I'd have to agree with the Tripods series of books, perfect coming of age storytelling mixed up with some subtle post apocalyptic stuff. Plus if you get the kids into it now they'll be well cool before the upcoming movie (hope they don't ruin that)
I have one of the affected batteries according to the visual inspection instructions provided by Toshiba here
I rang the Toshiba helpdesk to report this and was told that because I run Linux, this would be a problem. According to the helpdesk assistant, I would need to return the entire laptop to a repair center, and have it running the installed Operating System (Windows XP Home) with the test utility installed. The repair center will then carry out diagnostics to determine if the battery should be replaced or not.
So now I have to back up all of my user data so I can put the restore disc in and install Windows XP just to get a battery swapped.Toshiba can expect a large letter of complaint regarding this once I'm done.
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I'd have to agree with the Tripods series of books, perfect coming of age storytelling mixed up with some subtle post apocalyptic stuff. Plus if you get the kids into it now they'll be well cool before the upcoming movie (hope they don't ruin that)
I have one of the affected batteries according to the visual inspection instructions provided by Toshiba here
I rang the Toshiba helpdesk to report this and was told that because I run Linux, this would be a problem. According to the helpdesk assistant, I would need to return the entire laptop to a repair center, and have it running the installed Operating System (Windows XP Home) with the test utility installed. The repair center will then carry out diagnostics to determine if the battery should be replaced or not.
So now I have to back up all of my user data so I can put the restore disc in and install Windows XP just to get a battery swapped.Toshiba can expect a large letter of complaint regarding this once I'm done.