Chengdu consumers sued successful Toshiba

Because Chengdu consumers sue Toshiba successfully, the value more than 2000 Yuan television flares become by the expendable items maintain for 3 years The new bulletin news reported according to "Chinese Industry and commerce Times", recently, some careful consumers discovered that in Japanese Toshiba's liquid crystal projection television maintenance card original “expendable items: The liquid crystal projection television special-purpose flare” an item has been obliterated, but increased the liquid crystal projection television special-purpose flare in 3 year maintenance's major component “” an item. This means from now on the domestic user when will purchase the Toshiba liquid crystal projection television, special-purpose flare from beforehand paid own expenses the service to turn 3 year maintenance. And Toshiba (China) invests the Limited company also to stipulate, before pays own expenses to replace flare's user, may also depend on the maintenance records to return pays the expense. 2000 multi-dimensional flares do not maintain unexpectedly It is reported that makes the foreign electrical appliances to rewrite the maintenance card, is Chengdu Xinjin County ordinary consumer Wei subgroup. On June 21, before Wei subgroup more than one year, purchases a Toshiba liquid crystal projection television presents the breakdown. The Wei subgroup sends a telegram to the Toshiba Chengdu to service department, the service department said that was television's special-purpose flare goes bad has needed to replace, and said that the flare was the expendable items, must pay expenses the service. Replaces a flare's expense to reach as high as more than 2000 Yuan, and as the expendable items, means that must replace non-periodically frequently, Wei accepts with difficulty regarding this. Chengdu Consumer association sends out the investigation letter On June 28, the Wei subgroup has submitted the suit book to Chengdu Consumer association. After Chengdu Consumer association dwell upon Toshiba television's maintenance card, instruction booklet discovered that with "Disappears Law" about the special-purpose flare's maintenance stipulation and the country “three packages” the stipulation not symbol. On July 17, Chengdu Consumer association invested the Limited company Chengdu office to the Toshiba China to send out the urgent investigation letter officially. The investigation states by letter, Toshiba this product matches the instruction booklet only to indicate “this aircraft's flare to have the service life”, but actually had not stipulated the concrete service life time limit, causes the consumer when the choice cannot obtain the complete information, therefore has the possibility to make the mistake or is not the best choice. The investigation letter also pointed out that “the liquid crystal projection television special-purpose flare” uses an essential part normally as the television, Toshiba Corporation actually its elimination outside the free maintenance scope, with "Partial Commodity Repair Replacement Returned goods Responsibility" to television complete machine maintenance stipulation not symbol. Pays own expenses to trade the flare to be possible to attain refunds money After receiving the investigation letter, Toshiba (China) invested the Limited company Technical service department's people in charge to carry on returned goods processing to the Wei subgroup purchase liquid crystal projection television. Recently, Toshiba Corporation also to maintained the card to make the revision. Toshiba Corporation also indicated that to will already coordinate the sales shop in the circulation stage's commodity stocks to make best effort to replace the new maintenance card, to holds the old maintenance card user, also will implement 3 year maintenance according to the new maintenance card's stipulation. To maintains the period already collected fees the replacement consumer, returns this item of expense according to the maintenance records.

toshiba satellite a75 laptop review

Design and Build

The design is fairly sleek as a nice consumer line notebook should be. A nice blue power light sits above some media buttons, it's nothing special but it looks cool. The top (back side of screen) is a slick metallic-looking cobalt color which is nice opposed to some of the standard black, charcoal and magnesium alloy cases. Overall this unit is fairly sturdy. I do not feel like I am going to break it while I'm moving it around and I even twisted the screen lid a bit to test it out, it holds up pretty well. Again, it is a consumer line, not business so it's not quite the rigid metal frames of the expensive ones, but does quite well.

The weight of toshiba satellite a70 (original battery code : toshiba pa3383u-1brs ) is not a huge problem . A lot of people prefer the small and lightweight models of notebooks these days, but this one comes in at 7.9 pounds and doesn't cause me any trouble. As a college student, it's about the size and weight of some of my larger books for class. Sitting in my lap it can get a little warm, but not unbearable under normal use with the processor power turned down. If the CPU is set to high it heats up rather quickly and the fans kick on, and their noise is a little annoying after a while, but with good ventilation, it rarely gets hot enough to require much use of the fans.

Screen

The screen is absolutely wonderful. It was a factor in my purchasing this machine as my digital camera battery . A Toshiba Pentium M system with a widescreen TruBrite screen is several thousand dollars more, so this unit was quite appealing. It is always bright enough for me to see, even when I set the brightness down to save battery life. When outdoors, there is a glare on it because of the glossy finish, but it doesn't annoy me because the screen is bright enough to shine through and I never really notice the glare. Indoors, I haven't noticed a glare at all and it is the brightest, most brilliantly colored screen I have yet to see. Absolutely beautiful. I was fortunate in that it has absolutely no dead or partially lit pixels. It is a 15.4" widescreen factory set at 1280x800.

For a mainstream laptop toshiba satellite a75 ( toshiba pa3383u-1brs) the Toshiba's array of ports and slots falls right on the money. The laptop's left edge accommodates an infrared port and one Type II PC Card slot. The back edge is home to ports that include one for S-Video out, one VGA, one parallel, a 56Kbps modem, a 10/100 Ethernet, and two USB 2.0 ports; there's a third USB 2.0 port on the right edge, along with a headphone jack, a microphone port, and a couple of handy extras: a wireless on/off switch to conserve battery power and a volume-control wheel. Toshiba's Web site offers the Satellite A75 line in five preconfigured versions; in-store versions may vary. While many mainstream laptop manufacturers take this tack to save cash, the fact that you can't customize your A75 system irks us.

The Satellite A75's five configurations have five different model numbers (our evaluation system was the A75-S206), but they all use many of the same basic components. Each Satellite A75 runs a mobile Pentium 4 processor with Intel's much-hyped Hyper-Threading technology, an average 512MB of memory, and an aging ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 graphics chip that borrows up to 64MB of video RAM from the main memory. Also onboard is a fast Atheros 802.11b/g wireless mini PCI card and a preloaded version of Microsoft's pared-down office suite, Microsoft Works.

Processor and Performance

The overall speed and performance of the system is quite fast. I never have noticed any serious lagging when loading programs and playing games. Boot up is about as quick as my desktop with similar specs. I am picky when it comes to performance and do not tolerate lagging. The hard drive is 4200 RPM, slow as far as hard drives are considered as a whole, but for notebooks, it is pretty much the standard. Even with being a slower RPM, the seek times are quick and everything loads with haste. The RAM, sadly, is only at 512MB as of now. It is perfectly tolerable, but I plan to upgrade to 1BG as soon as possible, just for my peace of mind. However, I have heard many reports that the extra 512 does not make a world of difference in some machines, but I'll see about that. The games I have run on the A75 so far include Rise of Nations, run at maximum graphics, and Unreal Tournament at max graphics, as well. Both of them run amazingly well. I have not yet tried a high end game such as Doom 3 or Half Life 2, but I seriously doubt that any notebook less than one of those $3000 mega-machines would be able to play them with adequate satisfaction.

Wireless

Toshiba packages the Atheros Super G 802.11g wireless adapter built in. I love this feature, it is wonderful. It works extremely well, no difficulty and it has a convenient switch on the right side to toggle on/off. Wireless internet is a marvel in its own right. Not that it is a huge deal, but I would rather have one built in as opposed to one in the PC Card slot sticking out. There is no Bluetooth on this model. I have nothing to utilize the technology anyway, so that has no effect on me.

Battery

Toshiba pa3383u-1brs Battery (replacement battery code toshiba pa3382u-1bas)life is surprisingly decent for a big and powerful desktop replacement. I set the screen to middle level brightness and also set the hard drives and screen to never turn off and left the wireless adapter on. With these settings the system ran for 3 hours even.