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Toshiba 14" Touchscreen Laptop (Refurbished)

BIG GUTS: 500GB hard drive, 6GB RAM
little body: 0.83" thick, 4.5 lbs
Poke, swipe, and pinch the 14" touchscreen and watch it do your bidding
Runs on Windows 10: maybe Microsoft is finally getting the hang of this whole “Windows” thing
Model: E45W-C4200X (“Easw-Cazoox” in l337-5p34k)

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Toshiba Gets Snopes'd

Yet another appearance by this Toshiba laptop seems like a good occasion to clear up some widespread misconceptions about Toshiba’s history. Because, really, what is so interesting about a device less than an inch thick that can hold thousands of songs and movies, and instantly parades the accumulated cultural and intellectual heritage of mankind before you with the merest brush of a finger? Let’s make a bunch of dumb jok- er, we mean, debunk of bunch of myths instead!

Reality: Toshiba’s name comes from the two companies that merged in 1939 to create it: Tokyo Denki and Shibaura Seisakusho.

Myth: Toshiba has to use a different name in Hungary because in Hungarian, “Toshiba” translates to “rabid bat”. The company decided that’s actually pretty cool.

Reality: Toshiba (ands its parent companies) was Japan’s first manufacturer of telegraph equipment, incandescent lamps, radar systems, microwave ovens, Japanese-language word processors, and laptops.

Myth: Toshiba was Japan’s first manufacturer of sleeved blankets, pet dental floss, or spray-on hair. They just jumped on those bandwagons.

Reality: In 1987, two executives at a Toshiba subsidiary were prosecuted for selling machines to the Soviet Union for use in making low-noise submarine propellors.

Myth: Toshiba executives have been sanctioned for shaving points in NCAA hockey games. The case was dropped when witnesses refused to testify.

Reality: Toshiba has recently entered the solar-power business in Germany.

Myth: Toshiba CEO Satoshi Tsunakawa topped the German charts in 2013 with an album of high-energy electronica entitled Love Power. The album stalled at #3.

Reality: Loyal Toshiba employees in Japan prefer Asahi beer, made by a company with interlocking business interests in common.

Myth: Loyal Toshiba employees weep openly every morning at the playing of the company anthem. That only happens on Mondays.