Budget-Lover's Laptop -Toshiba

Sathesh Sakthivel

Toshiba has launched new Satellite P-Series and A-Series laptop models, including one 17-inch laptop for under $1,000. Laptop[^]

Regards, Satips.

Nish Nishant

Every time I see a low-priced laptop, the first thing I look at is the specs. And then I realize that buying it would be a bigger financial loss than if I spend more money and bought a decent faster laptop with better processing power and enough RAM.

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Sathesh Sakthivel

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

Every time I see a low-priced laptop, the first thing I look at is the specs. And then I realize that buying it would be a bigger financial loss than if I spend more money and bought a decent faster laptop with better processing power and enough RAM.

I too Agree Nish.

Regards, Satips.

Aaron VanWieren

I refuse to ever buy a Toshiba again. Couple of years ago I purchased one and a year later, minutes after the year warranty wore off the hard drive and the cd drive went caplooey. Called Toshiba and they informed me that the warranty was invalid as it was an hour after the warranty deadline and that I would have to pay them 250 bucks just to look at the thing. Unfortunately this model was not openable beyond the manufacture(trust me I tried) to work on it myself. Since then, I have vowed never to own another Toshiba. My 5cents worth. PS. If you are interested that broken piece of junk is still sitting in my closet.

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Vikram A Punathambekar

Nish, Nish, Nish, when will you realize that a developer typically cannot use a low-budget laptop? :) This kind of stuff will be useful for students or other casual users, but you (or even I) certainly aren't in their target market. I have to admit the specs look good for the price, when you convert to INR. I have no idea of whether it's good as far as the USD price goes.

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daniilzol

Your own fault for not reading terms correctly. For the record (at least last time I checked), budget Toshiba laptops carry only one year warranty, however their corporate Tecra lineup has 3 year warranty which is nothing to sneeze at. They also have 24x7 customer hotline in the US. They advertised one year warranty, and they held to the end of their bargain. It is unfortunate that your HDD and ODD died, but in this case you got nobody to blame but yourself. PS I don't know what to make off your 'hour after the warranty deadline' thing. Did you really check your receipt and knew that it was exactly one hour after deadline? I also find it very odd that both your HDD and ODD chose to die right and I mean right after your warranty expired.

Nish Nishant

Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

This kind of stuff will be useful for students or other casual users, but you (or even I) certainly aren't in their target market.

Yeah, good point. But I think that even students shouldn't buy slow outdated machines. But from a purely-budget-oriented view, yeah this makes sense.

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Aaron VanWieren

JazzJackRabbit wrote:

PS I don't know what to make off your 'hour after the warranty deadline' thing. Did you really check your receipt and knew that it was exactly one hour after deadline? I also find it very odd that both your HDD and ODD chose to die right and I mean right after your warranty expired.

Yes I did, the hard drive went so I pulled the receipt. It was within an hour of the warranty period exactly. Just an odd coincidence actually. I have recently purchased an Acer and have found few to none complaints and problems with it. Toshiba just left a bad taste in my mouth. On the phone with them they kept reiterating that my warranty was null as the time had expired. They were fairly rude about it. I understand they were in the right of the terms, it just irked me that both pieces failed just after my warranty expired.

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leckey 0

Can I interest you in a Gateway? :laugh:

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Aaron VanWieren

Those were some of the worst laptops ever made. Yuck... Leaves a bad taste in ones mouth.:laugh: X|

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leckey 0

The ones I've used recently are pretty good. I like my work one much better than my home HP. (I bought the HP before I started working for Gateway. I feel guilty now.)

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Flynn Arrowstarr Regular Schmoe

Not a fan of the M275 tablet PC (we purchased several at work), but I've generally been underwhelmed by Tablet PCs in general. For instance, one set of Tablet PCs we invested in (not Gateway) used 1.8" hard drives to save system weight and size. Let's just say 1.8" hard drives aren't quite up to day-to-day usage yet. We've had more drive failures on those units than any other notebook or desktop line. *sigh* Flynn

Dan Neely

Flynn Arrowstarr wrote:

Let's just say 1.8" hard drives aren't quite up to day-to-day usage yet.

How so? I'd imagine the read load from iPod drives is much heavier than a PC assuming it has enough ram to avoid the swapfile. Is writing to the HD that much more stressful on hardware?

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Flynn Arrowstarr Regular Schmoe

Most of these systems came with 1 gb of ram, but even without using the tablet features the hard drives were constantly running. Not to mention these units were on the road a lot. So they were more victims of poor design and rough abuse rather than just a failure on the 1.8" hard drives in general. Though it seems like the other tablets we have (the M275 and a couple other brands) with the 2.5" notebooks didn't have the same failure rates that we had with the 1.8" drives -- even with the same level of abuse. The load on an iPod drive isn't too bad unless you're playing video (when the drive is constantly running). I don't remember how much onboard memory it has, but it's on standby except for a short period of activity between songs (album artwork takes longer to load than most songs, heh). Even with 10 - 20 minute songs (Inna Godda Da Vida anyone?) I've never heard the drive access during a song. Flynn

Dan Neely

Flynn Arrowstarr wrote:

Most of these systems came with 1 gb of ram, but even without using the tablet features the hard drives were constantly running.

What exactly were you running on them. For casual use (web, email, office, etc) I have a hard time pushing the 1 gig limit, never mind getting far enough over that the swap file was resulting in heavy disk activity.

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Flynn Arrowstarr Regular Schmoe

They are used for health and medical assessments with the tablet OS needed for digital signitures. Despite having better overall specs than the Gateways, they have some severe bottlenecks in memory and hard drive speeds. We're replacing them with a model that closer approaches our standard notebooks with 7200 rpm drives and 2 gb of ram. :) Flynn

Lost User

My Acer cost $750 and it has comparable specs and its built well. I can access the memory and proceeor without having to dismantal the entire thing. I'm thinking about bumping the memory up to 2gb. That would cost me about $130.

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