First I read this morning that computer maker Acer is buying Gateway . Yawn. Once upon a time I owned a Gateway computer. In 1998 Gateway didn't make a bad product. It took me six years to kill the computer, but that's beside the point.
Then I read that Acer or Lenovo may buy Packard Bell. Packard Bell? The most poorly made personal computers known to man? Packard Bell? Really? Wow, I thought the company had gone belly up long ago.
If you can believe Michael Scott's favorite online resource, Wikipedia: The Packard Bell name was withdrawn in the U.S. and has been used primarily in Europe.
So what's the moral of the story? I'm still trying to figure it out. I'm just shocked that someone would try to resurrect a brand name that to some folks, is synonomus for "bad product."
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