...spotty onk told me the Packard Bell Club 40 was the latest and best selling computer and would suit my needs(lieing twit).He explained it had a large 3.2GB hard drive (If this is large I feel sorry for his girlfriend) and would be a great gaming machine with its Cyrix 300 MMX II processor.Yippey off I went to sort out the hard part....paying for it on there finance.This is where the twit ripped my eyes out and I was that p*ssed still, I never saw ... ...only £2.20 per week extra, if anything goes wrong it will always get put right said the onk.Thing is I paid for it over 4 years my computer which should have cost me £550 now with the interest payments and protection plans is costing me well over £1100.
The computer it self has been very reliable, but I had to upgrade it straight away to play games other than Hopper and other Atari based games.It only had a 2D graphic card which was build into the ...
bazza1603 31.12.2000
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Advantages: NONE Disadvantages: SLOW, BREAKS DOWN ALOT.,HARD TO UPGRADE
...wwith only a cyrix 300mhz which is very hard to upgrade with the motherboard supllied. I built a system of the same spec it cost me £250 where as people pay £600 packard bell are making alot of money ripping people off. Steer clear of this machine at all times. ...
Mansha 22.07.2000
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Advantages: Can't think of any. Nice adverts, bright sweat shirts? Disadvantages: See above.
...read my comments on the Packard Bell Spirit system will know my opinions on that system. The fact that I actually bought it from PC World was an aside. However, as my second Spirit has joined the 'Choir Silicate', it would appear that PC World's just started to show its true colours. Far from the sterling and smiling efficiency they displayed in actually relieving me of £2500 for my system, they have managed to stretch my well tested limits even ... ...site repair service and are charging me an arm and a leg for repair cover on my machine, it would appear that they have a problem in delivering the goods on these things. Since Christmas day, I have been the proud owner of a plastic box; a nicely styled plastic box, trimmed in chrome and of a very handy size, but it's still a plastic box. It would appear that the incredible technological back up provided by PC Clinic is in a bit of a quandry when ...
Smokey64 05.01.2001
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Advantages: good instructions on use, quite easy for beginners to use Disadvantages: to slow, bogged down with manufacturers software
...months ago i purchased a Packard Bell Club machine from an alledged reputable dealer who informed me (at the time a total novice as far as PCs were concerned) that what i was getting was the bees knees of the computer world. With interest this machiine cost over £1000. It wasn't until about 12 months later when the system crashed that i found i had problems. After speaking to Techical Services on a very costly phone call they arranged for an engineer ... ...he informed me that Packard Bell install a tattoo in their machines and that if that goes you've got to get their engineer to come and re-install it. I was also informed that if i wanted to increase the graphics i would need to purchase a PCI 3D graphics card as there was no AGP slot. Another annoying thing is that Packard Bell install an awful lot of their own stuff such as softkey bar etc which can be annoying appearing on screen everytime you ...
richiewalk84 08.01.2001
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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 ... ...long. I have contemplated replacing more pieces such as the hard drive but it is simply going to be throwing good money after bad. Its time to put this one behind me and buy a new machine. The solution??? Dont buy Packard bell as their components are not that good. ...
andycharger 05.09.2000
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I got this PC when it first came out about five years ago, back then it was top of the range. with 32mb 366mhz, 3.1gb!
If you compare it with todays PC's this is sooo bleak. You have to wait ages for it to load up, and when it has it hardly fits anything on it, hardly any games will play on it and you can hardly upgrade it. I think a snail could walk faster than this beast works.
However, it could be ok for a student who has a lot of patience, ...
robert_nighto 03.07.2003
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Advantages: Local Store Presence, Good enough support Disadvantages: Price (A little too much), technology lags behind mail order retailers.
...who do support for the Packard Bell systems, they're good people. Technically sound. But somehow when anyone I know has called tech support they've had the run-around. But that's all besides the point .. sort of! The build quality of these machines seems in general to be not too bad at all. The main gripe which I have with these machines is that in the past you've gotten very little for your money. This was inline with the other PCs which sold in ... ...longer acceptible. So now all I'll say is that if you want the satisfaction and peace of mind in knowing you have a local store to go scream at, buy a Packard Bell or other 'home' PC. if you're more interested in bang for your buck go elsewhere. ...
AndreBoyle 14.08.2000
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Advantages: cheap, reliable, easy to understand and operate Disadvantages: rather out of date, unrefined and unsophisticated
We purchased the Club 40B from PB because : a. It was cheap; b. None of us knew much about computers and we wanted it mainly for the kids to use to do homework.
Our local electrical dealers (Dixons) were running a deal on the Club 40, so we took advantage of it - the printer was free, but is an Olivetti and doesn't work too well.
We have enjoyed using the computer, especially for accessing the Internet, and believe it is very good value for money. ... ...understand and apply. However, having now gained some experience with computing, we have now realised that this is not the most sophisticated system we could be using. It's definitely one for the beginner, which is fine, because it is cheap and so far (since Jan 99), reliable. ...
valwi 29.09.2000
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Advantages: Good user-friendly home machine, nicely designed, plug&play Disadvantages: BAD support, SLOW machine, not easily upgradable
...ago to have purchased a Packard Bell Club 40 desktop computer. It worked fine - for a while, then one day, the CD-Drive just wouldn't read CD's. So, before taking any rash action, I consulted the manual. NOTHING. So I went to their website, which was written on the box of the machine, only to find that the machine I had bought, did no actually exist on the site - so there was NO support for it! So I had to buy a new CD-Rom drive. Problem with that ...
Kwame 14.07.2000
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