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Mystery Intel Tablet is Panasonic Toughbook for Medical Types
6:24PM Kit Eaton | That mystery tablet PC that appeared at the end of Intel’s presentation at IDF last night is no classmate, or super-powered Speak&Spell either: It’s a Panasonic Toughbook-alike tablet. More specifically it’s a “Mobile Clinical Assistant” device, aimed at doctors and nurses who are under an increasing burden of digital data and imagery nowadays, though there’s not much more info available than that fact yet. Shucks… and there we were hoping for something a little more Classmate-y. [Ubergizmo] More »
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What Doesn’t Break a Toughbook Makes It Stronger: How They Test the Hell Out of Them
6:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | Deep in the northwest corner of Kobe, Japan, there’s a factory hidden away among green rice paddies, and sleepy farming villages of tiled roofs. If you were to travel here, to Takatsukadai–the middle of nowhere–you’d find Panasonic’s Toughbook plant quietly making notebooks with the world’s lowest failure rate. Well, not so quietly, actually. They employ a regimen of over 500 different tests, smashing, dropping and soaking Toughbooks, with over a thousand sacrifices each year. This is where I learned how the old computer plant manages to pull it off, miraculously, almost all under one roof. More »
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Panasonic’s Atom-Based Toughbook UMPC Is Mini Hercules
6:52AM Benny Goldman | The Toughbook UMPC spotted around CeBIT has been made official by Panasonic. The ultra mobile sports an Atom CPU and runs Vista on its 5.6-inch LCD screen. It is impact resistant like other Toughbooks, and we hope it’s just as spill-proof as their notebooks. One thing we can’t wrap our heads around the number pad. It’s smack-dab in the middle of the letters. Anyone care to help us out with that? [Impress] More »
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