Toshiba officially announces quiting the laptop business
By MYBRANDBOOK
Toshiba is joining the ranks of Japanese tech giants that have bowed out of the PC industry. It has been reported that Toshiba has quietly sold its remaining 19.9 percent stake in its Dynabook laptop brand to Sharp, officially exiting the laptop business, and really the PC business at large. The company had not been a major name in PCs for a while (it sold the 80.1 percent stake to Sharp in 2018), but this is still notable as the end to a 35-year chapter in the firm’s history.
The company was a pioneer in the portable computer space. Its T1100 from 1985 is widely considered the first mainstream laptop computer, and set a design template for portables that didn’t change much until Apple’s PowerBook line arrived in 1991. Toshiba thrived in the 1990s and 2000s with its Satellite, Portégé and Qosmio lines - this writer’s first laptop was a 13.3-inch Satellite from 2002.
It is not certain exactly what prompted Toshiba’s decline, although there are a number of likely factors. Toshiba’s failed bet on HD DVD didn’t help - it produced media-centric laptops whose main feature became useless once Blu-ray and streaming took over.
Toshiba is still a major name in computing through categories like printing and storage, and it has fingers in categories like energy and retail. The Dynabook brand will live on, for that matter.
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