OT: Toshiba laptops - reliability and build quality

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--- Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 
> Well intel CPU and chipset gives decent chance of Linux support.  2GB
> ram is nice.  200GB HD is impresive for a laptop.  15.4" 1280x800 is
> quite common.  2.72kg is rather good for something with a 15.4" screen
> and a claimed 4 hour battery life.  All for $1000 is actually a pretty
> good deal by the looks of it.  It also appears to be out of stock at
> most futureshop locations (although not all).

My thoughts exactly... and it includes a Core 2 Duo CPU (not the older Pentium Dual
Core or Core Duo CPUs). And the built-in Intel wireless card appears to be Linux
compatible (via MadWifi). It's a pretty decent looking unit too but that's highly
subjective of course. This Toshiba A200-AH9 is available at a few Future Shop
locations in Scarborough but for some reason is showing as OOS (out of stock) on
their website.

> 
> Well I have in the past gotten a Compaq (HP) laptop at FutureShop.  From
> it I have learned that consumer laptops from brand names are pretty much
> junk and I will never buy another one.
> 

Good to know. From what I've seen at Future Shop, I am not convinced of any of the
brand names' reliability. The Acer laptops looked decent but FS isn't carrying very
many Acer models.

> 
> On the other hand the Toshiba can't possibly be
> worse than the HP/Compaq models in quality.  If you expect it to last
> more than 2 to 3 years, you should probably go buy something meant for
> business users instead, or maybe a Mac.
> 

I am leaning towards Dell at the moment. For around $1050.00 before taxes I can get
a similar or better spec-ed system compared to the Toshiba model that I was so
interested in before.

Cheers,



Salman Ahmed


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