What Happened To Toshiba?
In the 2000s, Toshiba was one of the largest consumer electronics brands in the world. They made everything from laptops and TVs to refrigerators and dryers. You could say that they were the Japanese version of Samsung. But, over the past 10 years, Toshiba has become more and more irrelevant and most people have completely forgotten about them. In fact, things have gotten so bad that Toshiba has sold certain parts of their business, they shut down their laptop business, they faked their numbers, and one of their subsidiaries even filed for bankruptcy. This is really quite a shame given that Toshiba has been around for nearly 150 years, and they were the pioneers of many technologies such as flash memory. And who could forget their famous New Year countdown? Despite all this though, considering Toshiba's current situation, the future doesn't look so bright. This isn't to say that Toshiba is going to file for bankruptcy tomorrow, but it looks like they're going to continue slowly declining until that becomes their only option. This video explains the story of Toshiba and what happened to Toshiba.
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"Have you ever had a Toshiba laptop?" - I'm watching this on my almost exactly 12 years old Toshiba laptop and with only minimal tweaking it still runs like a charm. You really can still feel the quality on that machine. They may have fallen over the last years, but man...That was a high platform they started from.
They were absolutely top of the marketplace for a decade or more. I'd forgotten how far they've fallen.
japanese quality
I also 2 toshiba laptop so far which were very good. Only thing I didnt used them is due to my own fault not cleaning them and overheating after years of use. HP laptops and msi laptops I bought after went bad within a year.
Yes, I run an IT company in Australia and have sold literally hundreds, if not thousands over a 20 year period going back to the grey bricks of the '90s with the passive displays and Made In Japan labels. Satellite, Tecra, Portege - you name it, I knew it. They had a local repair office and honoured repairs even outside of warranty. I remember one series model with an NVidia graphics display that had a known fault and even at 5 years old with a standard 12 month warranty they still repaired it free of charge! If you looked inside many other brands of laptops (HP, Dell, Asus, Lenovo, Acer, MSI etc.) they often had Toshiba branded hard drives in them. I now sell the Dynabook brand of laptops which is of course Toshiba's rebranded Sharp Corporation models. My 5 year old Toshiba Portege is still rocking along and I'll guess I'll buy its spiritual successor Dynabook when it finally dies. High respect for Toshiba and they certainly served me well with reliable decent performing machines. Shame what happened.
I have an old (~2008 iirc) one and it still works just as well as when i found it In 2021, i was looking at getting a new laptop because of the discrete gpu shortage and accidently touched a toshiba a little too hard, cracking the screen and case.
Talking about Toshiba, reliability will comes to mind. No doubt Toshiba technology is a bit behind other competitive brands but their product really last. My Toshiba Laptop Satellite C640 is still alive and kicking after 11 years of service.
Me I have a satellite ST180, bought in 2002. It weighs 7kg. It's still fully functional. It's now 20yr
LOL.... Might want to glance at their many class action lawsuits.... that they lost.
i have a Toshiba satellite a 200 (bought in 2005), then i bought hp Pavillion note 15(in 2017), compared to the Toshiba,the new laptop felt like a biscuit,the keyboard was very weak,the HDD was so slow(faulty for some reasons), the touchpad just ughhh,the Bluetooth just doesn't like to work,the usb ports are bad (i've seen cheap usb phone charger that has a better quality than this ports) , the hp laptop worked for just 1 year and half, then the motherboard got a damaged circuit, and since the processor is integrated into the motherboard, i can't just remove it. all in all Toshiba build laptops that are reliable and simply work
I have had the opposite experience. With my first laptop, a Toshiba, the hard drive failed five days (yes, five days) after I bought it. Luckily, because it was still new, I didn’t had much data stored on it. With my second laptop, also a Toshiba, the start button failed after 13 months, just out of warranty. The authorised repairer took several months to repair it because, according to the repairer, Toshiba didn’t deliver the spare part in a timely manner. After that, I swore off buying a Toshiba.
same here Satellite L670D , even played some games with it in 2012 , still works and it is still fast enough for just office stuff
I have a Toshiba laptop, it's 10 years old and still working, they really built those things to last.
I have a one too and i think its 17inch 2010. But i dropped on the ground and the screen is RIP :(
yeah, that's very good for the consumer but not for the company because other companies nowadays make their product last around 1-3+ years before the product is broken / outdated and you have to buy a new one.
Yeah i have one, and still working to.
yes me too dont even think of gaming though with those laptops
I love how toshiba products are very long lasting. My late dad bought toshiba refrigerator in 2005 and still working well until today with just few repairs. It even survived flooding and various power outage. Simply impressive
my GE refrig is from 1990, never had a problem.
@@batsonelectronics *fridge
A fridge has very few components therefore fewer things can go wrong. Any fridge from any brand should be able to last more than 15 years
yes. also my 16-year toshiba AC still good to used until now in my bedroom with some few repairing and cleaning too.
@@batsonelectronics that because it's GE.
Toshiba satellite series was one of the best laptops during that era… Value for money, reliability and performance.
Dude! Mine is still working! ahahhaha Although it might not be as fast at processing as my current work station but I use it as a family server now. It is a tank! I had it, more or less, 15 years ago. It even outlived my sister's ASUS laptop which she bought 5 years after I got my Toshiba.
I still own one too I work from lol
im posting this comment with it😆
@@themicoism they made it too good, so people dont need to buy a new one for decade, thus killing their own business
I had mine with 15 inch display bought in 2005 still working and collecting dust on the top rack in my store
That's the thing about a company being out of mind. I didn't even notice them going away.
For real hahaha, people just forgot about them completely
I guess it was so bad for the company because they were embarrass.
100%. They were the top of the heap when I was selling consumer electronics (1995-2005) but it wasn't until I saw this video that I realized how much they had just disappeared. Even Sony, as far as they've fallen, is still more of a going concern. Now I'm wondering about Mitsubishi, which likely is just a shell of its former self as well. (Yamaha, you're next)
@@Shutterbun4 Yes, there are plenty of computer companies that have gone away (Osborne, Zenith, Tandy, Compaq, etc) but normally there is a media blitz about it. You know how the media just drools over reporting bad news.
@@lucidmoses LOL Osborne...haven't heard that name in a LONG time.
I have a Toshiba laptop, I bought it really cheap as the store was getting rid of the model. It's been more than 6 years and the laptop still works, I upgraded the RAM as the Windows was upgraded to Win 10 by itself, Toshiba designed a small cover for easy RAM upgrade that was a really convenient design.
Japanese laptops all work great.....I've been using my NEC laptop for 11 years & still works like brand new.
RAM covers are an old thing, my first Compaq in 1999 had one.
RAM covers and HD covers were very much a desired feature. HD could easily be removed to another PC as a data drive and scanned for Viruses.
the problem is the HDD and CPU are usually hard to get too. CPU thermal paste dries out every 1-3 years so replacing it is normally a huge cost and most people won't spend the $100 in labor to do it. Same if the CPU cooling fan dies. ( fans die since they are moving parts ) Many cheap machines now are a pain to take apart so I only sell Business models myself, they have easy to remove bottom covers that give access to mostly everything.
@@batsonelectronics - Another benefit of an easily removable HD is the ability to move it to another computer as a data drive in order to easily conduct a virus sweep.
Toshiba's entry level laptops were more reliable than most, particularly HP's garbage. My first laptop was a grey slab Toshiba with an actual colour lcd panel, fellow travelers were amazed that the thing lasted for almost an entire transatlantic flight. Japanese electronics companies have yet to understand the importance of entire ecosystems: operating systems, apps, customers themselves; and got stuck in low margin businesses.
What are you talking about?Are really garbage Laptop's.
i spent 800 USD on my L55 Satellite back in 2014. Put an SSD in it like 5 years ago and it still works like new.
I got a toshiba laptop and it broke in a few weeks I still agree they are bullet proof tho we probably just misused it
I got an HP for over a decade.
@@louismalardon3363 Toshiba literally had the lowest failure rate, along with ASUS and Apple. These are real statistics that are out there.
I'm Japanese and the explanation was really good. One thing to consider is that the Japanese Government is supporting Toshiba quite heavily because of its deep links to the defense industry. I believe that Toshiba is still going to be alive for a while.
Thanks for the insight.
I see, commissioned by Engineering ministry and then also involved with the military, it makes sense that now Japanese government keeps Toshiba afloat
Their foray into the nuclear power business was also government sponsored. That did not end up well.
@@OitaOscar Yeah I’m not sure there’s a single government anywhere that I’d trust to do something responsibly
somehow an anime PFP and a Japanese name made me assume you weren't Japanese lol
I did laptop repair back in the early 2000s. Toshiba laptops were, by far, the worst to work on; no one wanted to take a Toshiba ticket. They were overly-complex and impossible to piece back together. A mainboard replacement that would otherwise take 1 hour in a Dell, would take a full day for a Toshiba. Anyway, great channel. Thanks for all the amazing content!
Thank you for watching and sharing your experience John!
I'm not working in the repair sector, but I do work on my own devices, I have a Toshiba laptop since 2014, it's very reliable, but as you said, hard to work on, hidden screws, hard clips, and so on...
The same things you complained about third party repair isn't that how iOS is making its current devices hard to operate, unscrew etc does that mean they'll fail too
But unrepairable laptops seems to be the "modern trend"?
My dad bought us this monster of a Toshiba laptop back in 2003/2004. Had a Pentium 4 at something ridiculous like 3.2GHz, 512MB RAM, and a GeForce Go FX5200. Despite it being a 17 inch laptop it felt like it was going to melt through the desk. It was not suitable for lap use lol. Still managed to play WoW pretty well back in the day .After two years or so its battery was shot, the fans sounded like sirens, the hinges both snapped and the keyboard began to melt plus the charging port was broken. You had to prop something underneath the cable port so it would make contact. Thing was a pain in the ass to use.
I had several Toshiba laptops and loved them. I was disappointed that they went out of production and would have replaced my current Toshiba laptops with Toshibas. I had nothing but great luck with them and they proved to be rugged and reliable. I still have one and it still performs well for its age. But I will have to replace it soon with something else in order to run up to date programs.
Their laptops still exist. Just the business was bought by SHARP (another Japanese company) and rebranded it as just Dynabook.
I have nothing but fond memories of Toshiba electronics. I had (& still have!) a Toshiba 'walkman' which was even smaller than the cassette it played from the mid 80's. I have had countless other Toshiba products over the years, including the almost perfect 40" LCD TV I still watch daily. When I lived in Japan in the 90's, they were as prominent as Sony, Sharp, & Panasonic and always seemed to be about 10-20% cheaper, but just as good quality. I hope they hang in there and make a comeback and continue to innovate consumer electronics. がんばって!
the dead guy in the Video? who needs fancy Windows Laptops in 2022 ??? they should invested in cloud solutions!
A "walkman" that was smaller than the cassette tape? Did it only cover half the cassette or something?
I feel bad for Toshiba. I had 2 Toshiba laptops in the past decade. Both were Satellite series and brilliant machines. Sad to hear where Toshiba is today.
yeah Satellites were very good at one time
Same
I've Got Toshiba Satellite M100-164 still running and rocking today, with original Hard disk tha came with it back in 2008.
same
Don't they make smart tvs , too. I loved my Toshiba laptop. I have heard Hewlett Packard bought them out.
Still remember in late 2000's Toshiba laptops in my country were known for their reliability, owned one which lasted for almost 10years without any issues until it died.
Toshiba has always been top grade super reliable electronics equipment in my book. My Toshiba transistor radio with the steel front casing was indestructible. I am still using a 15-yr old Toshiba laptop that just won't quit.
Definitely a shame. I still have my Toshiba Satellite from 2007 and although it is very outdated, it runs perfectly. And my Toshiba TV from 2009 is still in use today as well! Thier products weren't the best you could buy, but they were the best value and extremely reliable.
What's sad is Toshiba was the brand that always introduced things first in their laptops - you kind of pointed to the fact that Toshiba was the inventor of a lot of the stuff we take for granted today. People may not have been loyal to them but they will miss them even without recognizing it.
like what ? What did they invent and use first ? Been in IT since the 80's and I can't think of anything Toshiba came out with first.
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Like?
@@batsonelectronics they co devolped the cell prosessor with IBM and Sony
@@batsonelectronics GOD
If only these Japanese companies simplified & modernised they'd become unstoppable. Eg smaller focused range of products.
Yeah, they could be like Samsung
@@LogicallyAnswered Samsung is antidefinition of simplified product portfolio.
@@MJ-uk6lu ikr.
Well said. 💪😃
Some do but they tend to be small business such as mini tools /precision tools. If they are big like sony, mitsubishi, etc they tend to be conglomerates and be very bug and slow to adapt.
I love my Toshiba laptops. They are so much better than any other laptop that I have used. They are still operational and I will try to keep them running as long as I can. I am sorry to hear that they got out of the laptop business. They were my first choice for laptops.
I'm still using Toshiba Satellite laptop and external hard drive and still works fine. Toshiba was great company 🔥❤️
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Install a new SSD, and keep it 10 more years! who needs a new Windows laptop?
@@lucasrem yea but laptop have only 4 gb ram which is not efficient now.
I have been using a Toshiba laptop for the past 7years. Excellent durability. So sad that they give up.
Yes, I have an AMD one I got in 2011, I still use it. When my new HP had issues, I was doing software dev on it for a few days. With an SSD it really wasn't that bad. It also has a 17" beautiful screen.
I have a 3 TB HDD of Toshiba, because I didn't trust any other HDDs available at the store at that time. I wish Toshiba recovers and comes back.
Toshiba hard drives are the best. I have never had one fail. I have had several Seagate, a few Western Digital, and 1 Hitachi drives fail.
Agreed. I can't count how many of the newer Seagate hdd's died the last years. All the Toshiba drives are working still fine, even after 10 years.
Agreed. My Toshiba drive I lasted longer than the WD and Seagates. Too bad they sold off the division.
Yup!
Toshiba is still making Hard Drives, they still carry Hitachi technologies and has deals with WD. The SSD and flash drive memory division now existed as a whole company named Kioxia, and Toshiba still holding around 40% of the share of Kioxia.
I had no idea they tanked so badly! Thanks for sharing this! I did tech support for their laptops and desktops in the late 90's and I remember training and going through slides on how they were assembled. Hands down the most boring training I've ever experienced! At least the room was dark and we could catch up on some sleep during the slide show.
It's probably because those products basically do last forever. People don't replace them so low sales to the company. That's why nowadays most companies intentionally make things to fail after a few years.
As a laptop repair technician, Toshiba laptops with Nec Tokin filter capacitors were very notorious for random shutdowns and bluescreens back in the day.
I did have Toshiba laptops in the past. I had always thought of them as really good X86 devices. But now that I recall I never bought those laptops to begin with. They were almost always given to me by employers. This video was truthful to me in that regards. I don't think Toshiba had a "fan base", all it had was just a "user base". This might lead some people to think twice about calling out Apple or Microsoft or Google or Samsung fanboys. In the modern era you do not want to be just a company with users. You need a "fan base".
my family was fans, but we are definitely in the minority there. We had 3 or 4 Toshiba laptops I believe. I still have mine from 2011.
Ikr
Toshiba's were never value for money or competitive in pricing. I believe this could have been an issue.
@@mohammedfuadh9096 their real market back then was the businesses, they rather sell 500 mid-high end Tecras in one direct sale than selling Satellites one by one to end users.
we definitly were fans. We got toshiba stuff because it may not have been the best of the best or the cheapest, but you knew you got a quality product for a fair price. Most of the stuff still runs today, including a tablet from 2011
My sis and my younger bro used to have protege laptop back in the 90. It was the coolest brand at the time i guess. Today when I think of Toshiba, I can still relate to washing machine, refrigerator, and microwave ovens. I still trust them on the household appliance products, because, I told my wife 'Toshiba wouldn't just make something too low quality; I trust their brand'. If they want to quit the IT product business althgether, I wish they go back to strengthen these household appliances. Winning in everything is impossible but being the best in something is a lot more feasible. Wish them good luck.
Plan B for them, domestic products again? or develop 2022 cloud solutions?
My first laptop I bought was a Toshiba one in 2010 and it still works. I knew they fell off but didn't know it was this bad, I noticed about 4-5 years ago I was seeing less Toshiba laptops compared to when I bought mine and even within the last 2-4 years places that used to sell Toshiba externals no longer carry them.
Yes, I still have my old Toshiba laptop and it still works to this day. It has given me many years of pleasure and never had any problems. It saddens me to see where Toshiba is today and hope that they can pull themselves out of it. If they decided to make a new laptop, I would buy it without hesitation.
Bought 4 thoshiba laptops and they were amazing and really durable, my 15 year old thoshiba still turns on, but my 6 year old dell has alot of problems, Dell had alot of software issues and could never get the camera or mic to run reliablaly, bought a thoshiba for my brother 5 years back and was really easy two setup the software etc and update the drivers, last thoshiba I got was the thoshiba chrome book 2 still have it and it's running amazingly
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Thanks! I bought two Toshiba "SMART AIR CONDITIONERS" last year. Got them connected and since then: "UNABLE TO CONNECT TO SERVER". Your video answers my questions as to why.
I loved my toshiba laptop and would definitely have bought another. My current and last tv were both toshiba. I love their brand and breaks my heart to see the company going through such hardships.
I worked in Toshiba for 4 years, and as an employee back then, I felt the declined of the company
I didnt even realise they stoped making laptops! I recommended someone look at Toshiba laptops just a few weeks ago. I worked with a guy who worked in the malaysian factory that produced drive platters, Toshiba platter based hard disks are better quality than seagate and western digital, the platters are all made in the same factory in malaysia and toshiba has the highest standard requirement for contamination on the platters surface. They also use glass platters which cannot warp or change size with temperature variation the same way aluminium ones can.
That must be why I never had a Toshiba HDD fail.
Use an ssd, better reliability and more than 10x speed in data transfer and most tasks.
Toshiba sold all laptop business to Sharp. My company provided me a Dynabook Portégé this year and it’s no longer with a TOSHIBA label.
Thank you for the informative video. Very sad to see Toshiba declining like this - bad luck, bad timing, and mismanagement look impossible to bounce back from. I did buy Toshiba laptops because of the brand name. Toshiba is the brand I always considered "robust and reliable", and excellent value for money, since the 1980's. My first Toshiba purchase was a secondhand microwave (shop demo model, heavily abused) bought in 1995 that ran for 15 years before the digital control panel failed - magnetron, turntable all still good! My most recent (non-Toshiba) microwave has lasted just 18 months before blowing up in Jan 2022... My first laptop was a Satellite X200 gaming laptop from 2007, again bought secondhand, that was still working just fine at 12 years old. It ran Vista, but never crashed, not even once. Totally bulletproof. It even survived having a glass of wine spilt over the keyboard while it was running. I had to disassemble the keys to unstick them after the wine evaporated to glue, but all worked just fine after that. Meanwhile the expensive HP Omen I bought in 2017 to replace it already has a busted keyboard (5 random keys have stopped working, including "o") at just 4 years old, and it is impossible to repair or replace the keyboard without taking every last screw and component apart. Eeeek. That is on top of a battery management and charging system that sometimes doesn't charge at all... since new... Lastly, the 10 inch Toshiba notebook I bought new as a backup toy in 2009 was the ONLY portable machine that worked flawlessly in Feb 2022, after an internet connection glitch forced me to connect at a neighbour's house to sort out my own connection. It runs Windows XP - yep, that old! (The HP Omen was out because the broken keyboard meant I could not log on as my details need one of the non-working keys, and a Dell XPS Ultrabook from 2013 had a ram failure.)
My experience with Toshiba products has always been great. They might lag sometimes in the newest stuff. But the stuff they do have just works. And works for a long time!
$19billion worth of assets is still a lot for Toshiba to do something big and worth while with. I just don't know what new area of IT or similar tech they will go into..
That’s not how much their assets are worth, that’s their market cap. But you’re right, that is still quite a lot.
Thanks You are right but it is still a lot of value though.
But they have 100k employees and wages cost quite a bit. We also have no idea about their debt.
@@MJ-uk6lu 19.7B USD total liabilities, 31.5B USD total assets
I love Toshiba. They also made electronics for the PS2 and PS3. Everything I've ever bought from them still works. Going back to a tube TV, DVD, player, and even my vhs player. My laptop is still very fast and works good and my new toshiba is easy to use and looks good. I hope they turn it around.
I am still using a Toshiba external drive and have been using it for over four years now, this thing is amazingly high quality and durable. I have dropped it so many times and put it through so many read and write cycles but still is as fast as it was and suffered from no problem with it at all. It is sad they are falling behind
Same I've had a portable Toshiba drive I've dropped countless times and a portable drive from Seagate broke first drop moving my game system. Excellent quality products
I had a Toshiba laptop (my very first laptop) back in 2013, and its wasn't that good. The DVD drive's motor mount broke after a year, and the discs can't spin up. At the same time, some keys of the keyboard stopped working properly due to mechanical failures. The battery then stopped taking a charge AT ALL (the battery was glitchy even when the laptop was brand new). Due to the battery sitting at voltage of less than 3.0V per cell, the cells bloated about 3 years later, and I had to take the battery out of the laptop and recycle it immediately before it blows up. Surprisingly there were no software issues or BSODs with that laptop. Laptop specs: Satellite L55t-A5290 Windows 8 i5-3337U 8GB DDR3 1366 x 768 display 750GB hard drive Built in DVD RW drive Keyboard w/10 keys 43Wh battery (fire hazard battery) I bought a Toshiba 1TB hard drive in 2014, and it is still working normally as of today. Toshiba hard drives seem to be very durable.
I still have a Toshiba laptop (don’t know if it still works) and a tv that use everyday. The tv I purchased 2012 and still amazes me since all other TVs In my house have been replaced a couple times
That, is amazing
It also means that Toshiba only sell one TV for a customer in 10 years when other sell fews.
Sorry I’m late again, toshiba is a forgotten chapter of a technological revolution and it is bad to see a old and trustworthy company end like this but bad decisions are definitely the main cause for their decline. Great video 👍🏻 And it is a kind of ironic that the thing destroyed japan in ww2 and it is the same thing that destroyed the economy of toshiba 😅 By the way, love your new channel 👍🏻
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Great video, thanks. Yes, I had a Toshiba laptop around 2000. It was terrible- had three repairs necessary during warranty, then died again just out of warranty. Never again!
I think it’s totally inappropriate to call them “laggards”- the modern hate language of unappreciating youth. Toshiba made great stuff and I wish they do some more.
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My children had Toshiba laptops which were decent performers and good value. I was sad to hear Toshiba stopped laptop production. More recently I suggested my elderly mother purchase a Toshiba smart TV because I always viewed Toshiba as a reliable and trusted brand. Unfortunately the TV software is buggy frequently losing the channel listings with the programme retuning function taking many minutes to complete but finding zero channels and only being restored by redoing the initial setup function. Also the most basic and desirable page up and down guide remote control function is missing and an enquiry to Toshiba UK support provided no solution to this awol vital action. I wished we had gone for a Samsung smart TV instead. I hope Toshiba can turn things around but your film suggests this will be difficult if not impossible. Thanks for posting.
Hope a catch you in time. Don’t get aSamsaig flat tv. The y get the dark line of death in just 2 years. Look it up people or beyond mad and some even talking about a class lawsuit because it cost sometimes more than the TV to get it fix. Out tv last 5 year before it show up one hug dark line we didn’t know what was going on till I looked it up. One business had to replace all their flat tv as that got the dark line one by one after 2 years almost like it programmed to do it. I heard it two issues that can cause it, wines not tight, a definitional power supply or a bad panel . Depend on where you live and the error of the tv it can be beyond costly. I have a Sony flat screen that 10 years old and have none of this to happen. Hope I caught you in time. Just look up on KZhead and the internet about the same problem people having.
My very first laptop was a Toshiba Sattelite L350-235 that I got for christmas in 2009 when I was 7 years old and it served me well until 2017 when I upgraded to a macbook air and now a Lenovo Ideapad with a GTX 1050. I now also have a Toshiba Sattelite Pro 480CDT from 1996 and that thing is an absolute tank. :)
I got a 4TB (3.6TB) Toshiba external HDD and It's good for storing games and other type of files, I got it simply because it was very well reviewed on amazon, the speed and for the price. I hope Toshiba recovers and gets to make external SSD
A Toshiba laptop was my first introduction to the internet. Though we didn't have internet at home moms needed it for her night classes. I remember going to our local library & using it there to download games. Great value computer for the time.
Ah, glad you had a positive experience with Toshiba
Mine too. They were some alright laptops. They just sometimes got a little hot.
Well. It was that until 2008. But since 2010, Toshiba laptops is well known in my country for being too overpriced with poor quality (especially the plastic body part)
Me too playing games in aunt's laptop almost every Sunday back then till... don't anymore
I had a friend who had a Toshiba from 2010 and that was around 2014. Now it's 2022 and he still has it and it still works. The thing survived a teenage boy and his pursuits of internet strange, I think that's peak reliability
I've been living and working in Japan for a decade now and one thing that I noticed that's causing major companies here in japan to closed or go bankrupt is they are slow to adapt to the changes on technology that is currently on the international market. One example on this is the LCD panel. Thou all over the world customers already having LED and OLED panels as na option, but here in Japan you can still see TV's and monitor's in LCD being sold on big electronic shops like YAMADA DENKI and EDEON shops. You can also see that on Sony's Xperia smartphones, the harware is good but the lack of good screens on their phones makes the customer pass on them. Japan produce really good products but the stubborness to adapt to the changes is making them a hard time to compete in the international market.
Lol the best part still prices their phone as expensive as samsung flagship devices. Would buy s22 over xperia any day when they are the same price.
@@YYLiow they're more expensive than even the Z fold sometimes.
I had a Toshiba netbook in my teenage years. It still works despite it broke down one of its hinges. I still keep it as the charger broke down in 2017 and then I extracted the HDD to be placed in an enclosure drive. I also have a 6 year old 500GB Toshiba HDD and it is now sitting to my new PC that's now filled with two SSDs for backup storage. Recently bought an HP laptop and it has a Kioxia NVMe SSD, which this is the former Toshiba Memory and SSD division that they spun off in 2018.
Japanese companies are good at making slow incremental improvements but they generally suck in fast paced environments that require the ability to adapt to survive. Consumer appliances is a fairly stable market but consumer electronics isn't and nothing they tried after works, sometimes due to bad luck but a lot of the time because they were entering fast paced industries that they weren't suitable for. Toyota is experiencing the same problems now (they bet big on hybrid & helium vehicles which everyone else agrees is now dead or dying with EV's taking over, they keep refusing to ramp up their EV development because of the resources they've invested already. Management need to let go, take a small L while they can before it turns into a HUGE L that could destroy the company).
I remember back in the day I used a Toshiba Satellite laptops quite often, despite its limited specs it still runs games well and it continues to serve me today. I also bought a fridge from them though it has been making weird noises. I feel like the air pump spring may have grinded on something.
Does anyone here from the UK remember the add for Toshiba Televisons that had the slogan "Hello Tosh got a Toshiba?" It was a variant on the Alexi Sayle song which topped the charts; Hello John go a new motor. Anyway well done to the man who put this upload together. Subd'.
I bought a Toshiba laptop in Nov. of 2011, it's still going strong over a decade later.
Wow!
Me too still use mines works good still fast
And that is why they are almost bankrupt. The companies that design products that only last 2 to 3 years are raiding billions from our bank accounts and driving up e waste increasing pollution. Toshibas were my favorite laptops. After writing that, i am about to buy more ram and a larger capacity hard drive for my 8 year old acer laptop.
@@stephenjones5051 I'm surprised you had an Acer last 8 years, their motherboards and PSUs are garbage. My parents had 3 die on them in 4 years, and a few friends had less than 3 year lives on their Acers.
I am surprised too...but not complaining
My ex once had a Toshiba laptop n it helped me out a lot when I was starting of my company
Glad to hear that Skhweziwe!
I loved my Toshiba Laptops! 2 of the 3 still work well. The one I miss is the 18.3". What a monster size. Clear, fast and competent. Unfortunately, the motherboard was prone to cracking from heat flex.
I love Toshiba laptops, particularly in the mid to late 90's, purely because of nostalgia. I first went online on a Portege. Spent countless hours chatting and downloading stuff on a dial up connection all night and losing sleep in the day while in college. I got to use a couple of Satellite Pros running P2s back then, which was absolutely screaming at the time. It saddens me to see what happened to the company and brand.
I had a few toshiba laptops, which were super durable. After more than 20 years, they're still good to use. Really love them. And really bad seeing Toshiba going down.
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I've only had one Toshiba laptop from about 15 years ago and it was a hand me down from a friend. It had issues with the hinge seizing up and being so hard that one day it just snapped.
I rode submarines in the 70s and 80s and I distinctly remember when the Soviet subs suddenly became quieter and harder to track on SONAR. That was directly due to Toshiba selling computer-controlled precise propeller milling machines to the USSR, which created cleaner milling of the blades. Toshiba knew they were breaking the law and betrayed us anyway. It put my safety in jeopardy, particularly if we were ever to go to war with soviet subs. I never forgot that betrayal; our submarine force hated Toshiba back then! I've never bought anything made by Toshiba ... and I had a chance to take bids from various companies to supply laptops for a technology crew that I worked for later on as a civilian. When I received a bid from Toshiba, I unceremoniously tossed it into the trashcan. It was the lowest bid, too ... so I'm proud to say that in my own small way, I did some damage to them. I am delighted to hear of their troubles. I hope they fold.
I loved that my Toshiba portege had minimal bloatware. It still runs very well although Toshiba never released the upgrade to windows 10, which was very frustrating so I ended up reformatting it on Linux in frustration. I gave it to my aunt who just needs it for internet. It had lots of driver issues, but it was otherwise a reliable machine.
Well I think year after year as demand of electricity is increasing we just cannot depend on renewable energy. That's why I think countries like France are still investing on nuclear technology. Well we would need a lot of innovation in how to store energy and green hydrogen etc till then we have to depend on nuclear energy and try to make nuclear power plants more safer by using sodium as an alternative to liquid water to avoid any such disaster in future.
Well, hopefully, France's efforts payoff
I wished Toshiba stayed and continued on the laptops as well, I really loved their laptops
Best PC laptop I ever owned was made by Toshiba. Everything else just felt cheap by comparison. With the options from Toshiba dwindling I ended up switching to Mac when it was time for an upgrade.
Who needs Windows laptops in 2022?
@@lucasrem anyone who want to play some games and dont want to trow money on overpriced Mac`s ;)
I've had Porteges all my life, still use a Z20t as my travel laptop and for live mixing. Also kept hold of my 3480ct which still works fine.
I used to own a satellite laptop back in 2013, it was really worth the money in terms of specs, in spite of looking bulky and outdated when compared with competition
I was gifted a high spec Satellite in 2013 and I’m still using it to this very day, not a single problem
@@williamviman2864 #metoo. I bought mine in 2023 and I'm still happy with it, though after upgrading to SSD and more RAM.
I had 2 Toshiba laptops in the early 2000' and 2010's. When I spilt a drink into the second one in 2018 I thought I'd get another Toshiba. My searching was disappointing 😞. Bought an Inovo.
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I do have a Toshiba laptop right now. It was my second laptop and it went on to be used as my home AD server for awhile. It did need a few upgrades to become a server, but ultimately it's been retired as of 2020 and has not been used since.
Still use and Love my Toshiba Portege
Best laptopp i ever owned. lasted me nearly 10 years. Only battery had to be replaced in year 6. No lenovo, HP, or dell has been that reliable in my circle
Idk I have a HP Pavilion from 2015 and it’s still mostly good. 7 years now. Although it’s a bit slower now, and crashes when I try to run some games that it had no problem with before. Otherwise for college work and anything else it’s fast enough. Must have a RAM or memory problem idk
I had Toshiba laptop and it lasted for 13+ years (the reason why it didn't last much longer was because I lent it to my tech illiterate parents). I was going to buy another Toshiba laptop but that was exactly the time when Toshiba pull out of laptop industry... I've tried several other brands but I still prefer Toshiba... at least what Toshiba used to be.
Same my laptop is 11 years still working its slow tho.Sad to see them go out of business.
My wife just gave me her 2009 Satellite. I use it as my tv and video player. I really like the keyboard.
There was once a time Toshiba laptops were the best and most reliable and stronlgly built with minumum issues and lasted a long time. Regardless of them going down i still rate Toshba very highly and their products have always been good. I will certainly miss the future of Toshiba
This was an interesting video. I never had a Toshiba laptop, but I do still have a Toshiba CRT TV which still works. I also have a 1TB HDD on the PC I'm using right now to type this.
Had one of those qosmios with fire decals. Looked rad, but it was heavier than the rest of my bag and 2-3 times thicker than a normal laptop. Still ran my games smoothly wherever I went. Shame that they don't make laptops anymore. Would love to buy a similarly rad laptop, though I probably couldn't bring it to work :)
Glad you had a semi good experience with them hahaha
I remember years ago selling computers and laptops at office depot. Toshiba laptops were always some of the best and most reliable. I remember recommending them above the others.
Heyy, that's where I'd bought my last one :]
In the late 90's I worked as a Copier repair tech and the company I was with had some Toshiba copiers still in our larger customer base but no one to work on them anymore. I took it on to train myself to fix them and came to really like them. They were built like battleships compared to other copiers but were surprisingly simple in design which made fixing them easy. Plus due to their simple design, it was easy to 'tweak' the toner transfer system to make absolutely black copies which customers loved compared to the typical 'really dark grey' copies most other brands made.
Now that you mention it, I rarely hear Toshiba now days. I remember so many Toshiba stuff including laptop like there are everywhere.
Toshiba brings good things to life. The ads r so iconic . Yet can’t recall buying anything from this except that my gateway hard disk happens to b from them, which we wouldn’t even know if I didn’t open it up for maintenance 👩🔧
Toshiba laptops were bulletproof and reliable. Hands down. So sad that they're gone
This makes a lot of sense - I mean, the impact of Fukushima to the business - hadn't heard this before and was wondering why they stopped making laptops. Have abt. 5-6 Toshiba laptops - and apart from larger 17" screen models (where the videocard chip tends to burn out or smth, leaving a black screen on startup) - they are ridiculously sturdy. Some of them are from 2015 or older and still survive heavy everyday use - where brands like IBM/Lenovo tend to just quit at some point. Thanks for the video, greetings from Latvia.
Greetings from Calcutta, India. I purchased Toshiba Satellite C640 i5 laptop in 2012. With some maintenance and upgradation, its still up and running. I intend to use it till Toshiba gives service.
When these huge companies go bankrupt or just lose market shares, it would be interesting to know what are the strategies adopted from former employees to stay relevant in the job market
Will start applying for jobs at competitor company some people do get hired and through those people even more people gets hired. I've worked at a company that went almost bankrupt.
We bought our first laptop in 2011 and it was Toshiba guess what it still works and I am confident to say that power management circuits are much superior to modern devices.
A lot of my friends, and many people I met has Toshiba, or Asus
I'm watching this video right now on a Toshiba Satellite P755 laptop that I bought new. Cannot find a manufacture date on it right now, but its old and works great. I did replace the hard disk with a SSD. Love it.
My first laptop I bought with my own money was slightly used Satellite A200-14D. After a year - left hinge cracked. I learned that it was common issue with all A200 series, and parts was of course unobtainable. Aliexpress was not a thing yet. After short examinating of broken hinge - it was obvious that it was intentionally designed to break. For the rest of laptops life, it served me jerryfixed with hot glue. With standard 5400rpm drive upgraded to 7200rpm one, maxed out RAM to 4GB, it runned pretty fast with Vista and later with Win7. I really liked multifuntional touchpad it had. The biggest dissapointment was that I was sure it had detachable graphics card that was possible to upgrade... Yes - it had detachable card. But proprietary, made only for A200/205 series. As I remember, Toshiba's support page with drivers and downloads was back then traumatic to use. Also - they used 3 different designations for exact the same device, something like: A200-14D/A200-ST2041/PSAE6E-0GP03CPL (no, this is not serial number - it's model number). I remember the difference after buying an Acer laptop, that I loved: all I had to do after reinstalling Windows was to open support page and write: 5741G - and that's all. Later, for few years I had a job as PC/laptop repair technician. Toshiba really simplified constructions for models since 2009 (like A660 for example). They were relatively easy to dissasemble. But many (not all) of their laptops from Core 2 Duo era were nightmare for me: hidden screws, all screws different and unique for particular model, poor quality latches, etc. I hated them.
Management, management & management… did I mention POOR management 🤔
Hahaha, very true
I think one of reason why Japanese companies are loosing because they do not have a competitive start up culture their government depend a lot on big companies and give them a lot of favor. While nothing in tech is permanent. Innovation is life line of tech industries.
Only Toshiba product that I actually bought was a 32GB memory stick, bought it somewhere in April 2019 and still works to this day. Would love to buy another one in the future, even if they come under another brand.
They're really famed for the small/portable storages, like SanDisk
Kioxia is the Toshiba successor for memory
@@wesleynishi6081 Exactly. I've visited their website too!
I used to have a Toshiba laptop, it was a Portége R930-133L, with a Core i7-3540M, 8gb of DDR3-1666Mhz memory, and a 640gb hard drive, it was bought second hand from my aunt's company auction, it's quite an old laptop originating from 2014, and suffered problems with the battery, body damage, and overheating issues, but over the course of one year it served me well, it's relatively powerful compared to other and sometimes more modern laptops due to its i7, the storage space is plenty, and it's pretty durable, a year later this laptop and an older Compaq Presario V3700 were traded for a much more recent Asus X441UV from 2017, and even though the Asus was better I still kinda missed that Toshiba, it was my first laptop that I actually own myself and it got me through pretty much everything, that laptop had a better CPU too, still remembered the whirring sound of the fan and the clicking of the HDD it'll make at startup.
I've never had a Toshiba laptop, but my father has had quite a few of them. I remember a couple of Toshiba Satellites, Tecras, and Porteges. Beautiful times.
Toshiba is the only company I could find still manufacturing the trusty and better CMR hard disks, while all the other major companies are scamming people by selling SMR hard disks without making them aware of it's big disadvantages. I am really saddened by Toshiba's downfall. :(
I owned Toshiba Satellite 17" back in 2006, it had a great screen and thin bezels all around which is crazy at that time.
I recently purchased an external portable hard drive for storage/backup. Its model name is, "Toshiba Canvio Ready 4TB". I hope it will serve me well for years to come 😊
I've still got a Toshiba Satellite C660 from 2011 now running Windows 10. It's slow but I passed so many courses at university thanks to it :D And it was the only laptop I had (it was my dad's work one but when he left the firm they didn't ask for it back lol) for many years up until 4 months ago when I started work myself :)
I used to own a lot of toshiba laptops and vimo laptops. I just like really thick laptops and durable
Ah, glad they served you well!
After owning one of their laptops that failed after a short period of time, I vowed to never buy another Toshiba. This was despite great and in my opinion, very light-weight use.
I've owned 2 Toshiba laptops, both still running even after I've changed/upgraded and given them away (and one is 15 years old running Windows XP!) I still go for Toshiba memory drives where I can (I have a 1tb HDD) and I'll reiterate what everyone else is saying. Toshiba laptops were always bulletproof. I dropped one twice and aside from popping the case back together you would not know, the keyboards were easy to replace and had massive liquid spaces so that spills didn't get into the workings of them and usb ports that saw 6+ hours of daily hard use over a decade or more are still working (though a little wobbly). They had amazing battery life (12 hours without WiFi, 8 with!) And cd drives built in with enough connectivity that I never needed an external port hub as well as removable/upgradable ram and full keyboards. Their only downside was that they were heavy but with all that tech you expect them to be. I only this year switched to Asus. Most of the perks of Toshiba with slightly better SSD/RAM but you lost the full size keyboard and expandable ram slots at the same entry level price point. My old Toshibas felt like they were built to last. My Asus feels throwaway somehow, maybe I'm just not used to such a lightweight chassis and it will go the distance (I doubt it). Toshibas main selling point, its durability, I think played a hand in killing it. In a world where phones are built to last 3 years max and most tech only has a 2 year guarantee its kind of riddiculous to even think of buying a laptop you expect to do more than be in one piece and do word processing on windows in a decade. They didn't build in obsolescence and so they lose repeat buyers. Dynabook doesn't have the same brand loyalty as Toshiba, and the build quality isn't the same afaik. It's a shame. Toshiba should always have had a place as the laptop for busy people who are a bit clumsy or commute on busy buses/trains and just need a workhorse computer but people who are like that in 2022 don't buy laptops, they pool the money and get the next best smartphone that does everything a laptop can do that they can afford instead. It looks to me like the only way to survive in the laptop space is to specialise in something most entry to mid level smartphones can't do, which lets face it, is gaming. And Toshiba's were a lot of thing, but gaming rigs weren't it
Still have my Toshiba from 15 years ago and it's still running like new. Don't use it anymore but I'm impressed with just how long it's managed to last