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That's too bad. I had toshiba laptop from 2008-2014 or 2015 or so. It was probably my longest lasting and hardest treated one. That thing carried me all through

That's too bad. I had toshiba laptop from 2008-2014 or 2015 or so. It was probably my longest lasting and hardest treated one. That thing carried me all through school, travelled to yellowstone and all around BC, was taken to camp sites and used during field work. I regularly threw it in a backpack with no case or anything packed in with a bunch of stuff and carried it well over a few hundred km over the years like that. I'm still not sure exactly what's wrong with it. The original hard drive ended up with a corrupted MBR, then the replacement drive i put in ended up with the same thing within a day. I just ended up retiring it and getting a new one. Though for a while though i was keeping that thing on life support by running a linux distro partitioned across 4 usb flash drives just so i could keep using it for a bit longer. I managed to recover everything off the drives that way too. By comparison, the acer i replaced it with ended up needing a screen replacement within 2 years and that thing just pretty much hung out at home.

keanebean86 6y ago
I got a ~$250 Toshiba in 2012 for college. I added a small SSD and 4GBs ram so maybe $350 total. A few years later I replaced the CD drive with a hard drive since the SSD filled up pretty quick. I still use it daily 8 years later. My only complaint is the cheap plastic case has deteriorated so it's partially held together by tape now. I also had to replace the screen hinges a few years ago. But compared to the Acer before it (2008 bad Nvidia GPU) and my wife's trash HP laptop the Toshiba has been worth every penny.
Crazyontap 6y ago
Same experience here. Those laptops have been really reliable. A shitty courier company apparently loaded a fridge over one corner of my laptop while transporting it (don't ask why or how it happened) and the end result was the laptop broke at the corner (imagine loading 200kg on side of a fibre glass plate). Long story short the hinge popped off, the laptop's display bottom totally teared up and yet lo and behold it's still working since the last 5 years. It looks like a Frankenstein laptop but it works flawlessly and never has given me any issues. My asus laptop on the other hand.. :/
yread 6y ago
I have a toshiba laptop from 98 that still runs!

keanebean86 6y ago

I got a ~$250 Toshiba in 2012 for college. I added a small SSD and 4GBs ram so maybe $350 total. A few years later I replaced the CD drive with a hard drive since the SSD filled up pretty quick. I still use it daily 8 years later. My only complaint is the cheap plastic case has deteriorated so it's partially held together by tape now. I also had to replace the screen hinges a few years ago. But compared to the Acer before it (2008 bad Nvidia GPU) and my wife's trash HP laptop the Toshiba has been worth every penny.

Crazyontap 6y ago

Same experience here. Those laptops have been really reliable. A shitty courier company apparently loaded a fridge over one corner of my laptop while transporting it (don't ask why or how it happened) and the end result was the laptop broke at the corner (imagine loading 200kg on side of a fibre glass plate). Long story short the hinge popped off, the laptop's display bottom totally teared up and yet lo and behold it's still working since the last 5 years. It looks like a Frankenstein laptop but it works flawlessly and never has given me any issues. My asus laptop on the other hand.. :/

yread 6y ago

I have a toshiba laptop from 98 that still runs!