If you've ever dropped your notebook computer on a concrete floor, or spilled coffee over the keyboard, or caused other accidental death or dismemberment to it, you might be just a... more
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If you've ever dropped your notebook computer on a concrete floor, or spilled coffee over the keyboard, or caused other accidental death or dismemberment to it, you might be just a little hesitant about picking up another one. If so, Panasonic's ToughBook 45 is for you. Panasonic understands that accidents can happen to everyone, so they've designed their notebook to survive if an accident happens to come your way. ToughBook 45 features a magnesium-alloy case and shock-mounted hard drive, as well as the plain old processing muscle you need to get the job done. Panasonic's ToughBook 45 uses a fast mobile processor, plenty of RAM, capacious hard drive giving you enough space to store all your applications and files, and a large active matrix color display that gives you plenty of space to view your work.
Advantages: Tablet style flip screen, built in functionality Disadvantages: ???
...and these devices are often dropping out of range for GPRS where a phone can get reception. The WiFi has been very good reception, no loss of signal quality or dropping of connections. Battery life is also good now as Panasonic have incorporated Centrino technology which utilises the Pentium M 900Mhz CPU which consumes the least power of the range of processors, giving a significant increase in battery life, we can now almost get a full days use out of these things (7 hours).
Durtability has also been much better than it's predecessor, they don't feel as strong on the outside as the 34 but Panasonic have realised the amount of hard disks that were failing and decided to mount the CF-18 disk in a jelly like substance to further absorb the shocks created by chucking these things around (which people just can't resist when they read Toughbook on the lid...
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...exclusion as the performance is just not good enough. The CF-18 is the replacement model, has better keys, centrino technology (extended battery life), built in WiFi, Bluetooth, GPRS, GSM, Tablet style screen etc and is a much better offer but looking bck it wasn;t too bad a start for panasonic in this range of toughbooks, there's still room for plenty of improvement!...
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Advantages: Hard wearing, good quality, valur for money Disadvantages: Chunky and heavy
...This panasonictoughbook really is a tough, hard wearing laptop. You can drop it and it will still work. A work collegue actually drove his car over this laptop and it still worked exactly the same. It is a laptop that certainly lives upto its name. This baby puts the TOUGH in Toughbook.
Do not be put off by the extra weight, chunky and basic look of this laptop. Remember looks can be deceiving.
The keyboard is one of the best I have used on a laptop. The mousepad is not as nice but hey this is a toughbook. Hit the pad hard and it works like a dream.
You have all thefunctionality and speed of aPentium 4 1.8ghz processor backed up by 256mb of ram. So not only do you get a hard wearing laptop butit is quick too.
The hard drives in these I have found are a bit suspect. In some of the machines they work fine for ages. In others...
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24.03.2005
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