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December 19, 2008

TOSHIBA SUCKS

Just realized that my Satelite Toshiba notebook is a dead trap for me. I bought it back in 2006 and it was a good “light” model, it came with only 512MB RAM. It was a “surf” model, one of those quick notebook you buy just to check emails and do some writing work. It was ok back then, its ok today.

The thing is, I tried to updated from 512MB RAM to 1,5GB RAM (bought 1GB RAM today) and it doesn’t work, it only shows me 894MB RAM.

My crazy brother look the problem up at Google and got like 20 people with the same prolem, the thing is Toshiba doesn’t allow you to upgrade that slot, they want you to take it to their support service ($50 USD) for it. One could think “I can do that!” but, you can’t. They made it impossible for the user, they leave you 1 slot (up to 1GB) and the other slot that has the 512MB of RAM is HIDDEN, sometimes under the keyboard depending the notebook model.

The trick is to pay them an extra $50-$100 USD to install 2GB… which is idiotic, because you could do it yourself (if you could know where the damn hidden slot is).

So, my advice: don’t buy Toshiba; they do this kind of stuff just to earn $50 bucks, which is patetic.

Toshiba: fuck you too!
P.S. My Notebook has now 894MB RAM, but I will use my nice EEEPC to do my surf work instead of my Toshiba. Asus has my respect!

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