Have you tried to use your laptop in the shower?

I heard rugged laptops like toughbooks are able to withstand anything

1. Thread title. Also, what about bath use? That laptop on your lap in a hot shower

2. How's the touchscreen/typing/peninng experience while you are using your laptop in the shower?

3. Does it break your laptop or electrocute you?

4. Does shower use decrease the laptop's performance?

5. Does rugged vs semirugged matter for shower use?

 

You must have the rubber keyboard....

 

1. Thread title. Also, what about bath use? That laptop on your lap in a hot shower

Only one member I know tried it in the shower with his CF-18 and it killed his machine due to water getting one past one of the side ports or the keyboard port hole, later looking inside the seal was bad. The side port seals do wear out over time with wear.

2. How's the touchscreen/typing/penning experience while you are using your laptop in the shower?

Depending if you are using regular touch or digitizer, but it should behave as normal either way.

3. Does it break your laptop or electrocute you?

If the seals are old and water leaks in it should only kill the laptop, but if you have it plugged into the wall that may not work out too well for you either

4. Does shower use decrease the laptop's performance?

I would say only if it was a very hot shower and the heat was making the system throttle it's performance to say cool.

5. Does rugged vs semirugged matter for shower use?

Fully rugged would be the only way to go, they are the only ones that are fully sealed. Panasonic does what they can to keep the water out but doesn't warranty them against water.

 

I have dumped water on several Toughbooks,CF-18 and CF-H1 for a start. Tossed a CF-30 several times and had a beater H1 that really caught hell getting thrown on concrete as a demo.

I'm thinking of putting a CF-30 together from parts and parking my Dodge Ram 2500 V10 on it just because I can,just need some interest in the experiment.

 

The touchscreen will goof up,the H1 did that but I can't remember if it was the digitizer or the resistive touch that wouldn't work.

 

The lid can not handle that. It will crack.

 

as far as the water side of things goes ...
i believe the term "water resistant" more aptly applies .

 

I'm surprised. You see videos of people using smartphones underwater or see demonstrations of companies dumping their tablets in the water (fujitsu and sony come to mind)

But the keyboard makes it all fail?

Or perhaps fujitsu and sony's waterproof tablets would not hold up in a hot shower?

I just wanna watch movies and browse the web

 

With the rubber keyboard and all NEW OEM original port covers, it will hold up to water spray. Do a google search for toughbook testing..Panasonic does very thorough water testing. Problems arise as things age and may be replaced with aftermarket parts.
The emissive and standard keyboards are NOT designed for water, if they were Panasonic would not need to offer a rubber keyboard.

This all comes back to my original thought..WHY would you have a laptop in the shower? I can understand a pool or tub while relaxing, but a shower makes zero sense to me. In the shower, I am washing or with a partner. Neither situation requires a laptop computer. (laptop maybe) but NOT a computer.

 

The floor underneath the shower head I use has a large surface area. I lie down on the floor, sometimes on top of a towel underneath the shower head.

There's no bathtub.

That being said, are there perhaps separate windows tablets

The new sony waterproof tablet and a bluetooth keyboard seems like it might do the trick though if I can find a windows alternative that would be better. I'm gonna post in the fujitsu part of the forum to ask how a fuji windows tablet hold up. Ever tried a waterproof mouse or keyboard?

 

look for a toughbook h1 or h2

 

I would say any fully rugged toughbook would work with rubberkeyboard. Where the ones that failed I think the keyboard was rubber but water puddled up under the keyboard and got though the seal where the keyboard plugs into the motherboard. For a mouse and keyboard I would look for a bluetooth mouse and keyboard that is water proof. You don't want it corded, that would be a open port. That way you could put the pc above the shower head, and if it get a fine mist or splash is should be ok still as long as the ports are good.

http://www.ruggedtech.com/

Never used there stuff but they advertise water proof.

 

this....



or this



the official page...

http://www.panasonic.com/business/toughbook/why-spill-resistant-laptop.asp

 

Jesus... I vow to stay away and now I see why I did... I think this guy is trolling you.
Next question... Has anyone ever used their Toughbook upside down under an apple tree?

 

Balance it on my head and have someone shoot at it.

 

My son knocked a travel mug of hot black coffee onto my running MK1 CF-18 with an emissive keyboard. It was a few minutes before i worked out why he was looking so suspicious so it had plenty of time to leak around seals if it was going to.

I tipped the coffee off and it seemed fine but I powered down, left it upside down and opened all the ports to let it dry out in case any got inside, left it overnight and it was fine the next day. The keyboard is now on my CF-19 and the CF-18 are still going strong years later.

Just glad i don't take milk or sugar in my coffee as that would have probably gummed up the keyboard