hi to the interested
Have been the victim of Toshiba quality for the past 4 years. Work for
Govt dept that seems to have a love affair with the company. Sadly the
satelitte series has been a huge disappointment. Recurrent similiar
failures involving video power supplies, and other varied technical
short comings requiring the machines to be shipped back to Sydney for
repair as the local agents not authorised by Toshiba to do repairs.
Okay if you live over east but when you live in the west it means
being without your machine for 2 to 3 weeks. ( Broome to Perth to
Sydney to Perth to Broome) as Toshiba will not receive goods or send
goods directly to the client. Indeed with 2 of the machines they
travelled to Sydney twice to have the same problem fixed. can't
comment on the 2003 or 04 versions as we won't be touching Toshiba
again.
So for after sales service I would give Toshiba a big fat Egg.
And for quality of product regardless of price the old adage is true
you get what you pay for (almost) ;o).
End of Spleen venting..
Lindsay
On Tuesday, February 10, 2004, at 10:56 AM, Mark Secker wrote:
<snip>
I believe Toshiba is now making a 17" notebook - Satellite P20. I
haven't
really compared the specs to the Mac but I know it doesn't ship with
<snip>
I will stress to the customer that only quality PC laptop
manufacturers can be compared with apples.
Apples and oranges you see.
<snip>
and unfortunately I don't consider Toshiba's to be automatically
considered as a "quality PC laptop manufacturer" some models yes some
models no... buy with caution and only after a hands on
and remember _if_ a key point is that prospective buyer wants to
transport it frequently the 17" models of all brands may fail due to
weight. I haven't seen/picked up Sony's but the Toshiba is SERIOUSLY
HEAVY!
for this reason my next laptop will be a 12" iBook or PowerBook
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