Year end Outliner/PIM review/roll call

Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 5, 2016 at 01:12 AM

MadaboutDana wrote:
>My interest in Chromebooks has been revived by the astonishingly good
>Toshiba (with HD screen)

It is a very nice machine but I’d be wary due to the fragile screen problem which Toshiba apparently refuses to service under warranty and blames the user for. Toshiba is in financial trouble and they’re selling the computer division, so dealing with warranty claims is either not their priority or they can’t afford it. See this discussion for more info:

https://www.reddit.com/r/chromeos/comments/3xut18/toshiba_warning_buyer_beware_horrible_warranty/

and especially this for all the user reports:
https://www.reddit.com/r/chromeos/comments/3xut18/toshiba_warning_buyer_beware_horrible_warranty/cy8fpur

>I appreciate your decision re: Windows 7, but would recommend a second
>look at Windows 10.

Thanks for the suggestion. For now I don’t have much incentive to try Win10, as my new Win7 laptop is running perfectly with all my weird and wonderful old software and I’d hate to mess that up. For light computing I have my Chromebooks…

I’ve been following Win10 user reports and it seems that there are a lot of things that can go wrong with some older software, not to mention Win10 updates randomly deleting software and such.

If you feel like hardware- and OS CRIMP-ing, I’d recommend the Asus Chromebook Flip instead of the Toshiba, as an Android tablet or iPad replacement (for people who are invested in the Google ecosystem), which is highly portable (10”), and could fill a gap between a smartphone and a full-sized laptop.