Re: My experience with Satellite A200

Bought a Satellite A200 March or February, since the purchase, he really began to think that I made a BIG mistake. Cost me $2000 purchase and only after it home and unpacking, I found that my new laptop in TWO THOUSAND dollar do not even have an audio output jack, it seems that most - Toshiba laptops on the $500au and brand make. "Oh, but it has an HDMI output! Well, Yes, yes it does! But it's the majority of the other laptops at prices similar, as standard alignment for those of us not rich enough to afford a new stereo system, whenever something new comes out, or those of us who are quite satisfied with the performance of our current systems of the stereo and do not want to buy a brand new just for a single input format that do not have our existing elements...

Then...

About 2 months after the purchase, he did his first total shutdown due to overheating. Interesting, I thought... Hope that does not happen. Which he did. With more frequency, until finally he did at least once every 10 minutes, was similar to the other guy with of the A300. Well, I thought, call Toshiba service. They were very helpful, accommodating the pickup and warranty repairs. Repairs resulted in a bit of dust on, (Strange, considering that he is kept in a totally clinical environment) and, which I think was the real problem of cleaning of the relocation of the CPU.

EU return 2 days later, works very well. Now, less than a month after the repairs, it did 2 days ago. So far, that he did not have a recurrence, but good, give him time no doubt.

My biggest concern is, if this kind of thing is going to happen once every 6 months or if, after the warranty runs out so what? I have a COP then a dollar-big success for maintenance every 6 months? The literally of hundreds of different laptops that I and my friends and family have / have had, it of the only one I've never seen act like that and for the price, features less of most of them, I mean, no audio line output? What the hell is with that? Taken most of laptops headset can be switched on the fashion line, a fairly simple task, but not this one...

I must say Toshiba, as a loyal for many years, since I bought my first portable stereo Toshiba in the beginning of the 1980s, or about, I am completely underwhelmed, to the point of giving the phone to my wife as a birthday gift and into my office of Athlon powered 32-bit of aging (I bought the Toshiba to replace rofl).

I really should better until I bought it even though it has a radeon. To say all this. Same Halflife 2 which was made for the Radeons, has graphic problems running on the subject which are serious enough to put me off ever replay on the A200. Neverwinter Nights is substantially the same, although admittedly, it is more likely a problem of Vista than the Radeon.

Anyone else had a similar chance with one of these laptops? They should really be much better for their specifications

I have an A200 and had no problems with it. I don't play games on it, but this isn't really a game machine. I would have bought a Qosmio if I wanted to play games: P

Both my laptops gather dust in the radiator and warm me, I need to remove the dust once a month to avoid unexpected interruptions. But that is how it is with the PC, they will still collect dust and possibly overheating.

I had a few laptops different, none of them have a feature audio line. I guess you have to buy a model that focuses on the media side of things (again, the Qosmio series).

Off course for everyone the experience is different, all I can say is that I am generally satisfied with the A200. He does the work :)

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