Toshiba Recalls 41,000 Laptops Over Overheating

[iam2thecrowe]

[citation][nom]drwho1[/nom]not so good news for anyone with one of this.... I'm happy with my ACER and no over-heating issues.[/citation]

You have obviosly not dealt with Acer.....

 

[mayne92]

[citation][nom]kernel_sanderz[/nom]My Toshiba L505D is a great laptop. Unfortunately, I'll never buy Toshiba again, because they deliberately sabotaged their BIOS to prevent XP and Linux from running on it. The Linux kernel developers eventually developed a BIOS hack to fix the laptop, but all the same, I'll vote with my wallet for companies whose products work with Linux out-of-the-box.[/citation]
WTF?! Good way to blow it out of proportion. I highly doubt they "deliberately sabotaged" their BIOS to prevent XP and Linux from running on it. The Linux kernel developers made a workaround and I wouldn't call it a "BIOS hack" since they didn't modify the BIOS. lmao! Comes down to an engineering mistake...having done little to no testing of the machine with other OS's other than what would come pre-installed with the laptop is my sure GUESS...

someone is a little paranoid...

You will more often than not run into hardware/software compatibility issues with new hardware (or proprietary drivers) and Linux. I had to use good old, notorious "wrappers" to get my wireless networking working on my new Samsung netbook and I didn't think Samsung (or Realtek who actually made the card) sabotaged my card from me being able to use it with Linux...Maybe you should understand things a little more before you go ranting and raging with utter nonsense of conspiracy theories.

 

[yose3]

well i bought a gateway laptop to my gf and sister and thay dont overheat

 

[braneman]

yay my t115d-s1125 is fine, I really like it, only game it won't play on low is red faction guerrilla.

 

[makwy2]

That makes me a Sad Panda... mine is recalled. Now let's see how long it takes them to fix the problem

 

[Repelsteeltje]

Which laptop manufacturer can still be trusted to produce a quality product these days?... Either the whole industry is pushing the boundaries of technological feasibility a bit too far, or laptops and hence their individual components are too cheap to provide the functionality people think they're getting.

Note that Toshiba's new Portégé series has standard voltage processors inside... Talk about arrogance. The reviews are quite mixed, with some mentioning high temperatures and a noisy fan. Why tempt fate? Why not make a solid product that wouldn't be so prone to overheating?

 

[Guest]

It's not a short, I'm 99% sure this would be caused by a poor connection (low quality DC SOCKET) which has too high a resistance for the current passing through it.

 

[liquidsnake718]

Just get an ASUS or Lenovo. they are good laptops and dont generally have any recall problems to do with heat issues.

 

[iam2thecrowe]

+1 for lenovo, the only brand I would really trust these days. I'd actually still buy toshiba though as, apart from this incident which at least they are fixing, they have a good track record. Im pretty sure most brands have had recalls, or if they havn't they probably didnt recall them, just left them faulty until someone complained...I know of some...had the pleasure of fixing them....

 

[adpo]

*looks* no t235, im safe!

 

[EXT64]

It seems Toshiba laptops have been having a lot of issues recently. Or maybe that is just all laptops.

 

[B16CXHatch]

This recall is outside the one I got but I returned a Toshiba to OfficeDepot in April of 09 for overheating. It stopped functioning within 30 minutes. I traded it in for another HP which I still happily use today.

 

[rexter]

[citation][nom]Riotpakk[/nom]It's not a short, I'm 99% sure this would be caused by a poor connection (low quality DC SOCKET) which has too high a resistance for the current passing through it.[/citation] You're probably right that it's not short because a short will immediately fry the system or get the transformer gets really hot but it's not a resistance problem either, higher resistance means less current mean less power means less heat.

My opinion is the regulator or any other circuitry close to the terminal plug take so much current; if any of this circuitry produces so much heat then it will melt the plastic around it. First and foremost, look at the transformers power and you’ll see that some could send 19 Volts multiply by 4.5 Amps = 85.5 Watts. Some sends even more current.

 

[jhyukkang]

hmm that makes sense. but even at full load power consumption shouldnt exceed 50W with this low voltage cpu.
if battery was also being charged at the time when laptop is fully loaded with work, i think that might exceed 75W.
i have never seen this laptop going over 45W with this power saving software that toshiba preinstalled. but this was when battery was full

 

[milktea]

So many laptops have over heating issues. I just hope that, that doesn't happen to my Samsung Captivate. 😛