I'm not sure. HP have shown that a premium laptop like the Spectre definitely has a market, which is where Toshiba probably needed to be. They seemed to decid

I'm not sure. HP have shown that a premium laptop like the Spectre definitely has a market, which is where Toshiba probably needed to be. They seemed to decide at some point that they wanted to cover the entire market, including budget offerings like the Satellite right up to the fancy touchscreen, crazy folding half-tablet Ultrabook. The last Satellite I bought all the hinges broke and the screen flaps about (still works though). My wife's old Ultrabook has a cool design idea (screen slides over the keyboard and folds upwards) but all the hinge gubbins are exposed so it looks half-finished when it's open. It has also decided to poop itself when Microsoft send out updates on a semi-regular basis and require booting from a rescue USB. Both of them are ancient though. Their market used to be "I'm doing business but I'm not a developer" types who wanted something reliable and a little stylish and paid a premium for it, so I suspect what happened is too many budget Satellites and not enough interesting thinking like the Ultrabooks.