On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Steve Alligood <[email protected]> wrote: > back in the day, Sears sold these and Compaq computers, with a 4% commission > on the Compaq and a 12% commission on the Packard Bell. Of course, Compaq > had a 5% return rate, while Packard Bell had a 25% return rate. > > There were good reasons why they left the US market in 2000.
There are definitely good reasons why PB left the market, and I for one don't miss them. But I have heard numerous reports that the few notebooks that they released were generally really solid. Unfortunately, they weren't really in the notebook market. Let's all just be glad they never entered the server market. -- "In order to create, you have to have the willingness, the desire to be challenged, to be learning." -- Ferran Adria (speaking at Harvard, 2011) /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
