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11/01/2006

Panasonic Toughbook CF-18 Durability Test

The 4.5-pound Toughbook CF-18 is built from the inside out for ruggedness. On the outside, you'll find a magnesium-alloy case, a swivel 10.4-inch outdoor-readable LCD display, and a moisture/dust-resistant keyboard. Video after the jump.
Panasonic reps showed off the ruggedness of the Toughbook by dropping it several times from about waist height and dousing the keyboard and screen with water. The laptops were also vigorously shaken and some people even stood on the laptops
[via TGdaily]

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Posted at 11/01/2006 03:24am by iggi
I need a long term review like this. My laptop has been splashed with coke like that and i kept working like the first day... but that drop was insane, i need that for my backpacking 2 months trips.
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Posted at 11/01/2006 04:28am by jasper
now they can do this i want a Blastproof laptop to go whit my Mercedes bomb proof car ;) but you can make your laptop Drop proof easily by just adding a Compact Flash hard drive instead of a Normal rotating HD just ad some padding at the corners and you have your self a dropproof laptop. just remove the moveing parts from a laptop.
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Posted at 11/01/2006 3:52pm by Macaca
Imho every notebook/laptop/tablet/handheld should be toughend: they're mobile devices so people wil take them out into the world, where dirt, fluids and drops are commonplace.
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Posted at 11/08/2006 1:27pm by Blathering1
Toughbook 18 WAS a great machine. The Toughbook 19 that out now tops it. I got a Toughbook 18 from USAT Corp http://www.usatcorp.com/ a while back and then had upgraded it to native wireless WAN, as in nationwide wireless area networking (I went with Sprint, but also avail in Verizon and Cingular). The new unit had wings on it! The guys at USAT Corp said the 18s used to have internal WAN that was not visible, but something with the FCC required the extra shielding, and these two 6” long wings on either side. Not a pretty thing. The Toughbook 19 has more power, more RAM (up to 4gb—waiting for Vista to use this much of course!) and a much brighter screen, and more battery life… and no wings. BTW—these guys at USAT Corp have been very straight up. I spoke with Lisa at 888-550-8728, they have some online ordering, but she new what was coming out from and when, and what I shouldn’t buy! Shop is for commercial mobility—so they have all the cool rugged gear—now I am going to get a car mount from them and a ‘flip-dock’ so I can leave it in tablet. Full rugged laptop, wireless everywhere, GPS, and a car mount that works in tablet…. Nice! Ditch the internal GPS though—unless you want to leave your laptop on your dashboard. -B1
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Posted at 11/08/2006 1:29pm by Blathering1
In fact-- if you look closely at the 18 in the picture with the Fiji water being poured on it, you can see the black wings for the wireless right next on the screen.
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