Consumers, as a whole, are very uneducated

Originally Posted by TubeRacer

HOW WOULD YOU RATE YOUR SATISFACTION IN THESE COMPANIES?

Here's my list, with a few others in the electronics & computer area -

Compaq - 80%
Dell - 95%
Microsoft - 95%
Nintendo - 95%
Toshiba - 0%
Sony - 15%

Microsoft and Nintendo both make excellent products. I swear by Windows and am a happy user of their Visual Studio software, and Nintendo makes the best games and consoles out there.
I'm also very happy with Dell. My newest computer is from them and it's six months old, giving officially six times the life span of my Toshiba laptop and making it so far half as long lived as my old Compaq laptop (anyone wanna guess why this one's a deskopt? XD). And for $700 it's pretty dang powerful... I couldn't touch something like this from most other makers for less than a hundred dollars more, make it three if you count the printer and flat screen monitor I got for free.
Compaq is okay. My old Compaq laptop has certainly lasted a good deal longer than the laptop before it, and is less problematic considering it does more than spark and hiss when you turn it on xp It's in poor shape now, but it still turns on so when I'm on the go I still have somewhat of a laptop to take with me, even if it's not nearly as good as it was brand new.
Toshiba, on the other hand, they make crap. Literally. They've probably got a crap factory in Iowa pumping out crap to ship out to the rest of the country for farms for manure. My old laptop from them, it lasted a month, died, I got it repaired, it lasted another few months, died, I got a new comp and since then have referred to Toshiba as Toshitba. I will never buy a single thing from them ever again, even if the next cheapest alternative is ten times the price.

Jam it back in, in the dark.