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    Packard Bell sold to eMachines founder for undisclosed sum

    NEC has sold its Packard Bell European consumer PC business to the Chinese entrepreneur Lap Shun "John" Hui for an undisclosed sum.

    Hui co-founded eMachines, a PC system builder that was sold to Gateway in 2004 in a cash-and-stocks deal, making him Gateway's largest shareholder. Then, in August 2006, Hui put in a bid that was turned turned down to buy Gateway's retail operations for $450 million.
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    At my previous job, the number of eMachines we had in during the last 6-12months is shocking. Theres always the gentle trickle of Dixons Group equipment that kept us afloat, but the number of PSUs (especially, obviously, during the storms we've had the last 2 months or so) that we'd changeed (Bestec manufactured, if interested) was crazy for a shop of our size. They have a habit of slowly dying component by component 2, this happened about 4 times in the run up to me leaving. Customers PSUs we'd changed for new Akasa, Tagan or Seasonics only a week before were reporting issues, motherboards were going (incidently, TriGem manufactured - try getting hold of drivers for old eMachines chipsets), HDDs would die. These were all various socket 478 boards and CPUs ranging between about a year and 3 years old. And the crappy front panel wiring on the cases, URGH. Ok rant over..

    My point being that we don't get that many Packard Bell machines in, I've used 2 samples of their latest laptop recently and the build quality on them are pretty nasty, but they look half decent and are decently well spec'd on paper. Sluggish performance when the HD is being accessed (4200rpm drives maybe?), and coincedently, under load, the trackpads on both samples used would only move the cursor vertically and not horizontally which drove me up the wall. We had the odd Packard Bell machine in, usually the motherboard dies through physical damage like blown capacitors, but no-where near the failure rate of eMachines. I don't know the sales volumes of either brand, but I would expect Packard Bell to be more popular as its a relatively well known name in comparison to eMachines, but this maybe changing.

    To wrap up, I hate both of them, and hope they fail unless they do something with the quality of their parts

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    Heh

    However good (or not) they were, you can't argue about the Brand impact - Packard Bell is a good western sounding brand that consumers are far more likely to buy in the shops than eMachines or similar.

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    Especially when HP was knows as Hewlett Packard. You also had Bell labs/telecom which people vaguely knew about. So it was kind of a combination of the two, in naming terms anyway

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