Packard Bell Club 89

Packard Bell and hewlett Packard are famous names in computing. Unfortunately, Packard Bell is only grasping at the coat tails of Hewlett Packard and it shows. I own an older Packard Bell Club machine with a Cyrix II processor. To be honest, I was dissapointed with it. It now looks nothing like it did inside before I got my hands on it. This is because the equipment shipped with these machines is not adequate for modern computing. They look nice and have nice sturdy cases but that is it. The motherboard came with on board sound from an SiS chip. This crackled and gave feedback during games so I disabled it and put a soundblaster Live in instead. The video was only 4 ...  Read the complete review

I bought a packard bell, pentium 3 , 450MHZ pc after the previous computer we had got damaged, a few months ago, the Packard Bell started to go all strange and refused to work properly, we have since discovered that all the computers main systems are ingrated and will therefore cost a lot of money to replace, we think that Packard Bell PCs are overpriced and not easily upgradable, should anything go wrong, the extended warranties are very overpriced and at the end of the day if you take the 5 yr warranty, your PC will be 5 years old at the end of it and will be consigned to the scrapheap in the proverbial sky for computers. ...  Read the complete review

Whether PC or laptop there are many various brands that you can choose from – which are all essentially the same. But are they? I’m sure you’ve heard the various stories – ‘my mate bought a Dell PC, and he’s had nothing but trouble, especially with after sales service’. We bought a Packard Bell PC from PCWorld in 1999 and got home, set it all up, plugged it in, switched it on. Nothing. Checked everything, boxed it all up, next day took it back. They said it was broken (yeah! We didn’t work that out!), and no quibbles gave us a new hard drive / main tower unit. Took it home, etc etc etc, switched it on! Wow! Black, Blue, ...  Read the complete review

This is the second Packard Bell Club I have had, my latest model being the Club 98. My old one was struggling somewhat with the things I wanted it to do and with a cyrix processor running the caboodle my hubby nagged me to get a Pentiun 3 system. I decided on another Packard Bell as I was happy with the older model (although it was a little slow for my linking). It had never crashed once in 2 years (unlike the IBM Aptiva I had before it which was a complete bag of crap - crashing on a regular basis). Also because it was a Pentium 3 model and it had a nice printer and scanner bundled together with the package, all for just £799. This, I believed, was value for ...  Read the complete review

Now we all know that when someone buys a pc they always go for the well-known brands, and that’s what I done. We tend to stray away from these shops we’ve never heard about because we never know what to expect. Some of these are genuine but lots aren’t. We think if we go to the big stores we will get value for money and good service. But this is not always the case. Packard Bell have a major deals going with major stores to offer us cheaper prices, but is stuff inside, which to be honest is what we look in good enough. My Packard Bell was bought when DVD Players were in, but before the CD Rewrite time. I find that it has got everything I need, ...  Read the complete review