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Tofuva?
From Taiwan, an advance on a tantalising rumour: Toshiba, Fujitsu and Vaio look to be seriously considering a merger of their laptop-making operations. Vaio, the laptop spin-off from Sony, publicly floated the idea in late 2015. At that time it was thought that Toshiba would probably like the idea, as relieving itself of its …
Toshiba = crap
Vaio = crap
Fujitsu = well, sturdy well made crap.
All three are complete horror shows to maintain. Godawful to disassemble/reassemble. You can't get spares for them. And you can't get repair manuals. I guess they don't want anybody to fix them.
By comparison, Lenovo (and previously IBM), Dell and HP (dragged kicking and screaming by public pressure) make repair manuals easy to download from their web site. Spare parts are readily available for all three. HP laptops are still somewhat of a pain in the ass to tear down, and so are some Dells.
And then there is Acer. As far as I am concerned, they might as well merge their Acer, Gateway and eMachine crap with the other three. Except they are Taiwanese. Maybe they could build a facility on the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, neutral territory. Disputed, too.
Back in the 90s, when Toshiba laptops were extremely sturdy work tools with matt screens, and components inside which were replaceable. I had a SatPro which was still going after ten years, the original battery still charged, and there was not even one dead pixel on the screen. I went off Toshiba laptops when they started using screens that were so shiny I couldn't see jack shit on the screen during the day. A family member bought a Toshiba tablet and not only was the screen unreadable in daylight for the exact same reason, the after-sales support was shocking. I think both issues indicate why Sony and Tosh in particular have suffered. Nobody wants a laptop that is only usable in a dark room.