High failure rate for Toshiba laptops outside warranty?

Flukester said:
im unfortunate enough to be in charge or sourcing and supply of over 50 laptops at work...

over the last 10 years or so been through a lot of different makes and only two stand up to heavy daily use and being lugged about without breaking... tosh and ibm/lenovo. (though HP/Compaq are a close 3rd)

i don't let anyone get any other brand now... purely as they are rock solid and never give me grief, though lenovo get the nod on reliability as just NEVER go wrong, but downside is they look out of the stone age :(

bane of my life though on laptops is where the power socket gets pulled from the motherboard and needs to be resoldered... on some laptops you have to totally strip them to get to it :(
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Seeing this thread kind of made me feel a bit annoyed because I just bought my wife a toshiba l350d laptop which is the first laptop ive ever bought new. It seems to work, apart from vista bawking over the built-in wireless and I had to hunt for a driver. Not impressed with that tbh. Also it doesnt seem as tough as our old ibm thinkpad, that thing is built like a tank lol. We wont be lugging the new laptop about so hopefully it will do its job without failing (touchwood).
 
still working on my toshiba m50 that i have had for 3 years now never had any probs with it and i even changed the hard drive for a 250gb and stuck in 1gb of ram(was 256mb pfft) and still working great, granted it does struggle with some tasks now but for downloading and itunes box its great
 
Farore said:
Tosh quality is generaly poor.
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Toshiba sales are generally very high on the high street but percentage wise on a failure rate they're no worse than any of the other low to mid budget manufacturers. Packard Bell get a bad rap too purely because someone usually knows someone with one and heard a horror story.

Fact is anything can fail but i've never heard of anyone with a Asus or a Dell failing, purely because I don't know anyone that owns one.
 
My brothers dell inspiron had a duff dvd writer, the machine was fine,just the drive went awol and wouldnt read anything except dvdr's. But saying that I was quite impressed with the fact it was 3years old and still looked as new. Seemed very well built :)
 
Laptops dont have much of a life expectancy anyway, so why the hell are oyu all moaning?

Have a look at the bottom or many laptops these days and it says quite clearly that they will warranty it for 12 and some even only 6 months... Says it all to me.
 
FatRakoon said:
Laptops dont have much of a life expectancy anyway, so why the hell are oyu all moaning?

Have a look at the bottom or many laptops these days and it says quite clearly that they will warranty it for 12 and some even only 6 months... Says it all to me.
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nail head, they have become so cheap due to a compettiive market that they are practically disposable these days. cheaper to buy new than mend especially if it requires a mainboard.
 
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