[jkarolyi]

Toshiba used to be the best in the laptop business...I've owned eight of them all the way back to a 286! but in the past four years their quality has dropped sharply. They used to make them in-house in Japan, but four years ago they started to outsource design and production. My last two Toshibas have had a lot of problems...my latest one (the Sat. Pro 6100) had a class action lawsuit on it because it had so many bugs! Mine has been back to the factory three times in two years.

BTW, your hard drive was probably made in China like most other electronics these days. Let me guess...you didn't keep good backups? I work in IT also, and the angriest clients I've ever experienced are those who don't do regular backups.