Tag: TOSHIBA

The head of Toshiba's Italian division says the company is thinking about giving customers the option of ordering Tecra, Satellite, Portege and Qosmio notebooks with Linux preinstalled. Luigi Cattaeneo says the move would allow the company to sell notebooks in 500 Euro range, which could help Toshiba compete with European market leaders HP and Acer. The news comes at a time when Dell is preparing ...

What's the first thing you want to know whenever a new device comes out? Whether you can play Doom on it, of course. Okay, but the next question is usually whether you can install Linux. Well, you can't really do either with the Microsoft Zune yet, but that doesn't mean you won't be able to upgrade (or downgrade) it by replacing the preinstalled software with some open-source firmware. Rockbox is ...

Sony was hit hard with the battery recall mess that has been going on over the past few months. Now its time for the laptop makers to fight back, on a brand note. PC manufacturers believe that their brand images were tarnished due to the mass recall of Sony PC batteries. Apple, Dell, Hitachi, IBM, Lenovo, and Toshiba have all recalled batteries in fear those consumers machines may overheat and ...

Toshiba now recalls 340,000 laptop batteries that were made by Sony and were shipped with laptops made between March and May this year. The BBC states that the batteries may lose all their power. This is the largest battery recall in computer history (if you hadn't heard), and Toshiba joins an list of companies whom Sony has effectively screwed with bad batteries. The recall is in effect for ...