Packard Bell Unveils Sleek Maestro 230 LED Monitor

btarunr · Feb 9, 2011

Packard Bell unveiled its latest sleek and swanky display, the 23-inch Maestro 230 LED. As the name might suggest, it's an LED-illuminated LCD display. With a full-HD resolution (1920 x 1080 px), the display boasts of 12,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, 250 cd/m², and response time of 5 ms. It takes input from D-Sub, DVI, and HDMI. Slated for market release in April, the Packard Bell Maestro 230 LED is expected to be priced at €199.

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TAViX · Feb 9, 2011

Good. We wants a 27" please!!!! :nutkick:

brandonwh64 · Feb 9, 2011

wished packard bell was still in the states, i remember my first PC was a packard bell back in 1994

ZoneDymo · Feb 9, 2011

brandonwh64 said:
wished packard bell was still in the states, i remember my first PC was a packard bell back in 1994

Ummm, so why do you wish Packard Bell was still "in the states" ?

brandonwh64 · Feb 9, 2011

ZoneDymo said:
Ummm, so why do you wish Packard Bell was still "in the states" ?

They were a good brand here until they stopped selling in the US

Widjaja · Feb 9, 2011

The Packard Bell machines I have come across were total rubbish.
Then NEC started making them...still total rubbish.

Then they made it even worse by stopping support in the Southern Hemisphere so if drivers were needed we had to scavenge for them elsewhere.

Maybe they will be able to make a come back with these monitors.

mcloughj · Feb 9, 2011

1920 x 1200 or GTFO.

spynoodle · Feb 9, 2011

I hear that Packard Bell is being made by Acer now. Great...... :banghead:

kinkydawg · Feb 9, 2011

yah i remember my packard bell pentium 1 is faster than my uncles pentium 2 :toast:

JATownes · Feb 9, 2011

Packard Bell??? LOL...I thought they vanished a long time ago. Monitor does look nice though.

dir_d · Feb 9, 2011

What a name from the past....I thought that company died lol.

pr0n Inspector · Feb 9, 2011

Packard Bell is a subsidiary of Taiwan-based Acer.
Originally the company produced discount computers in the US and Canada, it later became a leader in the European market.
NEC took it over in the late 1990s.
Acer acquired it in 2008.

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Widjaja · Feb 9, 2011

How can such a rubbish company own eMachines and Packard Bell as well.

They must be making the cash due to the average consumer going.
Wow that's cheap!

v12dock · Feb 9, 2011

Packard Bell... They sold used computer parts :shadedshu

NdMk2o1o · Feb 9, 2011

pr0n Inspector said:
Packard Bell is a subsidiary of Taiwan-based Acer.
Originally the company produced discount computers in the US and Canada, it later became a leader in the European market.
NEC took it over in the late 1990s.
Acer acquired it in 2008.

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Your sig is disturbing to say the least... :wtf:

Widjaja said:
How can such a rubbish company own eMachines and Packard Bell as well.

They must be making the cash due to the average consumer going.
Wow that's cheap!

They sell a shitload of laptops and desktops a year, thats how.

v12dock said:
Packard Bell... They sold used computer parts :shadedshu

Proof? even so, what has that got to do with the monitor and the OP at hand? :rolleyes:

Frick · Feb 9, 2011

NdMk2o1o said:
Your sig is disturbing to say the least...

I actually contacted a moderator about it. Not to get it removed, just to ask what they thought about it. No answer.

Widjaja said:
The Packard Bell machines I have come across were total rubbish.
Then NEC started making them...still total rubbish.

Same here. Total rubbish.

Gjohnst4 · Feb 9, 2011

isn't this is just a re-branded monitor? Acer released it awhile ago, and now they own Packard, and threw their name on it as a new product?

Gjohnst4 · Feb 9, 2011

Acer S243HLbmii Black 24" 2ms(GTG) Full HD LED Ba...

Excuse me, the base is slightly different.

Delta6326 · Feb 9, 2011

sexy, i like the modern stand! lol packard bell never heard of them before my time

PVTCaboose1337 · Feb 9, 2011

Delta6326 said:
sexy, i like the modern stand! lol packard bell never heard of them before my time

I bet they have to counterweight the monitor so it is able to have a center of mass over the correct spot on the stand. In other words, I guarantee this weighs more than it should.

Frick · Feb 9, 2011

PVTCaboose1337 said:
I bet they have to counterweight the monitor so it is able to have a center of mass over the correct spot on the stand. In other words, I guarantee this weighs more than it should.

That's a good thing imo. I like things with weight.

xBruce88x · Feb 10, 2011

wow... that's a name i haven't heard in a while. I remember my packard bell with a bigfoot hdd and win95. had a pretty cool app that animated the desktop icons. 2mb ati chip and 32mb ram... played every game i had at the time. the monitor that came with it was pretty good too

theJesus · Feb 10, 2011

What the heck is going on with that stand? :laugh:

mcloughj said:
1920 x 1200 or GTFO.

2048x1152 or GTFO

makwy2 · Feb 10, 2011

major blast from the past... I never really trusted Packard Bell when they made computers and I don't trust 95% of things made by Acer (or its subsidiaries), so this monitor is (at least) a double fail to me.

hellrazor · Feb 10, 2011

I'm with everybody else that hasn't heard the words "Packard Bell" since before we heard the word "internet".

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