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Pity. Their Satellites were always decent laptops. They were what I used in high school and college. In fact, the last remaining Windows PC in my apartment (th

Pity. Their Satellites were always decent laptops. They were what I used in high school and college. In fact, the last remaining Windows PC in my apartment (the rest are Linux now) is an old Toshiba Qosmio[0] behemoth from 2010 or so running Windows 7. I keep it around for some apps I use on occasion that don't run especially well on WINE. I'm not sure what I'll do when that thing finally dies. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_Qosmio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_Qosmio

curiousgal 8y ago
>I'm not sure what I'll do when that thing finally dies. Dual-boot
- AdmiralAsshat 8y ago
  I'll do a Windows VM before I dual-boot. I frequent the Linux and Fedora sub-reddits and pretty much every other week is someone posting that either a recent kernel update or a recent Windows update trashed their grub menu. Not going through that headache.
  - curiousgal 8y ago
    I definitely had my fair share of those so I don't blame you.
zolthrowaway 8y ago
Although they were big, bulky, laptops I really liked the Satellites. They had pretty good spec to price ratios. I still have a 7 or 8 year old one that is running fine with linux. I have it hooked up to my TV. That laptop helped a broke college graduate start his career. A part of me is very sad to see them go.
htgb 8y ago
Agreed, I wasn't prepared for all the negative comments in this thread. I was a happy user of the Z830 for a long time, until it got stolen. Of course, I did spend a couple hours after the first installation to uninstall bloatware, and upgrading the BIOS, and after a while I installed more RAM… but after that it was a good ultrabook which even had a physical Ethernet port! I also liked the fact that it was 1.4 kg IIRC, and with a battery that lasted all day so I didn't have to bring my charger on the go.
SirYandi 8y ago
Shame indeed. The £200 Toshiba chromebook II I bought 4 years ago is running strong as ever, admittedly running Linux. Still, the battery hasn't degraded much and the build quality has held up. I can't comment on their Windows targeted laptops, but this chromebook is my least regretted purchase so far.
aninteger 8y ago
They were ok laptops. They had a lot of issues with ACPI prompting at least this patch: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14679 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14679 It's sad because Toshiba was credited on the ACPI specification documents so how they messed things up so bad I don't know. To this day, the Toshiba I own currently only works with Windows 7 and Linux. No support for any of the BSDs.
hrktb 8y ago
It always felt like they had good hardware with horrible software. Reinstalling drivers, downgrading or upgrading the OS, debugging issues, anything that crosses what Toshiba was responsible for was a nightmare when I had one, and never heard good things in that area since. Granted most Japanese makers are horrible on the software side, but Toshiba felt specially handicaped in my opinion.

curiousgal 8y ago

>I'm not sure what I'll do when that thing finally dies. Dual-boot

AdmiralAsshat 8y ago
I'll do a Windows VM before I dual-boot. I frequent the Linux and Fedora sub-reddits and pretty much every other week is someone posting that either a recent kernel update or a recent Windows update trashed their grub menu. Not going through that headache.
- curiousgal 8y ago
  I definitely had my fair share of those so I don't blame you.

zolthrowaway 8y ago

Although they were big, bulky, laptops I really liked the Satellites. They had pretty good spec to price ratios. I still have a 7 or 8 year old one that is running fine with linux. I have it hooked up to my TV. That laptop helped a broke college graduate start his career. A part of me is very sad to see them go.

htgb 8y ago

Agreed, I wasn't prepared for all the negative comments in this thread. I was a happy user of the Z830 for a long time, until it got stolen. Of course, I did spend a couple hours after the first installation to uninstall bloatware, and upgrading the BIOS, and after a while I installed more RAM… but after that it was a good ultrabook which even had a physical Ethernet port! I also liked the fact that it was 1.4 kg IIRC, and with a battery that lasted all day so I didn't have to bring my charger on the go.

SirYandi 8y ago

Shame indeed. The £200 Toshiba chromebook II I bought 4 years ago is running strong as ever, admittedly running Linux. Still, the battery hasn't degraded much and the build quality has held up. I can't comment on their Windows targeted laptops, but this chromebook is my least regretted purchase so far.

aninteger 8y ago

They were ok laptops. They had a lot of issues with ACPI prompting at least this patch: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14679 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14679 It's sad because Toshiba was credited on the ACPI specification documents so how they messed things up so bad I don't know. To this day, the Toshiba I own currently only works with Windows 7 and Linux. No support for any of the BSDs.

hrktb 8y ago

It always felt like they had good hardware with horrible software. Reinstalling drivers, downgrading or upgrading the OS, debugging issues, anything that crosses what Toshiba was responsible for was a nightmare when I had one, and never heard good things in that area since. Granted most Japanese makers are horrible on the software side, but Toshiba felt specially handicaped in my opinion.