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Mark Chisholm

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I just opened a letter telling me about a class action settlement that I am entitled to. It is regarding my Toshiba laptop. It seems that they are offering a settlement with options to people with my model. The problems are that it has times where it shuts down unexpectedly and will run kinda slow - both from overheating. They claim that it is a design flaw. Who knew?

Anyway, the options are:

1) $1000.00 cash and returning my laptop.
2) $1,500.00 voucher for a new Toshiba and return my laptop
3) $500.00 and keep my laptop

What do you think I should choose?
 
#1, take the money and spend it on booze and hookers.

see what they are selling for on ebay. It may be profitable to take the $500 and try to move it on ebay. Not morally correct, but who has those anymore anyway?
 
I'd take the 1500 credit. It's always nice to upgrade computer equipment. 1500 will go a long way. Maybe toshiba makes a Tablet!

http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/cmod.to?coid=-26373&sel=0&rcid=-26367&ccid=1291021&seg=HHO&sel=1

I was close to getting a tablet pc when I bought my current laptop. Then I thought about it for a while and decided the best thing it had going for it is what I call CF....coolness factor. It was cool, but I just didn't see how it's features warranted the extra expense. It didn't really make things much faster, in my eyes.

Do you have probs with your computer now?

love
nick
 
Mark-

If toshiba makes one that you like I would take the $1,500.00, otherwise take the $1,000.00. You can get a really nice laptop for that kind of money. I agree with Nick on the tablet. They are cool, but real pricey and who knows how long it will be before they are worthy of the cost. If you want to write stuff out just by a PALM (Generic term for all the handhelds) and then download to your laptop later. They have great software for doing it already and it isn't as cumbersome as a tablet to carry around.

Brian
 
who wants to write? Typing is waaaay faster.

I have to give Dell some props. I picked up one a while back, had my son dump a glass of water into the keyboard which fried the motherboard, the video card, and the keyboard. I called Dell, they priority posted me a box with foam inside, I put the laptop into it and mailed it on a Thursday evening. I never tried to hide what happened to it so I figured it would cost a bit to get fixed. The next Monday at 1 pm I got it back with a note saying what they had fixed and thanks for buying a dell.

Class act

Dave
 
Brian,

Thanks. I was thinking similar to what you say. I have a HP Pocket PC so I guess that is good enough.

Ryan,
Satellite 5005 s504 . There's another Sat mentioned too.

Dave,
That sounds like a class act. Dell has been said to be great and horrible depending. Customer service will sell one for me personally. My Dad just got a Dell lap for himself and a Dell for the office.

Nick,
I was thinking about the drawing ability mostly. I was thinking about the ability to doodlke some tree stuff and then use it in digital forms. Also thought that it might be a good thing for my PowerPoint presentations?
 
I second what Dave said.

My wife and I just bought a Dell (in December) and so far it has been great. It's a Dimension 8400 with a 19 inch flat screen monitor. It's been fast and clean with the things that I have done so far.

The customer support has been great too. We purchased their 'HelpDesk' and they have been quick to answer the phone and in no hurry to hang up until all of our questions have been answered.

As far as the options on the Toshiba I'd choose either #1 or #2 depending on any other experience with Toshiba computers and service. Why keep a laptop that gives you problems when there are good options to get something better?

Mahk
 
go #2.

get the money, sell the Toshiba, get more, then buy a Macintosh PowerBook 17" or 15" incher. much more worth the money.

or, if you want to save, get the new Mac mini, plus the new sony 17" XBrite panel monitor for $390. much more tech foryou Buck.
 
Nick,

I was thinking about Adobe stuff, but the Tablet would allow me to draw during a presentation (I think?). That's what was interesting to me. Toshiba makes Tabs and also has one heck of a AV entertainment computer. I need to do some more research before I decide.
 
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You get what you pay for Mark. Why a Toshiba, guess next you're gonna say you went out and bought a Poulan! /forum/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

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You threatening me? /forum/images/graemlins/nono.gif

That's true ( and funny). I just ended up with getting a great price for what was offered in this model about two or three years ago. It's time to move on, but I may go with another one.
 
For those with dells... I recently formatted my hard drive and reinstalled everything from scratch. What a difference! My machine runs faster and I get a longer battery life than I did before. I guess dell installs a lot of extra crap in their computers.

Not a task for the faint of heart though. I had to backup my docs with 8 dvd+r's at 4 gigs each!
 
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Not a task for the faint of heart though. I had to backup my docs with 8 dvd+r's at 4 gigs each!

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That is one reason I have 3 hard drives in my desktop. I keep programs on one, data on another and the third I use to back up data and programs.

So I don't reformat a drive until I have the system working on another drive.....then I reformat. It eases that gut wrenching feeling......

Dan Nelson
 
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