Toshiba Satellite Laptop Manual For My
Then I found out via Tim’s site that I would face at least a black mark by Toshiba contacting Auttomatic (the owners of WordPress.com blogs) and/or my hosting provider. I wanted to share these links publicly. Eventually found one, along with links for 100s of others. I’ve taken apart laptops for minor repairs/upgrades and never injured myself (or the laptop !)I looked for the Service Manual for my Toshiba P300 Pro.
Toshiba Satellite Laptop Manuals On My
Their flat and final response was “You do not have permission nor will it be granted to you in the foreseeable future.” As a result, all Toshiba material that was on my website is now gone, permanently.Many of you service laptops for a living. Since I was first contacted by Toshiba Australia’s legal department, I have been attempting to discuss with them the potential for me to continue to share their laptop service manuals on my site. And/or the possibility that Toshiba would take the same heavy legal hand against me that they did with Tim.So I’ve decided to keep the links to myself for now.Here’s what Tim wrote about the situation on his website : Summary of what Tim said on his siteI have unhappy news for you all.
Also that I’d had a customer service problem with them in the past (which they’d refused to resolve to my satisfaction). I am/was disgusted with what I was reading on Tim’s site and Toshiba’s policy on this. Perhaps in the future, with public opinion stacked in favour of open repair policies, they will change their mind.Tim’s laptop service manuals – My Response to Toshiba UKI posted my thoughts on Toshiba UK’s Facebook page. Let them know that you will avoid Toshiba products in the future, and will not recommend them to others, until they are as open with their information as are other competing companies. If you have been affected by Toshiba’s decision in refusing to allow me to share their repair manuals with you, I urge you to contact your local Toshiba representatives and let them know what impact this has had on you, your business or your livelihood. I’d like to thank each and every one of you for doing what you do.
So how is this less risky than repairing my own laptop?Also desktop motherboard manufacturers will sell you an open printed circuit board, that has big capacitors on it that could easily injure if not handled properly. If you ignore this, you do so at your own risk”I’ve replaced an engine in a car using a service manual, engines have moving parts that can rip your arm off in an instant and gasoline (petrol) that can cause major explosion that could burn you to death. I totally reject this, and say this is just spin to cover up there real motive, which is to stop you repairing your own laptop so you have to buy a new one, or their “cartel” of authorised repair agents get the work.Also they could easily include a disclaimer on the first page of the manual – “Dismantling a laptop caries a risk of injury, therefore all repairs should be carried out by a qualified professional. Bullshit.What total and utter rubbish, I’ve worked on desktop PCs live (power on 240v going into the machine), and never ever injured myself. This is on top of your customer service refusing to send me a new PSU on a brand new laptop.I wasn’t expecting a friend to chip in, and probably wouldn’t have posted this if he hadn’t:My Friend’s response: Time for a new manual Toshiba: “How to lose sales and alienate your customers, by Toshiba” DonCharisma.org Facebook Conversation Toshiba UK Toshiba’s argumentsIn ‘Freely’ distributing the service manuals, customers could injure themselvesToshiba’s spin trying to make themselves look responsible and like they care about their customers.
In any case Toshiba tend to use fairly standard PC hardware, so where’s the innovation/trade secrets in that. I could if I had the inclination and time, but I don’t. There are plenty of people with the skill and knowledge to do this. But you would deny me access to the service manual to repair MY OWN LAPTOP, and shout copyright ? You are starting to annoy me with that, really you are.Toshiba has proprietary information, trade secrets etc in their service manualsIf anyone wanted to copy Toshiba’s hardware all they have to do is buy and take it apart for themselves.
No it’s just manipulation, plain and simple. How is this a free market, how is this fair to small independent laptop repair shops, how is this fair to me if I want to repair/upgrade my own laptop. Your (Toshiba’s) little cartel of authorised repair agents want to keep their monopoly on repairing Toshiba laptop.
And I think it’s in the public interest that people are at least talking about these kinds of issues, perhaps boycotting Toshiba products. I feel strongly enough about this to let the readers of my blog know also. My decision is that I won’t knowingly buy anything Toshiba again.I’ve let Toshiba UK know what I think, and why I think it. I think their excuses and reasoning are absolute complete and utter bullshit. But, no, they want me (and you) to buy new ones when they break down.Personally I’m very annoyed about having been “censored” from being able to legally obtain a copy of the service manual for MY OWN LAPTOP(s).
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