Notebook Torture Test Winner - Toughbook CF-29

Apparently this Toughbook stopped an AK-47 round in Iraq. Most impressive. The article is below, the article source is here: http://www.in-sourced.com/article/articleview/1590/1/1/

Panasonic's Toughbook CF-29 notebook has been named "Editor's Choice" in Laptop Magazine's April Torture Test. A ruggedized Toughbook notebook recently stopped an AK-47 round in Iraq. Two other front runners were the Itronix GoBook II (a made-in-Taiwan notebook also sold by Hewlett Packard as the nr3600) and Rugged Notebook's Rough Rider Jr. (also sold by Motorola as the ML 850), the CF-29.

"We froze the notebooks, subjected them to a simulated rainstorm, baked them for an hour, and dropped them three feet onto a layer of plywood over concrete," wrote Laptop magazine torture-tester Rich Malloy.



Praising the Panasonic for having the "fastest performance, incredible battery life, and unmatched durability," Malloy noted that "when all the dust settled ... (the Editor's Choice winner) clearly stood above all others."

Panasonic Computer Solutions Company president Rance Poehler was particularly impressed by the magazine's testing protocols which were, according to the editors, a "grueling gauntlet of durability trials designed to see whether these systems could meet the U.S. military's supertough specifications."

The flagship of the Toughbook(R) line, the CF-29 is Panasonic's fourth-generation fully ruggedized notebook designed to meet MilSpec STD-810F specifications, it features Intel(R) Centrino(TM)-compliant system architecture powered by a 1.2Ghz Pentium M CPU, up to 1GB of upgradable SD-RAM, three shock-isolated, anti-glare coated and daylight-readable screen options, a end-user removable 40GB or 60GB shock-and-vibration resistant hard drive, and up to four simultaneous integrated wireless options.