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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: highroller54 on June 20, 2013, 01:50:45 PM

Title: Panasonic tough book?
Post by: highroller54 on June 20, 2013, 01:50:45 PM

Need a new laptop for my tool box, gets wet/dirty/abused. These any good?

Title: Re: Panasonic tough book?
Post by: Joseph Davis on June 20, 2013, 01:53:34 PM

Good and expensive.

Title: Re: Panasonic tough book?
Post by: highroller54 on June 20, 2013, 02:52:23 PM

I can get a mint barley used one for cheap.

Title: Re: Panasonic tough book?
Post by: Joseph Davis on June 20, 2013, 02:55:47 PM

Fully hardened?

Title: Re: Panasonic tough book?
Post by: highroller54 on June 20, 2013, 03:07:19 PM

What's this now? Screen turns around I know.

Title: Re: Panasonic tough book?
Post by: mandrel-bends on June 24, 2013, 10:43:12 AM

Supposed to be very good but $. We use a couple Lenovo T61 older laptops in harsh environments around here and they seem to hold up well too. Think we paid around $500 for each one. 

Title: Re: Panasonic tough book?
Post by: Joseph Davis on June 24, 2013, 10:55:31 AM

Thinkpads, whether IBM or Lenovo, are generally excellent.  You have to be careful of T61 as some have issues.  I'm typing on a 4.5 year old T61 that needs a new GPU fan every second year ($45 plus time) but has been otherwise flawless, but some of the T61 family has serious motherboard or GPU issues.  And, by serious, I mean they are still way more reliable than HP or Dell.  Thinkpads aren't supposed to break.

Honestly, if that's a fully armored Toughbook I'd pick it up to flip it, buy a T400 or T500 (models after the T61) in the sub-$300 range off eBay with some residual factory warranty, and spend the remaining hundreds on hookers and blow.