how to check a toughbook worth to deal ?

gays, I found another dealer for CF-19 Mk6 and offer to face to face transaction. So like the title how or which part should i check to confirm that device should be deal?

Last time, I know that toughbook's bios password can not be wipe and without the password can not install other part like GPS, wwlan, fingerprint reader by ourselves. So any hits for the deal check?

 

On face to face transaction have the seller start the computer and hit [F2} If bios opens you can check specifications....ram, hdd and hours. On CF-30 and 31 look for DVD. If this is on battery you checked that too.
The point is "if the bios opens there is no password". Bios passwords are NOT your friend.

 

Well good question since there is no "Kelly Book'' for Toughbooks like cars. You just have to look around at the going rate for that model.

 

the deal have a taobao(alibaba) web shop, links: https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a1z10.5-c.w4002-12083616746.36.LtdfPz&id=523079303548

CF-19 Mk6, i5-3320M, 4G ram, 500G HD, wifi.

it without GPS, wwlan, bluetooth, fingerprint reader, and no bios password locked.

the dealer offer the price about USD $890. is it a decent price for that device?

 

same page through gogle translator.

https://translate.google.com/transl...10.5-c.w4002-12083616746.36.LtdfPz&edit-text=

 

How many hours on the mk6?
Does it have a digitizer or is it a touchscreen?

Tell the seller you need to see a photo of this screen from the BIOS.

 

the seller say that is doal touch! yeah, i will ask the screen-shot from the bios

 

the seller send me the screem-shot!

 

It is a mk6
4000 hours is not bad.
Does it come with Windows 7? If it does not, you will have to get that somewhere else.
From what I have seen on Ebay, $890USD is a fair price. Not the best and not the worst.


From the factory, that model had this

Model Number: CF-191HYAX1M
Status: DISCONTINUED
MSRP: $3,629
Description: Win7, Intel Core i5-3320M 2.60GHz, vPro, 10.1" XGA Touch, 500GB(7200rpm), 4GB, Intel WiFi a/b/g/n, TPM, Bluetooth, 56k Modem (RJ11), No Drive, Toughbook Preferred

 

is it that BIOS and intel firmware a little low?
i notice the picture shawn post bios:v7.00L14 and intel firmware:8.0.10.1464.

 

My picture was of a mk7. I changed it to a mk6. The picture was to just to show you what to ask for.

Latest BIOS for mk6 is this V6.00L12
http://pc-dl.panasonic.co.jp/dl/download/file/068630/s/207dd08ea52c5a0b/bios_19_6_r140193.exe

 

thanks！

 

I don't think it's a dual touch. Unless I missed it.

 

how it tell it,s not dual touch?

 

It is touch only NOT dual touch per my post of the specifications.

 

Also shows no drive.

 

good to know that. I think that's seller or the oringinal owner add on it. but the seller say that has the original digitizer pen, so it comes up a problem: if the original model refer to Shawn post, it should not have the digitizer pen's "hold"(that pen insert place,sorry that i don't know how it call) ?

 

Kerry
No drive means optical drive.

It has a stylus for the touchscreen. Many people do not know the difference between a touchscreen and a digitizer. They think that they are the same thing. So they call the stylus a digitizer pen.

 

I am not home to look at my 19MK5 but are the hole sizes for the pen different ??

 

Hole size for pen is the same on a mk4 for touch and dual touch. Pretty sure mk3 holes are the same also.
They changed the hole sizes when they changed to the newer pen. Mk3 and later??

That makes it very difficult to find a bargain dual touch.

 

So I guess he needs to see a picture of the pen then.

 

Now on my CF-19MK5 the Configure

Model Number : CF-19ADUAX1M
Status : DISCONTINUED
MSRP : $3,829
Description: Win7, Intel Core i5-2520M 2.50GHz, vPro, 10.1" XGA Dual Touch, 320GB(7200rpm), 4GB, Intel WiFi a/b/g/n, TPM, Bluetooth, Dual Pass (Upper:WWAN/Lower:WLAN), No Drive, Toughbook Preferred

The problem with a lot of Toughbook sellers is they don't know what they have in front of them. I bought a 19MK2 3-4 years ago for $45.00 shipped because the touchscreen was not working. When I got it and looked at it....the reason the touchscreen did not work was because it was a digitizer screen and he was using a stylus pen which was in the hole.
I think this seller does not know the difference between a touchscreen or a digitizer screen.

 

thanks for tip the digitizer and stylus are different, i google that like this: http://www.howtogeek.com/177376/not...ual-capacitive-wacom-and-bluetooth-explained/

means "touch" : Capacitive Stylus like the iphone

but digitizer pen should be with eletric/battery?(like the ipad pro's apple pencil or MS surface book's pen )

and the just touchscreen for CF-19 mk6 have how many " Point Multi Touch"?

 

better information is obtained by googling "passive vs active stylus" .

the term "stylus" can be thought to mean "pointy/skinny long object" ...
a toothpick , a piece of twig , a pencil , a nail , etc , can be a stylus if used as such .
it is like the term "cup" ... a small device for containing/holding a liquid or dry substance .
there are many objects that fit that definition .

 

No electric or battery at all. Check this one out. They come in white and black and as you can see they are not cheap. www.ebay.com/itm/Panasonic-Toughbook-CF-19-Laptop-DIGITIZER-Stylus-Pen-BRAND-NEW-/221976552340?hash=item33aed56394:g:GFAAAOxyoA1RUx48

 

Button on the side of pointy stick is a digitizer pen.
No button on side of pointy stick is a touchscreen stylus.

Still doesn't mean they did not stick the wrong pen / stylus in the slot.

The model in question was factory touchscreen and NO digitizer.
That makes it about a 95% chance it is still touchscreen only.
Dual touch models seem to cost at least 25% more than touch only models.

 

unberstood! by the way, it is possible to change touchscreen to digitizer by my self? just curious, for now, digitizer is not necessary!

 

Yes but it's not cheap. It would be much cheaper to buy one that way. Myself I like the dual touch much better.

 

yep ... it is expensive .
the last digitizer i had to replace (the backplane array and electronics) cost around $400 .
it was an insurance job on a "specialized" company laptop ...
if it had been a "normal" customer , i am certain that it would have not been repaired .

i cannot see a big advantage of a digitizer over a resistive or holographic (light source around the edges) screen .

 

2 ways to add digitizer to touch only.
1) Get digitizer panel and dual touch harness. Get digitizer PCB. Then completely disassemble lcd half of CF19 to add parts. The wiring around hinge is very tricky.
2) Buy another CF19 with dual touch. Change entire top half.