Toshiba Agrees To Sell Its PC Business To Sharp For $36 Million

[Lucian Armasu]

Toshiba sold its PC unit for $36 million to Sharp, after struggling in the PC market for years and experiencing other financial troubles.

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[rwinches]

They never regained their glory after being banned for selling submarine sound deadening tech to the Russians.

 

[vern72]

It's the end of an era. What a shame. I owned two of their laptops and they were fairly good. I just didn't like the lack of options in their BIOS.

 

[punkncat]

I have a Toshiba Satellite that is approaching 10 and has and continues to be outstanding for what I use it for. I only recently had to replace the battery. Been a good one.

 

[Reynod]

Back in the day their laptops were outstanding ... the early A100 series laptops were bulletproof. The M400's were good, and I still have a Protege 700 running. Then they went downhill. All good things end.

 

[gggplaya]

WTF, Sharp has $36million dollars to spend????

 

[velocityg4]

Although I haven't set one up in a while. Any Toshiba I set up for a client always had way more bloatware than you normally see, killing performance. They also load on many superfluous utilities which duplicate OS functions. Their products have just been garbage.

 

[punkncat]

Although I haven't set one up in a while. Any Toshiba I set up for a client always had way more bloatware than you normally see, killing performance. They also load on many superfluous utilities which duplicate OS functions. Their products have just been garbage.

I have NEVER purchased a computer that I didn't reformat (after I learned how) or at least spend a while to go through and disable most/all of that. I found, particularly in Toshiba's case, that almost everything in there was a duplicate of something Windows already did. I did always enjoy the "Eco mode" though.

 

[velocityg4]

Although I haven't set one up in a while. Any Toshiba I set up for a client always had way more bloatware than you normally see, killing performance. They also load on many superfluous utilities which duplicate OS functions. Their products have just been garbage.

I have NEVER purchased a computer that I didn't reformat (after I learned how) or at least spend a while to go through and disable most/all of that. I found, particularly in Toshiba's case, that almost everything in there was a duplicate of something Windows already did. I did always enjoy the "Eco mode" though.

Unfortunately most people aren't willing to pay for the additional time spent on a Vanilla reinstall of Windows. So, I just clean out the bloatware. Since I build all my desktop computers this hasn't been an issue for me. All my laptops have been freebies from clients tossing still decent laptops. Which got a clean install.