Packard Bell Unveils Nvidia Ion Nettop
They're back.
Remember Packard Bell? The company’s been out of mindshare for some time now, but it hopes to turn that all around.
The company today launched a new logo with a new tagline, “Puredesire.” It’s all a part of the new reinvigorating after being acquired from Acer. Along with it comes a new product line.
The Acer AspireRevo was the first nettop built off of the Nvidia Ion chipset and it seems that the Packard Bell iMax mini will be the second.
Sadly, the Packard Bell iMax mini is little more than a rebadged AspireRevo, which means the modest Atom N230 along with 2 GB RAM, 250 GB HDD, six USB ports, HDMI and VGA out.

Right now the Nvidia Ion crew is still quite sparse with only the two aforementioned nettops and Lenovo’s just announced S12 netbook being the only backers. Hopefully we’ll see a lot more Nvidia Ion products next week at Computex.

I havnt heard or thought of them in years! 5 or 10 years even. I didn't even know Acer bought them.
Sober up, then comment.
i guess that why they call him ancientnoob. hes so ancient he can't speak no more LOL
I don't know why they'd use that brand name. That's like building a new car and naming it Pinto, or Edsel. What are they thinking?
Their logo sucks. The old face with the red lines was better.
But I guess I can thank Packard Bell for leading me to start building my own computers. At the time Gateway and Compaq were also pretty crappy. Dell hadn't arrived on the scene yet. Not that Dell is anything to drool over, but certainly would have been an improvement. At least they use standard parts.
Packard Bell has continued selling PCs in EMEA and Latin America. In those locations, they are known as a solid but not very flashy vendor.
Just goes to show you how different the US market is from the rest of the world. There are lots of other examples. Microsoft Multiplan (never took off in the US, did great in Japan). Google Orkut (bombed in the US, but the top social networking site in Brazil). And the Google search engine (dominant in the US, 25% market share in China).
Is the picture accurate? Looks much like an EeeBox.
Oh my god, I completely forgot about the monitors that would turn green (as well as other colors) after a few weeks....I replaced many LM1203 RGB Amps in those boat anchors....
did not intend to annoy anyone, just sharing my experience