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on Tuesday August 11 2020, @02:13AM
from the to-shiba-or-not-to-shiba?-now-we-know dept.
from the to-shiba-or-not-to-shiba?-now-we-know dept.
BBC:
The Japanese giant Toshiba has sold its final stake in the personal computer maker Dynabook.
It means the firm no longer has a connection with making PCs or laptops.
Sharp bought 80% of Toshiba's personal computing arm in 2018 for $36m (£27m), and has now bought the remaining shares, Toshiba said in a statement.
Toshiba's first laptop, the T1100, launched in 1985. It weighed 4kg (8.8 pounds) and worked with 3.5 inch (8.8cm) floppy disks.
How much will Toshiba's departure from the laptop market be mourned?
Additional Coverage:
Toshiba is officially out of the laptop business
Goodbye Toshiba Laptops. It's Been Good Knowing Ya
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday August 11 2020, @02:34AM (6 children)
Finally - since 1991 Toshiba has been screwing up my life with their custom solutions to everything in their laptop systems. Oh, you expect COM1 to be at this address? Well, we don't really have a COM1, what we have is COM7, 8, and 9 at these addresses which we map back to COM1 through this proprietary connection that incidentally sends your serial port reading code all screwy - you'll need a special configuration to set the address for our laptops - no other PCs or laptops anywhere in the world, just Toshiba.
The same general theme continued even through the early 2010s I was seeing "custom" things that meant that code that ran everywhere else would stumble on Toshiba laptops.
I like to continue to remember and point out that Toshiba also leaked silent submarine propeller tech to the Russians during the height of the Cold war - no small shift in the balance of power at the time, and on a much more personally affecting note: sold me a crappy cassette player which died within 9 months and had the most annoying factory service protocol I have ever encountered - which basically amounted to 4 trips to the tech shop only to finally be given the dead player back with a shrug and no further satisfaction under warranty.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday August 11 2020, @03:12AM
We had one Toshiba laptop at my last company.
I can't remember why we only had one, or what was wrong with it, but even though I eventually managed to pump it full of RAM (maybe 2 GBs?)* in an effort to get someone to take it off my hands, everytime I gave it to an user they complained about it and it came back.
I have a funny feeling it might have had a proper 1920 x 1080 screen too. Still was universally hated.
* This would be 2006 maybe.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Tuesday August 11 2020, @04:10AM (4 children)
I think the only Toshiba laptop I've ever dealt with was a friend's wife's Satellite. I mostly remember that the cheesy plastic hinges had broken. It ran Vista, and I don't remember what other problems she had.
> ...Toshiba also leaked silent submarine propeller tech to the Russians...
I remember that well. I remember some politicians did a publicity stunt where they smashed some Toshiba products with sledgehammers. They should have smashed each other for allowing Toshiba access to such critical information in the first place.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday August 11 2020, @04:15AM (1 child)
Those custom implementation were generally supporting "special features" that mainstream laptops didn't have. Doctors loved the Toshiba laptops because they ticked off some boxes on a feature list that others didn't - nevermind that those extra features were useless... they had them, so they must have been better, right?
Doctors are universally some of the dumbest smart people I know.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @08:28AM
Sounds like Apple products.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday August 11 2020, @07:01PM (1 child)
What a coincidence my Toshiba Satellite also had broken hinges. They broke rather quickly, actually.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by RS3 on Wednesday August 12 2020, @02:37AM
I was considering epoxying a cabinet hinge onto the thing for the win but friend's wife didn't like the idea. She'd rather prop it up with something.