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Toshiba was fucking HUGE in the 1990s. I had a couple back in those days. They were good machines for the time. Then IBM became king with the ThinkPad.
by ubermonkey 6y ago
Toshiba was fucking HUGE in the 1990s. I had a couple back in those days. They were good machines for the time.
Then IBM became king with the ThinkPad.
- danielscrubs 6y agoThey where awful. Build quality was shoddy, bad touchpad and fan noise through the roof.
- ubermonkey 6y agoYou're saying they were awful in the mid 90s, or they became awful later? Because the machines I had in '96 or so were solid.
- danielscrubs 6y agoAwful in 2005
- hyperpl 6y agoAt least personally, I always considered Toshiba laptops to be the bottom of the barrel in terms of quality. I don't recall a time when thinkpad (at least before Lenovo bought them) could have been considered inferior?
- megablast 6y agoToshiba went to shit, but in the early days they were at the top.
- chaoticmass 6y agoThey were quite good in the early to mid 90's but by 2000 and onward they were pretty bad as far as quality. I worked in a computer store that did also did repair and there were a few problems you'd always see on Toshibas: power button failure (ribbon cable on the inside would get damaged or just come loose) and power connector failures (the barrel connector would come unsoldered on the inside).
- VectorLock 6y agoThose ThinkPads might be the best thing IBM made since the IBM PC.