Panasonic Solutions Company had recently announced the new addition to its Toughbook family. Tagged as the Panasonic Toughbook 19, it is a rugged convertible tablet PC. The newly introduced upgraded toughbook showcased a 10.4 inch LED backlit display with an additional offering of optional touch screen display or an optional dual touch display. The same device also carries the Panasonic’s Curiculum Technology allowing adjustments of the screen’s brightness depending on the surrounding environment with 2 nits for very dark and 1000 nits in direct sunlight. it also has one of Intel’s fast CPU’s with i5-540UM joined with Turbo boost mode that can run up to 2GHz. It also has clocked running at 1.2 GHz with 4 threads and 3MB of L3 cache.
The new toughbook includes 2GB of DDR3 RAM that can expand up to 8GB and an option of either 160GB SATA hard drive or 128GB Solid State Drive. The device is also run by Genuine Windows 7 Profession and includes options of GoBi 2000 3G mobile broadband chip that connects to CMDA and GSM networks which helped maintain PC in the right track and WiMax towers.
The notebook also proved its name to be ultra rugged yet quick and powerful with a list of certifications and ratings. It has an IP65 rating making it complete dust, rainstorm and water jets resistant ensuring productivity even in challenging situations. Also beyond is its MIL-STD-8106 certification, making it withstand a six foot drop. Completing this powerful pack is its shock mounted flex-connected hard drive with quick release, magnesium alloy case and ULI1604 Class1 Division 2 certification proving its capability of operating in hazardous and mission critical environments.
Other features for this gadget is its Wi-Fi b/g/n, standard Bluetooth, Port replicator External video (VGA) ,Headphones/speaker, Microphone/line-in ,Serial ,USB 2.0 x 2 ,SD card (SDHC) ,PC card ,ExpressCard ,10/100/1000 Ethernet ,56K Data/Fax Modem, Dual antenna pass-troughs and FireWire. It can last for 9 hours of battery life and has a full 3 year limited warranty for its parts and labor.
This full pack device is really awesome and powerful but still has flaws in its making. Its swivel hinge is suspected to be not as strong as the rest of the parts of the device. Also weighing at 2.31kngs or 5.1lbs, the device seems to be heavy for a 10 inch Toughbook. Its cool features and specs is also matched with its price, to be sold at $3399, really a fortune for just a notebook.
You might also like
Tags: notebook, Panasonic Toughbook 19 convertible, Panasonic Toughbook 19 features, Panasonic Toughbook 19 price, Panasonic Toughbook 19 review, Panasonic Toughbook 19 specs, Panasonic Toughbook 19 tablet
