Are toshiba laptops just generally rubbish?

[Jssy]

Got this one on christmas day, the mouse key collapsed and went inside the laptop exposing all the board underneath in may so was sent to repair, same things happened again tonight so gonna have to be sent off again, and the same thing is happening to my sisters. Funny thing is it's only the left key you click that it happens to not the right. I could kind of manage with the touch pad to click but I might as well get it fixed, I'm just wondering if to just eventually get a new laptop. I've learnt my lesson, never buying anything toshiba again.

[kuzkasate]

I've had 3 - with all of them I have had problems and I am a very careful person. 2 days ago I went to PC World to buy a new laptop, after much debate I picked a Toshiba, there were only 5 of them delivered for the whole store so I bought one. Get home, start charging it... it's not charging. It says 'plugged in, not charging' and I googled it and tried a few methods that were suggested, but by the end of it I knew I could do nothing. So I went to swap it for a new one, I made them check it right there in the store - funnily enough that one didn't charge either. So eventually I picked a Lenovo - it looks better, it works better and it was only £90 more expensive than the Toshiba, but I know I can rely on my Lenovo because my cousin had a very old one and that was still very good - this one has a huge amount of memory, it's extremely fast as well! Really chuffed with it, I recommend you stay away from Toshiba's - they may seem like the best deal at the time, but realistically you'll end up paying more to fix it.

[Mark]

Never had a Toshiba laptop however I've had an Acer in the past which was just horrific.

[AlexJRiley]

I agree with the generally bad comment, had Toshiba and Compaq laptops at college and they all had MAJOR faults with them. Basically unless you're willing to pay out a fair bit (or wait for a sale) then you're gonna get ****. It generally depends one what you use it for with how much it costs if you like gaming then it might cost a bit extra but the hardwares gonna be a lot firmer and last longer. I'd recommend getting a PC rather than a laptop because most things can be replaced quite cheap and you can upgrade parts plus for the price of a decent laptop you can get a mid range tower. Thats if you've got the room for it.

[Recursion]

Toshiba used to be very good... after I got a couple of trial laptops at work recently I wasn't left impressed, they went back and we ended up going back to Dell.

[Succubus]

Imo I think they are alright, just a bit faulty. I might be taking this one back because I keep getting a shock from a part of it and it isn't safe that

[iFlame]

I've had my toshiba laptop for about 6 months, and I had one before for about 4 years, and had no issues, so I would just say that you maybe got a faulty one or something?

[Jssy]

Hmm seems like everyone has problems with them now. I have it under a cover with domestic and genereal and for free they send it to i.t specialists because toshiba charge £150 to fix it. Hoping to get a new laptop but for now this is going to have to do :/

[Succubus]

Hmm seems like everyone has problems with them now. I have it under a cover with domestic and genereal and for free they send it to i.t specialists because toshiba charge £150 to fix it. Hoping to get a new laptop but for now this is going to have to do :/

The chargers aren't decent either + my mouse bit has started to go into itself now, really annoying as it gets stuck everytime.

[Empired]

Had a toshiba last year. Gave up on it and bought a Dell vostro something instead. It's fab. It's not got a scratch and I dropped it down the stairs a couple of times too.