Koshdukai's Rants, Thoughts & Whatnots
2010-10-20
Broadcom SUCKS!
...and every company that uses their WiFi chips, also suck! :(
Yeah, I'm talking about you, Toshiba!
Love my Toshiba Tecra and Qosmio i5 and i7 laptops, but my latest one has the most stupid and sucky WiFi performance I've ever experienced, EVER!
Why ? Because someone at Toshiba decided to use Broadcom chips on the latest Satellite A665-11T
Worse thing ? Toshiba Support asked me to send that laptop back and... 3 weeks have passed and no news, no explanations, no solution, no laptop, no money back, nothing.
For now, I'm feeling as if those hard earned 1800€ have been just stolen from me.
*GRUNF*!
...not buying another Toshiba so soon, that's for sure.
(so that tasty Libretto W100 is absolutely out of the question now)
Same happened to me with ASUS... haven't bought an ASUS laptop for almost 2 decades, just because of a sucky support experience... they had my laptop for 3 months and it came exactly like it went, with the same problem, and only after I demanded that they gave it back.
UPDATE: 1 month later... the feared reply "Sorry for the late reply. That's how Broadcom chipset work." and... that's that. 1 month without the laptop, only to be told that I'm stuck with it that way.
*ARGH*! >:(
Labels: Broadcom, issues, Satellite, Toshiba, WiFi
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2010-06-22
Toshiba Qosmio X505-Q890 ...and NVIDIA® 3D Vision™ ?
Love my i5 Qosmio i5 and i7 Qosmios (yup, bought another one recently... and again, a family element snatched it from me, so I'm Qosmioless again, grunf... -.-'), so much that I'm waiting for a Toshiba Qosmio X505-Q890 version with nVidia's 3D Vision for stereoscopic gaming and 3D Blu-ray watching =)
...heck, if Toshiba launched the Satellite A665-3DV, why can't they do the same on the Qosmio line ?
so... I'm still waiting -.-'
...heck, if Toshiba launched the Satellite A665-3DV, why can't they do the same on the Qosmio line ?
so... I'm still waiting -.-'
UPDATE: As you may know, by reading the next post, I ended up buying the Satellite A665-11T and now I wished I hadn't :( ...found out the hard way, that Satellite IS NOT Qosmio.
The A665 specs look like a better Qosmio, it even includes the TV Tuner but the Broadcom WiFi chips are so crappy that makes the laptop almost unusable on a high density WiFi spot like my home is :(
Labels: 3D, Blu-ray, nVidia, Qosmio, Satellite, stereoscopic, Toshiba
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