Never Buy Compaq or Toshiba Products

•November 23, 2006 • Leave a Comment

I’m sure many of you have heard about my comcrap laptop with toshitba parts before.  Previously I have talked about how it came with PC2100 RAM (with a 64-bit AMD processor and 800MHZ bus), how the DVD burner the Toshiba ODD SD-R6252 was seriously picked up out of the dumpster behind toshiba because it was defective in that it won’t read and DVD+R disks despite it being a DVD+R burner.  You may have also heard about the TI card readers that have never worked at all, and about the sound card that produces a loud buzzing on the right channel.  Now the Toshiba hard drive decided to die too.  This brings the number of original working parts to: the USB ports, the screen, the proccessor and the gfx card.

Why is my [B]Compaq[/B] laptop using [B]Toshiba[/B] parts anyways?  If I wanted a Toshiba, which I don’t as the Toshitba craptop I bought doesn’t even work and never did, I would have bought one.

This whole thing wouldn’t have irked my so much had the laptop not been a high end 1600$ laptop.  When you pay that kind of money, you expect at least mid-grade parts.  I’m through with all of these mass producing companies and you should be too.

UPDATE:  My grandpa’s DVD burner broke and surprise surprise, it was a Toshiba.  We bought it cause it was listed as a Samsung on newegg.  Apparently the two companies collaborate on more than just xbox drives, and the samsung half doesn’t compensate enough.  I was overjoyed when my 360 came with a sammy, but now I’m scared its going to die at any moment.  Remember folks, your sammy is special because of Commodore4ever’s excellent firmwares, not because the drive itself is a great product.

Update 2: The 360 drive is now dying.