I've got a Toshiba P300 dual booting to Ubuntu 10.04. I've steadily
upgraded from 8.04 on it and for the most part it was fine. Did have a
glitch during 8.10 and 9.04 where it lost all network adaptors after the
upgrade but a few extra options on the kernel boot line and they returned.
I've also had to return it for a dead hard drive and found the process
was quite painless - dropped it off at their service centre (Silverwater
from memory but could be wrong) and picked it up a few days later which
was an acceptable enough time for me.
I've owned a few Toshiba's over the years and generally get 4 - 5 years
use out of them. Of course this is one persons experiences and I'm sure
there's an equal number of people who can say the same for other brands.
HTH,
Paul
On 14/10/2010 3:02 PM, Ben Donohue wrote:
Are you sure it's not a L500? What's the exact part number.
Anyway Toshiba has a good name in laptops but they are horrible to
return if there is a problem. It can take ages.
Also watch out for the bad screen pixels clauses in the return
policies (of any brand)
Thanks,
Ben Donohue
donoh...@icafe.com.au
On 14/10/2010 2:25 PM, wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au wrote:
So, I wish to buy a laptop.
Choice suggests the Toshiba Satellite LP500.
I recall some time ago a discussion on whether the AMD processors were
better at Linux than those of Intel. As I also recall, majority opinion
was that there was 0 in it. Is this still the case?
Has anyone had experience (+ or -} with the Toshiba that's worth airing?
Thanks,
William Bennett.
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