Panasonic Announces Toughbook SX2

[Guest]

Panasonic has upgraded its Toughbook with Intel's Ivy Bridge processors.

Panasonic Announces Toughbook SX2 : Read more

 

[kitsunestarwind]

Call me when it can survive a couple of meters fall

 

[A Bad Day]

If there were rugged smartphones or tablets...

 

[pliskin1]

[citation][nom]A Bad Day[/nom]If there were rugged smartphones or tablets...[/citation]
There ARE rugged smartphones and tablets. Samsung Rugby and Casio G'zOne are two rugged phones. The Pantech Element is semi-rugged tablet.

 

[abbadon_34]

they have two classes, one for semi-rugged for business (like a housing contractor) and one fully rugged (approved for military used in BFE)

smartphone and tablet they got, but it'a easiest cheapest just to get a case or cover

 

[southernshark]

Have a plastic gateway laptop that survived a 2 meter fall onto concrete. I am glad that it was not made out of aluminum, the plastic did a much better job of absorbing the impact.

 

[spookie]

The new SX2 model comes with a 2.6 GHz Core i5-3320M vPro CPU, a 12.1-inch 1600 x 900 pixel display, 4 GB DDR3L-1333 memory, a 320 GB 5400 rpm HDD, as well as a 720p webcam in a 3.1 lbs package.

Prices start at $2,649.

At that price I expect a 14" and a minimum resolution of 1920x1080, and 1tb HDD plus a SSD. 6GB RAM would also be better...

 

[assasin32]

Spookie it's designed to take a beating and if I remember a lot more abuse than whats listed on this article and for a very small market so there is markup since they aren't selling in volume, but off hand I think they are probably the only major supplier of rugged notebooks like this.

 

[greghome]

[citation][nom]spookie[/nom]At that price I expect a 14" and a minimum resolution of 1920x1080, and 1tb HDD plus a SSD. 6GB RAM would also be better...[/citation]

It's a Toughbook, not an alienware.
It's like how a Thinkpad would cost more than your normal laptop. Most of the Engineering goes to making it tough and suitable for the business environment

 

[icemunk]

I think should have an SSD. One of the first thing that goes on laptops, are their hard drives.

 

[anonymous_user]

12.1-inch AND 1600 x 900? Why can't bigger notebooks have such nice resolutions? Its hard enough finding a 14-inch with that resolution.

 

[Guest]

"A Bad Day :
If there were rugged smartphones or tablets..."

I'm actually writing this from a rugged tablet. Motion Computing F5v.

 

[cookoy]

the price is a bit tough to justify on my company's books

 

[nebun]

really, only 30 inches? thanks but no thanks

 

[Guest]

A round touchpad with a rectangle screen. Something doesn't seem right about that lol.

 

[JBB-SaDo]

Wouldn't a SSD be more likely to survive a drop vs a regular HD? Being that there are no moving parts.

 

[jacobdrj]

Really? No SSD?
At these price points, it only occasionally makes sense to get a Toughbook rather than buy multiple laptops and keep replacing them. At the same time, Really? No SSD?

Come on...