Comments on: Video Review: Panasonic CF-30 Toughbook

By: Technology blog » Review: HP Envy 13

Technology blog » Review: HP Envy 13 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:27:21 +0000

[...] It also had 3GB of 1067 Mhz memory. Its GeekBench score was 2375. To put this into perspective, this ToughBook scored 1893 and something like the MSI Wind it 837. This is, needless to say, a full-bodied [...]

By: iCU2 Blog » iCU2 Summer Almost Over

iCU2 Blog » iCU2 Summer Almost Over — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:15:02 +0000

[...] to replace the netbooks. You can run over it with a car so maybe I’ll be ok. Click this Toughbook video link and see how they get their name. I acquired one from a long time iCU2 user. Truly [...]

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 02:58:49 +0000

Yes. We also hit it with a Volkswagen.

http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/23/toughbook-tiger-elephant-technology-personal-test.html

By: Peter Ha

Peter Ha — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:25:53 +0000

I wouldn’t classify the Toyota Rav4 as a “truck”

By: Article Playground

Article Playground — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:38:35 +0000

We thought at first you meant taking a beating, like it was financially dissapointing. Well, it’s good to know that Panasonic is performing quite well in a recession :-)

By: mattsos

mattsos — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:38:29 +0000

wow i could take my anger out on it when my internet is slow. two in one

By: led display

led display — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:41:43 +0000

wow …let me check it out.

By: Dave Barnes

Dave Barnes — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:47:27 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_Browning_machine_gun

let me know the results

By: fb1266131014

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:48:37 +0000

We had toughbooks at a couple of ambulance services I worked for. In 15 years of being a paramedic, we’d broken
everything from needles to cardiac monitors. Never broke one of these though. I’ve seen them puked on, take a Double Gulp of Mtn. Dew, and fall about ten feet off of stuff and keep on ticking.

By: Michael Wales

Michael Wales — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:25:20 +0000

I forgot to mention – I constantly get amazing reactions to it, “That is the smaller computer I’ve ever seen.”

One of the primary reasons I bought it – small enough to fit into my daughters backpack, light enough to be thrown around like a frisbee and strong enough to withstand that punishment.

When we travel, I usually carry a backpack with an elastic mesh screen thing along the outside. It’s small enough to fit in that small mesh bag, no problem, with the A/C adapter.

By: Michael Wales

Michael Wales — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:21:24 +0000

I have a W-4 and although it’s weak in terms of hardware, it is the perfect portable developer’s laptop. I’ve dropped it, banged it around – always comes back ticking.

Only thing that really harmed it was dropping a pair of scissors on it in Iraq (the heavy, half-pounders that your teacher always had and never let you use). Landed on the keyboard danger side first, killed one of the tracks throughout the keyboard (so random letters ceased to function). $45 and a 10-min install later, it was back up and running – good as new.

By: fb5300804

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:23:00 +0000

Run over it a bit slower next time. Maybe with a lighter car.

By: doofdaddy

doofdaddy — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:34:03 +0000

Driving over it with a car is lame. If you really want to test it give it to my kids for a couple of days. If it can break it will.

By: Adam Jackson

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:27:14 +0000

I had a toughbook for work. waterproof, pretty heat resistant and can be dropped often from great heights. I really miss it but the trackpad, monitor resolution and speed sucked!

5K just gets you a slow computer that can handle anything!

By: Henry

Henry — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:09:59 +0000

The issue with the running it over with a car test is that if it ever happened in real life the laptop might survive but the owner would not. I would be more interested if the notebook was tested as a shield vs. a speed bump.

By: Video Review: Panasonic CF-30 Toughbook – Crunchgear.com — $200 Laptops

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By: earthworm

earthworm — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:47:50 +0000

Around for years, rock solid and great for anyone who has to wash more than germs off their hands at the end of a work day. For the average user, having one would is like driving an original Hummer through the burbs to the local coffee shop.

By: fb3406485

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:41:06 +0000

If you’re gonna run it over – run it over. I doubt in the event a laptop did get hit by a car, it would be as gingerly as your driver did.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:34:32 +0000

There was an article about this somewhere before I think and they shot the computer and had an elephant step on it and a tiger or lion bite it and it still worked afterward.