Packard Bell still exists? Why wasn’t I told?!
Yes, Virginia, there is still a Packard Bell, though it no longer sells computers in the US like it did during the 1990s. These days, as our record on the company shows, it focuses its efforts in Europe — something that apparently has made it attractive to Lenovo, which is looking to buy it.
Lenovo, you’ll recall, bought out IBM’s PC operations in 2005. That’s a pretty good toehold in the computer business, but Lenovo figures it can do even better by expanding its geographic reach.
Category: Deals, Technology
If you liked this post, please consider subscribing to the RSS feed so you can receive future articles delivered to your feed reader.
2 Comments so far
Leave A Comment
The first PC I ever bought was a Packard Bell. It cost me an even $1,000, in 1994, and I got it at Sears. It held up for about four or five years before I retired it.
[...] you hear “Acer versus Lenovo,” think “Hatfields versus McCoys.”* Recently we talked about Lenovo’s plans to expand into Europe by acquiring the Packard Bell. But now Acer has struck [...]