Hi All :)
I can vouch for these Panasonics... we have about 45+ of 'em at the
Oregon Military Academy... they survive NCO's and Officers alike with great
ease.... including falling off of humvee's onto dirt roads at the top speed
of Humvee's (sorry the manual says that the top speed is not for public
distribution hehe)
Note: these Panasonics are very spendy... and definitely not something
that most users are going to want as a result... but they will stand up to
lots of abuse that would kill a 'normal' laptop...
Art "Use both my HP Pavillion N5190 and a Panasonic Toughbook" Bahrs
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Toback" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 9:33 AM
Subject: [HP3000-L] Hardened Laptops (was: BEWARE: HP format PC HDD's)
> Denys Beauchemin wrote:
>
> >Laptops are amongst the most fragile things in the known universe. They
are
> >also the object of desire of thieves and they do not subscribe to the
> >universal law of gravitation, or rather, they over-subscribe to it,
heavily.
>
> National Public Radio did a piece a couple of weeks ago on "hardened"
> laptops, made primarily for the military but available to the general
> public, with some effort. The NPR reporter said that NPR didn't have a
> product testing lab, so she gave a sample "hardened" laptop (provided by
> Panasonic) to a trio of kids in her neighborhood, with instructions to
> break it.
>
> They started by pouring mustard and ketchup over the thing. Then they
> jumped up and down on it. Then they dropped it a bunch of times. Then
> they threw it against a tree a few times. Then they had someone run over
> it (twice) with an SUV. After each test, the machine booted up and ran
> with no problems. At the end, there was one latch that was slightly
> askew, and the screen was somewhat scratched.
>
> The story said the machines cost about twice what an ordinary consumer
> laptop costs for the same feature set.
>
> The story is available in RealAudio format at
> <http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20020328.me.08.ram>.
>
> -- Bruce
>
>
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