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Wintel Junk - (was desktop-replacement notebooks)

2004-10-06 by Peter Nelson

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Joe Dempsey" 
<jdempsey@c...> wrote:
> If you shop around, you can get a good deal. I got the 
> Toshiba for 1,800 at BestBuy and financed for 12 months 
> with no interest.

After our experience withu Toshiba we have no interest in it either.

In July we bought a Toshiba Satellite which hangs at random while any 
USB device is attached to it.  We've wiped the disk and reinstalled 
from the CD-ROM; we sent it back to Toshiba where they upgraded the 
BIOS at the factory, but still no luck, and Toshiba has no clue what 
to do next.  Since it only happens at random, several times a day, 
it's hard to reproduce.    On top of that, after installing XP SP2 we 
now get occasional BSD's, something we didn't have before.  

This is my first experience with Toshiba, and it certainly gives me 
the impression it's a piece of $#!+.   On the other hand, as a 
software engineer who writes C++ for Win32, I could tell you horror 
stories about what's inside the Windows OS.    Frankly I'm amazed it 
works at all!

If I had it to do all over again I would get an Apple notebook.   
Wintel is just too flakey and unreliable.

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