Folks at Akihabara have received the latest Panasonic Toughbook F8 Business Rugged Laptop. Although it looks nothing like what you would call slim, they have found it to be surprisingly lightweight. Currently, the SRP is between $2,099 to $2,499.
It does have some fancy, outstanding features, as you can see in the gallery below, it comes in a variety of sizes and two of the larger ones have got its DVD drive ‘built-in’ and opens like a vent, which makes me think that could be a great way to prevent it from overheating! It also has a rather awkward looking handle which allows users to carry it like a suitcase. More pictures in the gallery below…
[via Akihabaranews]
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I hear it is really sturdy as notebook, which interests me as currently a notebook does not last me more the 12 months as I just cannot take care of them that well. I got a bag with wheels and I just cannot drive it properly without bumper bashing. Need to go and check it out.
But That disc cover lit looks pretty fragile in some way… Is this stuff really tough?! I still prefer to have a side-open disc tray, much safer.
Opening the CD player to prevent overheating is a very bad idea
1. It will expose the lens and ruin it.
2. Keyboard becomes unusable
3. CPU is on the oposite side of the PC and there will be allmost no effect on temp.