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0.5 stars
"Maybe I have bad luck with Toshibas"
Pros: Nice screen; Large hard drive
Cons: DVD Drive fault; Overheats; Internet port fault;
Summary: I've had this laptop for nearly an entire year and would feel guilty if I didn't warn people about it.
This was supposed to replace my previous Toshiba when it stopped working, it was still on extended warranty and when it collapsed in Best Buy, they decided to let us pick out a new laptop. We settled on this one.
Upon taking it home, after a day we realised that the dvd drive had stopped reading cds. So we brought it back, got a new one. I took it away to school (I study outside of the states) and exactly five days after we'd bought it, the dvd drive stopped working! Right as I was about to install Ubuntu! Boot from an external you say? Well the bios settings don't allow for booting from usb.
Lets not forget that after installing extra memory, bringing the available memory to 1.5 gigs, the laptop frequently complains that it doesn't have enough system resources to hibernate - once it's using over 470 mbs of ram! I'm a computer science student, so I couldn't afford to ship the laptop off to get it fixed/replaced. At some point during the year, i started having problems when i'd plug in the internet lan cable. It now frequently overheats, and windows obviously needs to be reinstalled, but ah well, can't boot from usb. Easily the most miserable experience I've had with a laptop. This could be a unique experience, but i'd think twice before buying this laptop.
