toshiba

Yesterday I received an email from an old friend of mine asking for some advice about a Toshiba laptop computer that Best buy has on sale. My friend asked whether or not this cheap laptop would be a wise buy and would meet their needs of email, surfing the web and light word processing ? [...]

I have been using two email programs since about 2003 on the personal computers that I own. I use Outlook 2003 for my personal emails and also for my MSN account through Microsoft. I also have used Outlook Express for my gmail account. I get Google alerts daily which accounts for the bulk of my [...]

As the world wide recession lingers on and more people struggle to make ends meet, more people are hanging on to their older computer systems. We are all aware that businesses failed to embrace Windows Vista and continue to use the reliable, though aging, Windows XP. But no matter how many consumers or businesses try [...]

Decisions, decisions, and more decisions. My wife and I finally made a decision of what we were going to do to replace her four-year-old Gateway laptop. At first she was going to take my one-year-old Toshiba 17″ laptop and I would buy a new one for myself. But I really like my lappy, which runs [...]

We have all seen the computer ads offering a laptop system for a very low price but only offering Vista Basic. I have always thought to myself why anyone would even want to use the Basic version since it doesn’t include any of the eye candy that Vista and Windows 7 offer.
I received a phone [...]

Let me begin by saying that any survey, reported statistics, and repair information is always suspect to review. Rescuecom is an independent repair facility that repairs all brands of computers including most of the major brands that we are all familiar with. They have provided some statistics that may be a good barometer as to [...]

When Google posted their list of partners on their FAQ site for their new OS, I wasn’t very surprised that the list didn’t include Dell. In fact I don’t believe that the list should of been a surprise to anyone. Here is what Google posted on their blog:
What companies is Google working with to support [...]

Toshiba is introducing their newest notebook computer with a whopping 512 GB SSD drive. Toshiba claims that this is the worlds largest SSD to date being offered to the market place. Toshiba is also offering this computer for sale at their online store.
Toshiba issued the following statement about the new system:
Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502), reinforcing [...]

My buddy Charlie [aka Goose] had asked myself and my other good buddy Denny [aka Bugsy], what laptop he should buy? He wants to buy a unit from Costco since they provide an extended warranty plus their pricing for laptops is competitive. He sent us an email yesterday with a HP model he was looking [...]

Toshiba is a leader in producing those new SSD hard disks and are now ready to launch a 512 GB during the first part of 2009. What makes SSD so attractive when compared to the standard hard disk, is that SSD are more reliable, quiet and most importantly they are faster. SSD drives offer faster [...]

Best buy is going to be offering two Toshiba laptops on sale on Black Friday.
The first is a AMD Turin 62X2 Dual Core, with 3GB of memory and a 160GB hard disk.  $379.99
The second is the same but with 4 GB of memory and a 250 GB hard disk & other toys.  $479.96
Both systems come [...]

My new Toshiba laptop arrived yesterday afternoon and since than I have been loading up my stuff as I had previously described. If you didn’t read my previous article, this is the unit I purchased here. Here are a few things I did learn in the past 24 hours that I had stated in my [...]

My Gateway laptop has served me well for the past 3 years, but it is time to get a new system so I have been shopping around looking for a deal. I found the following Toshiba laptop at Best buy for only $549 that comes with a 17″ screen. It also comes with the following [...]

I find this strange. Blue-Ray won the war, but are they losing the battle? Toshiba seems to think so. They are in the process of introducing what is called XDE [extended detail enhancement] which according to Toshiba, will provide a better picture for standard DVD’s. Toshiba seems to feel that consumers are giving Blu-Ray a [...]

The next wave of small computers is set to hit the market place, with tens of millions being sold during the last half of 2008. But the computer industry is not excited about these new devices, since they view these smaller systems will cut into their already slim profit margins. Since some of these units [...]

I received an advertisement from Wal-Mart in the mail this morning, which featured a Toshiba laptop for $399. I have always thought that Toshiba made a fine laptop product and have recommended the Toshiba models to clients for years. What surprised me about this model is that it also featured a 15.4″ true bright screen.
The [...]

“Congratulations, You’re Not Getting A Dell,” so says Tiger Direct in its advertising flyer. In the same advertising flyer, Tiger Direct gives six reasons not to buy a Dell. It then lists Acer, Lenovo, Sony, HP, Toshiba, and Gateway brand names as the six reasons. Next the folks at Tiger Direct pit the six brands [...]