Call it the James Bond of laptops. We dropped the Panasonic CF-30 "Toughbook," kicked it, stood on it and tried to back over it with a Volkswagen JettaTDi. (That left a mark--on the pavement.) We ...

Ordinary notebooks may face a bit of turbulence in the overhead bin, but rugged laptops are carried into harm's way by first responders and combat troops. They're designed to be dropped onto rocks and ...

Panasonic may have “announced” the ToughBook CF-U1 back in March, but it’s only now getting around talking speeds, feeds and wallet drain. Even though it uses Intel’s “low cost” 1.33GHz Atom Z520 ...

The Panasonic Toughbook CF-S10 is a semi-rugged laptop with the business executive in mind. Its magnesium alloy casing and mounted hard drive will allow this PC to go off road and into the field ...

Panasonic’s Toughbooks have legendary strength but I doubt any of us ever considered them tough enough to survive a white tiger or Asian elephant. I didn’t. The last “durable notebook” I tested failed ...

Companies that design laptops from the ground up can sustain a competitive advantage over those that buy their designs from other (mostly Taiwanese) manufacturers. Panasonic, for example, is what you ...

When Panasonic launched its then-new Toughbook line of ruggedized portable computers in 1996, the first model was the CF-25, which was essentially a laptop computer built into a thick, clunky ...

Panasonic today announced a series of upgrades to its Toughbook 31 fully-rugged laptop. The updated device features new Intel Core i5 and i3 processors, increased RAM and hard drive capacity as well ...

Panasonic has announced an updated version of the company’s smaller 10.1-inch form factor Toughbook, the CF-20 Mark 2. Like the original CF-20, the Mark 2 features a 10.1-inch screen in a rugged, 2-in ...

NEWARK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Panasonic is pleased to introduce a worker’s best friend: the Panasonic TOUGHBOOK® 55 mobile computer. Building on legendary reliability, versatility, performance and ...