We bought our first Toshiba laptop in 1995. It was a good one. It lasted about 5 years.
This latest Toshiba lasted only about 9 months. Sadly, the warranty lasted 6 months.
In between that first Toshiba and our final Toshiba, we have bought several other brands of Windows laptops. I can’t even remember those brands – Acer or Asus was one.
But in the interim, we have bought a few Apple laptops too. And they have been much more reliable. The laptop I am typing this on was bought in early 2011. It’s still running very strong. (I have replaced the battery and hard drive and added memory.)
We bought Heather a MacBook Pro in 2009, and it’s acting like it never wants to die. Its first battery is even performing well.
No more Windows laptops. I finally learned my lesson.
The photo is a speaker inside that ill-fated Toshiba. My index finger is there to show its size. (I removed the hard drive for security purposes before giving it to Best Buy for recycling and thus saw its innards for the first time. It had stereo speakers.) It is sad to send them off to China’s Great Recycling Machine in the Sky.
