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Toshiba in Trouble

posted by takyon on Sunday December 27 2015, @07:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the tortshiba dept.

After the big accounting scandal that came to light earlier this year, now they have announced ~7000 layoffs at Toshiba, mostly in Japan, but some worldwide.

http://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2015-12-21/scandal-hit-toshiba-cuts-jobs-sells-plant-projects-red-ink

This article says that the PC division will continue. Another source suggests that the PC division may be sold off. Anyone want to speculate about potential buyers?

Also at BBC, NYT.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday December 28 2015, @01:45AM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Monday December 28 2015, @01:45AM (#281566) Journal

    offer media players in a "dumb OS" mode in the BIOS without having to boot into the OS.

    Never heard of or used this feature on any laptop.

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  • (Score: 1) by Wierd0n3 on Monday December 28 2015, @06:37AM

    by Wierd0n3 (1033) on Monday December 28 2015, @06:37AM (#281620)

    mid to late 90's the laptop manufacturers added a option to play CD's and DVD's OS-free. the media controls were placed along the front edge, so that you could play a cd without opening the lid. Likewise, the speakers were placed along the hinge, or below the laptop, so the sound wouldn't worsen if playing with the lid closed.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 28 2015, @06:37AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 28 2015, @06:37AM (#281621)

    The OS-in-firmware thing? [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [wikipedia.org]

    ...or a media player inside that, specifically?
    (Don't know about the latter.)

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  • (Score: 2) by Daiv on Monday December 28 2015, @07:40PM

    by Daiv (3940) on Monday December 28 2015, @07:40PM (#281796)

    Lookup the Toshiba Satellite 1800/1805 series. I still own an 1805-S207 and it's fully working. Exposed media buttons with the lid shut would eject the CD drive and allow you to play music CD's with the OS completely shut down. In the early 00's this was pretty handy as I was in college so my laptop doubled as my stereo CD player.