Advantages: Very useful product, quiet and well made Disadvantages: few and very irrelevant
>>>>>>>> PACKARDBELL Store & Play 3500 - REVISED REVIEW <<<<<<<<
When I first bought this multimedia Hard Disk, these kind of peripherals were still an expensive novelty.
For who doesn't know yet, a multimedia hard disk is an external hard disk where you can store your media files from the computer (video, music and pictures) and then plug it to the TV and enjoy them on big screen. Before these became widely available (and having the computer usually too far from the TV) I had to write everything on CD or DVDs (which are limited to 700MB and 4.5GB respectively) and then play them on the DVD player.
You can imagine how many hours and CD or DVDs lost for something you might even watch only once and never again.
Needless to say that I've been dreaming of a product like this for years. All my films (and possibly ...
Advantages: Cheap Cheap Cheap Disadvantages: Hard-disk on the smallish side
idiots had the computer up and running in little more than ten minutes. Finally, some bundled software is supplied on CD as well as a PackardBell recovery DVD Rom should things go wrong and the factory default setup needs to be returned to.
◄A look at the components in more detail►
◄The Processor►
The 3051 is powered by an Intel Celeron 2.6 GHz Processor with 128 kb cache memory which is a budget processor from Intel aimed to counteract the success of AMD`s Duron chip. The Intel Celeron is also very much the poor relation to Intels Pentium 4 series and as you would expect does not perform as well as its bigger sibling. For those of a technical bent the 2.6 GHz Celeron has 400MHz "Quad-Pumped" Front Side Bus and L2 cache to 256KB. In benchmark tests I have seen on the internet the 2.6 Celeron performs ...
Advantages: Good computers Disadvantages: Poor customer service, patronising staff
I am more than pleased with my PackardBell computer however I am not happy with their level of customer service. I recently required some technical advice from them regarding the restore disk they supplied with my PC. I was referred by them to the point of sale (PC World). They in turn referred me back to PackardBell saying it was not their reponsibility. A further call to PB eventually got me through to a tchnician who treated me as if I was totally thick. His whole attitude was patronising. Needless to say I didn't get very far with this enquiry. Instead I e-mailed my query to them. I got an automated reply saying my mail had arived but I have to this day heard nothing further despite 6 other e-mails being sent to and received by PackardBell.
I have finally given up on them and resolved the problem I was experiencing by going ...
