Every indication (aesthetically) is that it's a relabelled Toshiba (or Toshiba's are relabelled BenQ's?). Having been a computer tech for 23 years, and a laptop tech since the early days, Ive learned to stay away from any recent (8 years or newer) Toshiba. At any price. Heck, I got some free ones in not too long ago and parted them out.
I still remember the A135 and A106 fiascos, (gee, does the casing on that BenQ look familiar?) and the nightmare with the Qosmio G15 (bad motherboard design requiring mobo replacement that took 1 month for... guess what? A newer board design that was STILL bad!) And those weren't isolated issues... I was the laptop tech for a big CompUSA and repaired or facilitated (to the manufacturers) about 200 machines a month.
Guess which brand came in for repair the most? Now guess which brand came in more then EVERY other brand COMBINED?
Toshiba's leadership in sales (at least at that time) did not account for the large discrepency in failed machines. So... BenQ that looks like (and may be) a Toshiba... no thanks, unless it's free, shipping and all.
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Every indication (aesthetically) is that it's a relabelled Toshiba (or Toshiba's are relabelled BenQ's?). Having been a computer tech for 23 years, and a laptop tech since the early days, Ive learned to stay away from any recent (8 years or newer) Toshiba. At any price. Heck, I got some free ones in not too long ago and parted them out.
I still remember the A135 and A106 fiascos, (gee, does the casing on that BenQ look familiar?) and the nightmare with the Qosmio G15 (bad motherboard design requiring mobo replacement that took 1 month for... guess what? A newer board design that was STILL bad!) And those weren't isolated issues... I was the laptop tech for a big CompUSA and repaired or facilitated (to the manufacturers) about 200 machines a month.
Guess which brand came in for repair the most? Now guess which brand came in more then EVERY other brand COMBINED?
Toshiba's leadership in sales (at least at that time) did not account for the large discrepency in failed machines. So... BenQ that looks like (and may be) a Toshiba... no thanks, unless it's free, shipping and all.