So I wipped a Toshiba laptop against the wall...

It felt so God damn good! ahhhhhhh the refreshment of whipping a laptop against the brick wall... OHHHH AHHHHHH!!! Rob is in heaven now!

 

dudunt happen to have intergrated web cam did it? need one of those

 

yep such a nice refreshing feeling, wonder how the wife would feel if i did that with a few gateways and a couple of those pesky macbooks. I could use a little stress relief tonight.

 

OK, now try a ToughBook and lets compare

 

one more scratch on the top corner of a cf-29

 

OK smart@ss... now lets see you make it work again.

mnem
Pizza for beginners.

 

That does not compute...

 

I have also an Toshiba (Tecra M7) and I don't understand his good feel to destroy such a pretty good machine. Maybe to much tv?

 

I'm suggesting he double up on his medication.
CAP

 

This is one of the many reasons as to why I tend to dislike the majority of Toughbook owners. Just elitists who think that destroying in expensive piece of equipment is fun and good. I feel sorry for you.

 

Welcome to our forum!

 

Well, after my experience with my wife's Toshiba, if you were to hand me one, I'd whip it against a wall too.

"I tend to dislike the majority of Toughbook owners."
Elitists?? Really??
We just like equipment that you can use for WORK!

Not some pansy a** pile of plastic that can't take a bump or a drop or two.
Ever been bitc*-slapped with a toughbook?
Would you like to be?

Besides, who said that laptop was working, or even repairable??
Go back to your etch-a-sketch...

 

OMG, I hate all of you! (Well really just this "CZX58 Shadow" character) First of all it was in the garbage to begin with! OKAY!!?! DO YOU REALLY THINK I'd destroy a perfectly good laptop!?!?!?! NO!!! I'D SELL IT and make money!

Second of all it was a Pentium 2/233.

Third of all it had a BAD mobo, BAD screen (was already cracked), BAD optical drive, BAD floppy (Like that even matters), BAD battery, MISSING KEYS from the keyboard which I had none to replace them with, CRACKED touchpad and BAD power socket as well!

COME ON GUYS!

~Rob - pissed as all you idiots! ~

 

Rob.... I share your feelings as I also do Spingfield and gmgfarrand. (Good post!) Non-Toughy owners just don't know until they experience it.

Just make sure you dispose of the batteries properly!

<snickering>

 

....dislike

and for the protocol: to destroy something even if it is defective is not that, what an adult man would do. Thats more like a boring child game.

And my Tecra M7 is has a spill-resistant keyboard; HDD protection (3D sensor to protect data); magnesium casework. So not only a toughbook is made for work. That's why there are different types of laptops.

I don't understand ur actions JB007. If u want to make money from anything, why don't u sell ur crap and let the hate against other minds be and also the poke against someone.

 

This is the kind of thing that happens when a tard from another forum, probably an apple user, comes here..

 

"to destroy something even if it is defective is not that, what an adult man would do. Thats more like a boring child game."

Wha?! Seriously??
Umm... some people make some seriously good money by destroying things...

plus it liberating to a degree to watch a pile of garbage get blasted to pieces.
I was rather excited watching my car get smashed and the windows break, and the airbags deploy, I would have enjoyed it more had I not been DRIVING it.

Yeah, cause it's no fun to destroy stuff that doesn't work anymore with either guns or explosives... (rolling eyes)
Some of you need to lighten up...

"why don't u sell ur crap and let the hate against over minds be and also the poke against someone."

What the hell does that mean?

 

Um.... Onirikkiss is a VERY respected member of THIS forum.... Apologies will be accepted.... I'm sure. As far as the Toshiba owner.... Well...

As Americans... We sometimes get carried away with the "Cowboy Mentality" (Or testosterone) that people from other countries can't understand... Just like when we talk about guns or any other number of things... We like destroying things... It's in our blood.

 

"We like destroying things... It's in our blood."
Aye, Agreed.

Let's call the toshiba incident a rapid disassembly, you know, for the more "sensitive" countries.

 

You dislike and generalize people based on the brand of their notebook computer ownership?

Is this due to some sort of anthropomorphic personification where you feel "sorry" for the "poor little Toshiba?"

Are you confident that this is the statement of a mentally healthy adult human being?

Would you be comfortable with your real name at the top of this posting and having it attached to your next job application?

And you pity us?

 

I like the work expensive, especially when the unit was worthless.. Well, it WAS a Toshiba after all...

 

+1 !! Heavy metals in the batteries and mercury in the CCFL backlight.... Keep the toxins out of the landfill so they don't leech into our groundwater! Now if only the other 3 billion cell phone batteries...

 

If there is so much faith in your Toughbook, whip it against the wall and see what happens. Be sure to YouTube it for us all to see.

Just because something doesn't meet your needs doesn't make it worthless.

 

Hey guy!! I did that! Well I stomped on it as hard as I could and it made a MINOR crack in the metal top. See this thread here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/tou...magnesium-alloy-lcd-backing-i-broke-mine.html

~Rob - has fun trying to break his Toughbook and failing overall...~

 

It was worthless because it was BROKEN..
"READING IS FUNDAMENTAL" **SEE POST #14**

Actually, I have whipped my toughbook at a wall..
The first thing I did to it when I took it out of the box was turn it on, make sure the touchscreen worked, then closed the lid, and tossed it down a flight of wooden stairs onto a concrete slab at the bottom, making sure it bounced all the way down.

Then I opened it up, made sure it still worked, then proceeded to take it to the sink, sprayed some dish soap on the screen and the body, grabbed a scrub brush, and scrubbed it down.

After all frothy, I sprayed it off with the sprayer and ran it under the faucet to make sure it was clean, it was an Australian telcom model and was quite dirty.

Mind you, this was all while it was on.

They live up to the hype..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_WubyqU0yU

Take YOUR laptop and do that.

 

Kids kids.. three things you shouldn't talk about... religion, politics, toughbook toughness.

 

Don't forget length and girth...

 

Dropping it is one thing, whipping it against a wall enough to obliterate a PC is another.

Sheesh you guys are defensive about anything even remotely negative against the Panasonic. You own a piece of equipment that suits your needs, not everyones.

Just because it's good at being rugged doesn't make it a nice laptop. A Hummer with a 120hp 4 cylinder engine doesn't make it the best. I don't tend to drop my stuff. I had a Sony laptop for seven years and never an issue, a Vostro 1500 for almost four now, and still going strong.

Besides the title of this thread should be "Whipped" not "Wipped", that's something you do in the bathroom after going number 2 (and still spelled wrong).

 

Define, nice laptop...
Granted, I can't play games on my Toughbook, but I could if I had the CF-31, now where to sell that kidney....

We have animals, and a small child, so basically anything but my toughbook is put away in a safe place.

My Lenovo is in a bag or in a docking station, and my quad-core SFF is about 30lbs to heavy to carry around...

 

Haha, now that's funny! LOL! I am clearly illiterate. Haha

It's funny because I thought I typed "whipped" not wipped... lol because the little spell checker in Firefox told me to change it... somehow I still forgot... DOPE!

 

I have animals and a 1 and 2 year old. But they know not to touch my other baby.

I like the idea behind a toughbook, but like you said, the CF-31 costs a fortune compared with any other notebook with similar specs. If every laptop was as rugged nobody could afford one.

I'm looking to get the Envy 14 and it has similar specs to the CF-31 but only costs $1000. I could buy four Envy 14's for one CF-31, not to mention it's 40% lighter and smaller.

To each their own. But to make it sound like because its tough it's better than anything else is nonsense...

That all said, I have always wanted to whip a laptop against a wall, sometimes my own while I'm using it. Too bad you didn't video it, would have been fun to watch.

 

Just like everything else, its all in how you use it...
Outside, in the field were my equipment is GOING to get knocked around, dusty, dirty and yes, even wet, I need something that will take it, and still perform.

Granted my lenovo can take a few light bumps, but for the above conditions, my lenovo is USELESS. Which would make my toughbook BETTER just by default.
So in a sense, for those conditions, a toughbook would be better than anything else, better than your Sager, or your Envy...

That's what we are getting at.

 

LOL. Panasonic doesn't just make rugged Toughbooks. On the other end of the spectrum are the W and T subnotebooks.

I use my CF-30 in a vehicle everyday, I appreciate the ruggedness and the ability to have a vehicle dock. Does everyone need that? Nope. I have a Macbook Pro at home. But put a MBP on your passenger seat, go on a road to speed, slam on the brakes and let me know if you cringe when you hear the "crunch" of the laptop hitting the glovebox and fall to the floor (been there, done that) doesn't matter you have an "invisibleshield" on - just protects from scratches, not drops! With a CF-series, you just pick it back up and go if you don't have a dock.

Not everyone subscribes to the North American "rah rah bigger is better" ideal (eg. Europe). We had our fire department complain about how they can't fit their rigs into the smaller laneways popping up around the city. Well, the Asian and European FDs seem fare well with much smaller apparatus...? But who am I to say that.

 

I had a client that would go through hard-drives faster than underwear, kept getting bad sectors.
When I finally asked are you doing to these?
His response was that he uses the laptop on the passenger seat to listen to mp3s or use as a gps, and the normal bumps and shocks must have been killing the HDs, that and the occasional slide off the seat onto the floor..

Thats one of the things I don't have to worry about with a TB, well, even less so now that I stuffed an SSD into CF-29.

 

I may have 1 more machine I can whip against the wall... I'll be sure to video it and post an update here...

We'll see though...

 

Make sure you don't hurt anyone's feelings....

 

Run an M-885 HMMWV (aka: HUMVEE & "Hummer") over the HP Envy14 and see how well it stands up.

Back in the early days of the Toughbook I was taking in-service training with the old 49th Armored Division at a local National Guard Armory. A representative from Panasonic was there with a (Model unknown) Toughbook, demonstrating its ruggedness.

He took the running Toughbook, closed it up and slung it across the armory floor, bouncing it off the wall. He then picked it up and sent it sliding back across the floor, where a Guardsman proceeded to drive a HUMVEE over the unit with both driverside tires.

The Rep then picked up the now-well-"abused" Toughbook, opened it up and showed that it was still running, and running just fine.

Now that's "Army Strong"!!! :yes:

And that's the reason I have now switched from the Toshiba Tecra to my three CF-29s.

 

I know they're tough, people don't have to justify it, but it isn't for everyone is all I'm saying. I don't intend on throwing my laptop around or work in a hostile environment. I don't have a need to run a Humvee over it.

I need CPU power, GPU power, portability (5lbs or less - maybe a little more), and $1200 or less. Toughbook can't run Flight Simulator X, it can't run Maya, it can't run 3D CAD. Well unless you get a $5000 toughbook. I can buy four "regular" notebooks for the price of a Panasonic notebook to do the same things. Unless I'm really careless I shouldn't have to replace it more than once. As a matter of fact, in the last 12+ years I've owned a notebook, I haven't had to have any replaced because it was dropped or broken in some other fashion. The day I break my notebook more than four times before I would "upgrade" to a new one anyways is the day I'll buy a Toughbook

 

It seems that nearly everyone needs to adjust their meds.
CAP

 

True as - CF-30 is not very popular in Europe at all. Police departments generally go for CF-19's as it can be mounted easily in small vehicles. Having manual gear vehicles in Europe mean that there isn't really space for a CF-30 in the vehicle!

 

True, hard to fit a notebook AND a person in a FIAT!!!

 

Bigger is better here in the US and if you don't like it then GTFO!

 

SERIOUSLY! C'mon guys.... We're supposed to be grown-ups.

Let's just say we're different... Just like EVERYONE ELSE!

To each, his own...

 

Eh, you are no longer in the HP forums, you felt some strange need to come to the PANASONIC forum and tell us all about the "Envy 14" (gay name by the way...) and I haven’t noticed anyone pressing you for details and yet you keep going on and on, however you believe that "we" are defensive?

How can a thread about destroying an old Toshiba that was ready for the scrap pile be construed as a claim that Toughbooks suit everyone’s needs?

It kind of does when that is what you are looking for and is your primary criterion. Not everyone lives and works down the street from the local Fry's and can just go pick up another case of Sagers to get them through the month!

Who said this, where? You are projecting, again it is you that is here doing all the justification for your choices. I am sure that you are a nice fellow, but I honestly don't care what kind of laptop that you use, or why. If you saw the type of usage that I have given laptops you would understand why. But no matter what brand of computer you buy, I don't "hate" you for it! :laugh:

Please don’t make me break out the red pen on you...

JB007Rules you have my compete respect for taking an old Toshiba that was ready to be junked and starting WWIII! Rep to you!

 

That's why there is a Hewlett Packard/Compaq/Voodoo PC Forum.

 

I felt no strange reason, there's a nice feature here at NBR called "new posts" that lets you see everything that's been posted. Maybe take a look some time. When a title says someone whipped (or wipped) a noteook against a wall, it grabbed my attention.

You just proved my point. It's what you need it for, just like I said. Toughbook users were gloating their machines can survive the nuclear holocaust, yours can't so its junk. My point is it's great it's rugged but don't slam other makes because it doesn't suit your needs.

Who said I'm a nice fellow? Let me borrow your toughbook to knock him/her over the head with it.

I just read into it, a childish mentality, "mine can do this, can yours?" nya nya nya nya boo boo.

I even said I respect the Toughbook for its ruggedness. I'd like to see a Toughbook LAN party. Everyone throwing theirs down the stairs, against the wall, driving over it with their cars. Quite fun...

Now let's take this out over a game of DiRT 2... oh wait your machine can't handle it...

... runs away ...

 

really guy they gave u the link back to the weak and crappy, so just take and im pretty sure the the 30 and 31 spank yours pal

-john-

 

This is what I'm talking about.... I think... can someone translate what he just said in English please?

 

GTFABTHPF! , and CF-30 & CF-31 Toughbooks RULE!!!

Do you need further translation?

 

I believe that violates the forum rules what you just said, but I'll leave that to a moderator.

A $5000 notebook better rule. It better make your breakfast too. You've proven my point again though, thanks.