Comments on: Toshiba laptop opinions?

By: bill

bill — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:12:43 +0000

iv had sooooooo meny computers but they all gotten problem after the first 5 months but i had my tashiba for over 8 months with no probs, so tgake thes cookies

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By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:21:20 +0000

Faried: Because the thing about spending $500 on a refurb laptop is that you're going to get something obsolete. Of the options, I want Centrino and not P4M, which in that era was hot and battery-hungry.

By: Faried Nawaz

Faried Nawaz — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:29:21 +0000

Why a Centrino? It’s pretty much an obsolete architecture.

By: mandoman

mandoman — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 07:15:38 +0000

the newer toshiba models like tecra a8 and satellite pro a120 (i think) are definitely worth considering. not only does toshiba claim that they have much better quality and durability, but they are backing it up in many countries with a moneyback guarantee. you get your moneyback and can keep the laptop.

By: Brian Enigma

Brian Enigma — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:48:32 +0000

I had a Tecra Pro back when 600MHz was fast and 800MHz was the top of the line. Aside from the PowerBook I have now, it was the best darn laptop I had. Linux loved it, including the normally difficult things like video and wireless. I had the snazzy on-site warranty (it was about $300 extra, as I recall), but only had to use it once, for a hard drive issue, and the repair guy basically replaced everything else that he could, just in case. By comparison, I had a ThinkPad T-something as a work laptop at about the same time, and kept blowing through hard drives and motherboards. The PowerBook’s backlight power transformer blew out about a year ago (after 2.9 years of use), and should have been easily replaced (again: extended warranty), but they had a parts shortage that was going to last an unknown amount of time, so they gave me a new laptop (a 1.6GHz for the 1.0GHz I originally brought in.) I’ve never had a Dell (laptop or otherwise), but do know that their desktops are very modular and quite easy to work on.

By: gcrumb

gcrumb — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:36:21 +0000

Toshibas are one of the favoured brands here in Vanuatu and the Solomons. So if the ability to survive tropical heat, earthquakes, microscopic ants, humidity, bad power and centipedes is any metric, then by all means go for it. 8^)

By: Roy

Roy — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:36:56 +0000

I ordered several Toshiba laptops at a previous job (2.5 years ago or so) and they all had hardware issues. Seriously. All 6 or 7 of them, all slightly different problems.

By: pisceandreamer/Cindy

pisceandreamer/Cindy — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:58:55 +0000

I’ve got a Toshiba Satelitte P35-S605, and I’ve been pretty happy with it – only problem has been the DVD drive crapped out, but that wasn’t a bad fix.

By: Fweebles

Fweebles — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:19:08 +0000

Well, I’ve already made my comments to you on Toshibas, but just for the record, I really like the Satellite I have now. Totally not the same as the Tecra, but I like it. It’s solid (and heavy, but to be expected with a big widescreen laptop) and I’ve never had a problem with it.

Apart from the previously-mentioned heat issue. :)