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Toshiba Settles Class Action Suit
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."
I love my Mac, however with over 1000 registerd complaints pertaining to a lower memory slot failure, and a potential class action lawsuit about to emerge, you could end up with the same problem. http://lowermemoryslot.editkid.com/ Make sure you take out AppleCare...
Apple is about to release a new generation of iBooks and/or Powerbooks, most likely including Intel iBooks at least. This month. So hold your horses.
With spending like this, exactly what are "conservatives" conserving?
It could be that review units were manufactured to a higher standard, or subjected to more rigorous quality control, than general retail units. All they'd have to do is cherry-pick 30 perfect laptops from 30,000 wonky ones, send that 30 to review sites, and the product looks good. After all, CNet are testing the quality and design of the hardware, not its reliability.
No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
Did you read the settlement terms?
Having more than four qualifying repairs, he'll get $1000 back.