul 11th 2009 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/Jul 11th 2009 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/
And don't give me the whole "it's not the 90s now, they've changed".

This was in 2007.]]>Jul 11th 2009 8:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/Jul 12th 2009 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/Jul 11th 2009 11:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/
486SX 20Mhz
2MB RAM
80MB HDD

I also upgraded to 6MB of RAM after a while for a ridiculous sum of cash. ]]>Jul 13th 2009 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/packard-bell-debuts-updated-ixtreme-desktop-pc/Jul 12th 2009 11:55AM