Panasonic Toughbook

[nil8]

Here's an article that goes in depth in the rigors Panasonic puts its Toughbooks through. I thought it was really cool. I fell in love with the little bastards after I saw an EMT drop and kick one across the ambulance garage while on with no damage.
Enjoy.

http://www.trustedreviews.com/notebo...-ToughBooks/p1

[luciusad2004]

Wow, thats pretty cool. Its nice to know that there is a company out there that takes pride in how well there laptops can take abuse. I almost want to buy one just to take it outside and sit in the snow.

[Bucko]

Maybe a Toughbook is what I should buy for my laptop. It sounds like it would handle being transported to work and back each day on my Murdercycle without complaint.

[nil8]

They carry a hefty pricetag, but their warranty and testing make up for it. If you can afford it and have a tendency to break conventional laptops, they're what you want.

[AJ@PR]

I want one.
I don't "need" one.
But I want one.
mmmmm....

[XcOM]

http://www.toughonline.com/features.asp?item=1015
the big boy one, i got a tough book, a very old orange one that transco used to use, still as good as new,

[Foxtrot9000]

man now i want one! to bad im poor =)

[simon275]

I read about one of those in a magazine a while ago they dropped it off tables and poured coke on it and put it through the nightmare of LAN tests.

[nil8]

Toughbooks take insane amounts of abuse for laptops and still manage to work. If I could afford one and had a use for it, I would buy one. Hell, I would get one just to drop on occasion and continue to play quake 3 on it.

[Omega]

My mom's boyfriend has a very small one. It's pretty badass -- We ran over it in our Ford Escape on purpose -- while it was running -- to see if it could withstand it.

...It did.