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Toshiba Satellite

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(thing) by Protector of Mankind (1.6 wk) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Fri May 19 2000 at 14:53:15

The Toshiba Satellite is Toshiba laptop computer line. Many of the models are full of hardware bugs which make them a pain to use and support. The Satellite 4060xcdt actually has a reset button by the power button because of the fact it does not shut down properly out of Windows, especially while running on a network. The model before the 4060 was so brutal at shut down we had to give our users small screw drivers to remove the memory to shut them down.

(thing) by saintjimb (7.8 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Wed Sep 20 2000 at 16:18:37

I own a Toshiba Satellite 2535 CDS laptop. Its not a bad system, especially for the money I paid. However, it does have one major flaw that I can't seem to track down. The passive matrix screen seems to be divided in half horizontally, with the top being lighter than the bottom by a noticable amount. Some people say its in the nature of a passive matrix LCD. I find it hard to believe them. In any case, I am stuck with it because I refuse to dump the kind of money into it needed to replace the screen. It is only mildly annoying, but worth mentioning, I think. Can anyone tell me if this is, indeed, a result of the passive screen, or a flaw in Toshiba's design?

On the plus side for this laptop, it runs Red Hat Linux like a champ, and the installation was not at all the Hell I was told to expect when putting Linux on a portable.

I guess with one vote for chump and one for champ, I would have to average them and call this particular model average.


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