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Toshiba Settles Class Action Suit

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the making-amends dept.

sidney writes "I was happy to receive an email January 5 informing of a class action settlement that could get me up to $1000 back on my Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 Notebook. This follows an announcement last month that the court granted preliminary approval of settlement. The email looks like a phishing attempt, but whois says the website's domain is owned by Garden City Group who are well known for administering class action settlements. After going through four hard disks, motherboards, power supply daughterboards, and VGA cards in eight repairs during the three-year extended warranty of this piece of junk I'm more than happy to send it back to Toshiba in exchange for a down payment on a new Mac."

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  1. They have no HONOR by yaj · · Score: -1, Troll

    At one point (early 90's) Toshiba OWNED the laptop market.

    I stopped buying TOSHIBA after purchasing one of their 166MHZ infinia desktops (a long time ago).

    Toshiba sucks big time, they are a JAPANESE company without HONOR.

  2. Re:First post by In+Fraudem+Legis · · Score: -1, Troll

    or not.

    --
    Per Aspera Ad Astra.
  3. Re:Sweet. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    As ALWAYS...

    YMMV. One man's lemon is another man's golden goose.

    Apple's computers work fine for many people, just like Toshiba's do. There are bad ones in the bunch, but it's not indicative of a shoddy company.

    If you want a truly mass-market shoddy product, buy a Dell. Any will do.

  4. How could you switch to Apple??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I can't believe how many people even acknowledge Apple here. Apple still has the same overpriced / ultrahyped products for the elitist, starbucks drinking, computer ignorant population of the world. It's great for artists, people that only use computers for browsing the web and checking email, and people that just want to be part of the Apple elitist clique. I will always reject two things - Apple Computers and Satan.