R.I.P, my trusty Toshiba

[mr__ed]

Well, my Toshiba laptop passed away suddenly the other day. Couldn't turn it on, yet worked fine day before. Probably a bad mother board. Over the years, I've only owned Toshibas since I found them to be pretty reliable. Well, it seems Toshiba isn't in the computer business any more.
So I just purchased an HP model with 17" screen. It's the same size and weight as my Toshiba. So far, she's working pretty good. I got it at Office Depot for $429.99 + tax. It was on sale. If I recall, my Toshiba was somewhere between $6-700. So I hope I get as good usage from the HP as I did with my old friend. 🙂

[mr__ed]

zigzagrv wrote:
Bought my Toshiba Satellite laptop in 2004. Still use it today mainly for Delorme Street Atlas for trip planning and navigating. It's a nice, big GPS. Replaced battery once and repaired power plug. Of course, running Windows XP, you can't do a lot with it because of IE. However, works pretty good with Firefox.

When my laptop does what you describe, I remove battery for a while, reinsert and it's back in operation.

My original Toshiba, quite a few years old, also ran XP. It came with a recovery disc, so I reinstalled the whole OS and sold it a few years ago when I went to Windows 8 (now 10). At times, I wish I'd kept it. Could have used it for other purposes.

[zigzagrv]

Bought my Toshiba Satellite laptop in 2004. Still use it today mainly for Delorme Street Atlas for trip planning and navigating. It's a nice, big GPS. Replaced battery once and repaired power plug. Of course, running Windows XP, you can't do a lot with it because of IE. However, works pretty good with Firefox.

When my laptop does what you describe, I remove battery for a while, reinsert and it's back in operation.

[MrWizard]

my current laptop i've had several years is an HP 17"
i've had it long enough it has win 8.1 not win 10

[mr__ed]

esyers wrote:
Toshiba isn't in the business anymore??

Toshiba Website

Interesting. I had a difficult time finding a local supplier and was told by some that Toshiba wasn't manufacturing laptops any more. Guess they were wrong. Anyhow, I'm now an HP man. I hope our relationship will be as satisfying as it was with my Toshiba.

[wa8yxm]

Remove Battery, Remove A/C adapter plug from Computer

Sit on the power switch for like a minute

Restore battery
Restore adapter plug

Try again

If it works Decide if you need to buy lotto tickets cause when you hot you hot or if you need to avoid lotto tickets cause you done used your ration of LUCK for the week. }

And as always if it does not work your FREE is hearby cheerfully refunded 🙂

My Trusty Tosh is now 5 years old and is sitting under the HP chrome book this is typed on.

IN the time it takes to TURN on the Tosh (Windows 10) I can take a Chrome book out of the box and if I've got good fast 5 Gig Wi-Fi have it fully set up with all my bookmarks and applications before I'm ready to open the browser on the Tosh.. I'm spoiled

But the HP's don't have a lot of storage nor any "Productavity" apps other than Google _____ which are all on line things.

The Tosh does logging and runs a bunch of stuff Chrome won't.

[esyers]

Toshiba isn't in the business anymore??

Toshiba Website

[donn0128]

Sadly Im done with Windows based anything. Many folks like Win10, but Im not a fan, so Im switching to Android based tablets. Now days they can do 99.5% of what windows do without the hassle of dealing with Microsoft.

[mat60]

Nothing like a new lap top. My last was a Toshiba and I got 6 years out of it and now I have a Dell only because it was on sale. Enjoy your new HP Mr Ed.