I am surprised that you had such bad luck with Toshiba. I bought my first Toshiba laptop based on input from a client, who was a drilling engineer in the middle east. He had used every brand, in the desert on the hood of a pickup truck and the Toshiba was the only one that never failed him. My first one performed flawlessly and I dropped my second one from a car rental counter in Logan Airport(Boston) about 41/2 feet to a tile floor. It kept on ticking like the they said in the old Timex commercials.
I am now on my 3rd one, spanning about 11 years and have passed the old ones onto my daughter and grand daughter and they are still working, although my grand daughter is complaining about windows 98, which I upgraded from the original windows 95.