Rugged ToughBook CF-W4

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This sleek, semi-rugged Toughbook from Panasonic may help you withstand more than just the usual pressure from the office. The build quality of this PC is such that you could apply more than 100kg of weight to the chassis and it would still function.

IfPanasonic ToughBooklaptops were one big happy family, the ToughBook CF-W4ultraportable notebook would be the little sister who grows upsurrounded by nothing but big brothers and has to act the toughtomboy to hang.

Not to putthe new ToughBook's toughness down, but it surely isn't as badassas say its rugged oldersibling the CF-29. For instance, where its big brothers the CF-29and CF-18 are guaranteed to survive a drop of about a yard, theCF-W4 is only guaranteed by Panasonic to survive at 30centimeters, or about a foot.

Still, the new CF-W4 is tougher than your average superslendernotebook. Try dropping any other from that distance, and see howfast your hard drive powers up the next time you boot up. Andlike any tough little sister, the CF-W4 is stronger than itssize. The CF-W4 can bear the brunt of about 100kg of weight puton top of it-all the while it weighs only 1.29 kg.

But with brawn comes beauty. This ToughBook is sleek-looking PC.One attractive feature is its optical drive. Like pastToughBooks, the CF-W4 has the special Panasonic drive that popsout from the right palm rest, with just a flip of a switch. It'sonly a DVD player, CD read-write drive, so looks will have to bemore important to you than substance. Another cool feature: thenotebook strap that allows you to palm the computer in one hand,type with the other.

As for the insides of the cute little ToughBook CF-W4 laptop, youget Centrino power with a Pro/Wireless 2915ABG wireless adapterand a 1.2 GHz Pentium M with 512MB of DDR2 memory, along with40GB of hard drive. Other hardware include a Ethernet adapter (noBluetooth), built-in modem, two USB 2.0 ports, PC Card slot, anda SD card slot, among other things.

The Toughbook Elite was a winner of a coveted Laptopical laptopaward in2005. The good folks over at Trusted Reviews also found much topraise with the latest edition of this rugged offering fromPanasonic.


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