50-70 year consumer electronics reliability average curve since 1960...

[AiboPet]

I didn't know Quasar was also Matsushita (Panasonic). I do know all the little Panasonic Micros I have are REAL reliable as long as they haven't been tossed around too much. That little 9" B/W Quasar I rescued has a phenomenal picture for being such a pedestrian looking set.

I do have issue with Toshiba.....but it's a very ODD issue. EVERY single Toshiba laptop computer I have EVER owned.....is still alive and kicking. Having a laptop computer not die is a strange phenomenon. You will STILL "outgrow" the computer and replace it, but you end up with a HOUSEFULL of computers you can't really give to anyone!

My very first laptop was a 720-CDT running Win95. It still lives
Toshiba "Libretto" computers (I really love TINY)...all still live (FOUR of them)
Toshiba Satellite P105 from like five years ago...still alive (from when Vista came out)

THIS laptop....A QOSMIO! Just got it three months ago, because I "outgrew" the Satellite.

So, I still own and play with every Toshiba laptop I have owned since like 1995!

I've had HP laptops come and go, Compaq, Dell (YUCK!) and COUNTLESS printers of one kind or another, but have never had a Toshiba fail me. I do also hafta give a shoutout to a Fujitsu "N-series" laptop that still lives for around ten years now as well.

I'm not sure I have ever owned a Toshiba TV set though. I guess I still would if I had ever gotten one :-P

[waltchan]

Originally Posted by AiboPet

I didn't know Quasar was also Matsushita (Panasonic).

Yes, Quasar was bought by Matsushita from Motorola somewhere during the 1970s. If you lived in Hong Kong before, National is also owned by Matsushita, and it's the Asian Panasonic-brand type.

Originally Posted by AiboPet

EVERY single Toshiba laptop computer I have EVER owned.....is still alive and kicking. Having a laptop computer not die is a strange phenomenon. You will STILL "outgrow" the computer and replace it, but you end up with a HOUSE FULL of computers you can't really give to anyone!

My very first laptop was a 720-CDT running Win95. It still lives
Toshiba "Libretto" computers (I really love TINY)...all still live (FOUR of them)
Toshiba Satellite P105 from like five years ago...still alive (from when Vista came out)

THIS laptop....A QOSMIO! Just got it three months ago, because I "outgrew" the Satellite.

So, I still own and play with every Toshiba laptop I have owned since like 1995!

Wow, you own all the higher-end, most-expensive Toshiba laptops, so that's why they lasted well on you. If you purchased most of them from Hong Kong, they were all Made in Japan.

As far as I know, the most-expensive Toshiba products appear to last longer than Panasonic (yes), Sony, Sharp, Hitachi, JVC, Mitsubishi, and etc... I've seen more Panasonic CRT TVs and DVD players died in the first 10 years than with Toshiba. There are more number of used Toshiba (Made in Japan) DVD players selling on eBay right now than Panasonic.

I sent this message before to a tech regarding Toshiba who regularly sell VCR parts at studiosoundelectronics.com, but he didn't believe me at first. While he still has a lot of favoritism toward Panasonic and Sharp, he agrees that they aren't the most-reliable, and he finally admits today that Toshiba built the most-reliable VCRs from the 1980s.

Originally Posted by AiboPet

I've had HP laptops come and go, Compaq, Dell (YUCK!) and COUNTLESS printers of one kind or another, but have never had a Toshiba fail me.

These American laptop brands usually have a higher-than-average repair rate for years now.

Originally Posted by AiboPet

I do also hafta give a shoutout to a Fujitsu "N-series" laptop that still lives for around ten years now as well.

All Fujitsu laptops were Made in Japan before 2008, and Fujitsu Japan competed well with Toshiba Japan for reliability.

Originally Posted by AiboPet

I'm not sure I have ever owned a Toshiba TV set though. I guess I still would if I had ever gotten one :-P

Don't bother owning one. They have problems. All Toshiba TVs sold today are outsourced and made by Compal in China or Mexico (#18). These are NOT real Toshiba TVs, but more of re-badged Toshiba TVs from various manufacturers.
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[Sandy G]

[QUOTE=AiboPet;3038084]I didn't know Quasar was also Matsushita (Panasonic). I do know all the little Panasonic Micros I have are REAL reliable as long as they haven't been tossed around too much.


Aye-Yup. I have 2 CT-101s, the 1.5" color CRT sets, one I bought new, the other I got off an AKer, its case is all broken/cracked, but it STILL works...I WISH Panasonic had bothered to spend more than 3.5 cents on the case for their "Flagship" product...My "Good" one ain't perzacly all that great-the case on it, well, all you can say is it keeps you from putting yr fingers where they ought not to be, but that's about it.