Toshiba laptops?

**filburt1** · Apr 17th, 2002, 11:04 AM

Anybody have any personal experiences with them?

**filburt1** · Apr 17th, 2002, 05:12 PM

Hmm...I've read reviews that the speakers suck (enter Earphones

) and that the hard drive clicks repeatedly...Satellite 3005-S307 this one is that I'm looking at...anybody at all?

**Gandalf_Grey_** · Apr 17th, 2002, 05:19 PM

my teacher has a toshiba and my nieghbour too, they are both really happy with them

**Beacon** · Apr 17th, 2002, 07:41 PM

We have heaps of them here some ranging from 1992 and they all still work fine.

We take them into the middle africa and have never had a problem.
Though we dont have any of that model mostly the latest Satellite Pro's forget the number.
We've had them fall from aircraft luggage holds to Komatsu trucks and still work like magic.

No i've never noticed lots of hard drive clicking no more than other comuter anyways.
Speakers well we never really used them for that but they where alright for laptop speakers.
Just plug some bigger ones in!

Ohh good tip if you put your coffee next to the heat sink and run lots of cd's it'll keep it warm for an extra 30mins or so.

**sail3005** · Apr 17th, 2002, 07:51 PM

we have them at our school. they are the only good computers we have there!

**Beacon** · Apr 17th, 2002, 08:00 PM

Filly:

2-3 year warranty!

I would almost guarantee you if i could that your best choice is Toshiba!

**JungleMan** · Apr 17th, 2002, 08:05 PM

Yep I agree with Beaker for once

Dell laptops arent bad either. my friend has one and it kicks some ass!

**filburt1** · Apr 17th, 2002, 08:08 PM

Originally posted by jpbtennisman
Yep I agree with Beaker for once

Dell laptops arent bad either. my friend has one and it kicks some ass!

That would be my second choice over the Toshiba, mainly because of price: I'd have to pay ~$200 more, plus shipping to get a Dell, while the Toshiba is at CompUSA at normal MSRP.

**JungleMan** · Apr 17th, 2002, 08:15 PM

Originally posted by filburt1

That would be my second choice over the Toshiba, mainly because of price: I'd have to pay ~$200 more, plus shipping to get a Dell, while the Toshiba is at CompUSA at normal MSRP.

OK good so go with teh toshiba

**sail3005** · Apr 17th, 2002, 08:15 PM

i'd get the toshiba. save some money

**filburt1** · Apr 17th, 2002, 08:17 PM

Originally posted by jpbtennisman

OK good so go with teh toshiba

Now we play the waiting game until May 30...

**Beacon** · Apr 17th, 2002, 08:22 PM

wow justin agreed with me!

*takes note of date*

**filburt1** · Apr 17th, 2002, 08:24 PM

One thing I noticed though is that the Tosh only comes with a 1-year warrantee...should I fork up the $200-$300 more for a 3-year? At that point the Tosh and the Dell would be tied.

Matt.Net · Apr 18th, 2002, 12:42 AM

my first lappie was a Toshiba

Pentium 120

16 mb RAM

it was a beauty, top-class

**Beacon** · Apr 18th, 2002, 01:27 AM

Brand new?

If you were a company i'd say yes!

Home user i'd tend to say unless this is going to be you main computer and do a lot of heavy travel. I mean like planes etc and a lot of battery use then i'd say no.

But if you have the money then fine!

**Muddy** · Apr 18th, 2002, 11:54 AM

Satellite 3000 is a good machine for the money overall

Some pluses (no particular order):

FIREWIRE! (a few of them)
multiple USB outlets in side and back
small, thin, and light

Some gripes (no particular order):

2 choiced for diplay res - big and small

doesnt always recognized that a CD or DVD is in the drive .. have to reboot

clip thing that holds the monitor down breaks off easily

Dont lose the ac adaptor! It is nonstandard and very hard and expensive to find a replacement.

All these experienced on 2 different machines ...

**Pix** · Apr 18th, 2002, 09:04 PM

I've had no problems with my Toshiba laptop, bit bulky though

BG · Apr 19th, 2002, 12:52 PM

My 486 Toshiba Laptop still works. Just a bit of useless info to toss in.

**filburt1** · Apr 19th, 2002, 01:13 PM

Cool...anybody have problems with their hard drive frequently clicking for no reason?

BG · Apr 19th, 2002, 01:14 PM

Nope

**Muddy** · Apr 19th, 2002, 02:04 PM

Originally posted by filburt1
Cool...anybody have problems with their hard drive frequently clicking for no reason?

I have heard this on 2 machines ... both the HD, fan and CD/DVD seem abnormally noisy ... HD definitly makes clicking noise.

I did lose the HD kinda out of the blue ... ran some recovery software and it didnt find anything ... formatted and came back up fine.

**filburt1** · Apr 19th, 2002, 02:06 PM

My dad's laptop at work P2-300 does it sometimes...I'm not particurally worried about general noise (with the system I plan to get it will need cooling, GF2Go/PIII and all). You just reformatted and the problem went away?

**filburt1** · Apr 19th, 2002, 03:00 PM

Well goody good, I'm going to CompUSA to get a printer cable and conveniently to check out the lappy

**Muddy** · Apr 19th, 2002, 09:17 PM

Originally posted by filburt1
My dad's laptop at work P2-300 does it sometimes...I'm not particurally worried about general noise (with the system I plan to get it will need cooling, GF2Go/PIII and all). You just reformatted and the problem went away?

actually i have reformatted twice.

the first time i had complaints about some ethernet cable, rebooted and it came up fine. Got this error intermittently for a few boots, then just wouldnt boot at all (blinking cursor).

second format was because my ethernet adapter wouldnt work and after a trying a couple of zillion things I gave up and reformatted (I really wanted to implement multi boot anyway).

Also I forgot to mention that batteries are crap on the 2 Satellite 3000 that I have experience with. One only works for 5 minutes now (4 months old) and the other only charges to around 80% .

Considering the price I paid, I am happy with the machine though. The HD problems have actually helped me in that I have a stricter back-up discipline these days

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