Here are the tests of HP Pavilion div2-1030 and Panasonic Toughbook CF-19. The HP Pavilion 1030us div2-tested features AMD M690 chipset, an Athlon MV-40 Neo (1.6 GHz), 4GB DDR2, HDD 320GB SATA 5400 rpm, a Radeon Mobility HD3410 512 1.28 MB dedicated VRAM HyperMemory GB, a screen 12.1”WXGA BrightView LED with a resolution of 1280 × 800, webcam with microphone, a card reader 5 in 1 connectors and Wi-Fi a / b / g / n, HDMI , VGA, Headphone, Microphone, Ethernet and USB 2.0 (x3). Comes with a 6 cell battery, it weighs 1.7 Kg and runs Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit.

Its design is more elegant than most Netbooks, but its glossy finish shows fingerprints. It is a bit heavy for a free model of optical drive but is rather thin. It is unfortunate that the keyboard does not take the whole width of the chassis for the seizure would have been less tense. The testers found that the Samsung NC20 keyboards and Lenovo ThinkPad X200 is more comfortable. The large touchpad does not glide that is best but its buttons are relatively easy to press. The screen displays bright colors and has good viewing angles and although his slab is bright reflections do not interfere in office. However the screen is placed a little too high.

The hard disk performance are similar to those of the average Netbooks, but lower than the average ultraportable. In practical applications to load rather quickly, and it faces no desire to work on multiple programs simultaneously. His score of 1448 points in 3DMark06 is much higher than Netbooks (169 pts) and ultraportables (896 pts) and it can run FEAR at 1024 × 600 with an average of 33 fps. He has no problem to play videos 720p and coping rather well with 1080p video on an external display, even if it is not perfect. It heats up and did a little voice in a quiet room but it is not too disturbing. Its range of 2:31 ET, but the weak Wi-Fi module is powerful.
The Panasonic Toughbook CF-19 being tested is equipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo SU9300 (1.2 GHz), 4GB DDR2, a SATA HDD 160GB 5400 rpm, a chipset Intel X4500MHD 128 MB, screen 10.4”XGA LED 1024 × 768, webcam 2.0 megapixels, a fingerprint reader TPM 1.2, a card reader and Wi-port Fi a / b / G / N, Bluetooth 2.0 EDR, Firewire, PCCard, ExpressCard, Headset, Microphone, Ethernet and USB 2.0 (x2). It weighs 2.3 kg and runs Windows Vista Business with a 6 cell battery.



Its design is solid and quality, and it is rather light for a rugged model. The keyboard input causes a narrow somewhat tense and some buttons are not placed in a standard way. The touchpad is small like its buttons and a slide is not great. The bright display provides a nice display with good viewing angles and its speakers are correct. Tablet PC mode, the screen is responsive and the handwriting recognition works well. Besides its ability to withstand hostile environments, it has several security features.
It delivers good performance for its category. Its autonomy from 7.45 is very good and Wi-Fi is more efficient.

Frequent travelers the possibility of a malfunctioning laptop, it is important that it can withstand the bumps and grinds to travel daily. Panasonic has introduced a solution to your Toughbook laptop series, which aims to drive a natural way of life that seems to be more common than ever for business travelers. Panasonic Toughbook W4  is the latest model in the Toughbook series, which contains a 12.1-inch WXGA LCD screen, battery efficient Pentium M Ultra Low Voltage processor running 1.2 GHz and 512 MB of onboard memory (expandable up to 1GB), enough to handle most office applications.

Case Design
As the name implies Toughbook W4 is the fact suffered setbacks, and grinding, which is the travel day. W4 housing consists of magnesium alloy, which is more durable and stronger than ABS plastic over most standard laptops. Characterized by a semi-rigid, lightweight format that combines durability. This is not to be confused with a full Toughbook laptops are designed to withstand extreme amounts of heavy abuse, but they are larger.

Keyboard
Keyboard 83-key White contains all the essential keys, including Windows and Ctrl keys at the bottom left of the keyboard compared to ThinkPad X41, which is key for Windows. PgDn, PgUp arrow keys are also present, but require users to press the Fn (function), which is similar to most laptops with embedded numeric keypad. Panasonic managed to squeeze home / self, using the Fn key to the end. Caps Lock, Shift, Alt, Tab, Backspace and Enter keys are small compared to the VAIO TX, which makes it more likely that you will stay. Despite this difference, the keyboard Toughbook W4, it seems quite similar to VAIO TX, in particular, is most similar-sized keys. Unlike the Fujitsu P7010 which most keys are very small measuring approximately 5 inches, it is difficult to capture at the same time, the majority of the keys Toughbook W4 is close to the size (large .75-inch) found in full-size keyboard keys (keys, Logitech diNovo measures .80-inches wide). Only the top row of keys (ESC, function keys) is slightly smaller than the others.

Display
Panasonic not use a glossy screen instead of a specific type of matte anti-glare 12.1-inch XGA LCD. While not as impressive as Sony’s XBRITE technology, W4 screen is still quite bright and colorful. In addition, Panasonic uses a standard wide-screen aspect ration compared to the panel, such as the Vaio TX series and the Lifebook P7000.

Battery – Long Lasting
Apparently, this ultra-portable includes several components, which consume little power, which is equal to the battery is very effective. Lithium-ion standard capacity is estimated to be at a reasonable price 58 Wh (7800 mAh), which makes the standard battery the Fujitsu P7010 is estimated at 49.6 Wh (4800 mAh), appears to be negligible. Is equal to the capacity of the battery include the Sony VAIO TX. For further extend the life of the battery, the Panasonic brand in a power saving mode (ECO) utility.

If you are searching for ruggidized notebooks then you can find the at panasonic.com or at ruggednotebooks.com. This class of ruggidized notebooks are a good choice if you need a resistant laptop to carry on with you in any conditions. If you are a prevented person and you split coffee on your computer all  the time, then a rugged computer would be the best choice for you.

The military is also using this kind of laptops because there are very resistant and have protection for many situations that could occur. So instead of losing important data from your computer because of the bag things that could happen with it, is better for you to choose a rugged computer.

Most of the rugged laptops don’t look that good in terms of design and producers nowadays are trying to provide semi rugged laptops to their clients. At the begin of the year 2007, Dell manufacturer announced  the first semi rugged laptop made by them which was called the Latitude ATG D 620. In 2008 they made a rugged notebook that was called the Latitude XFR D630.

A rugged laptop is designed to resist to various hazards that could happen such as liquid spills, dust, vibrations, drops & shocks, or extreme temperature even if there are low temperatures or high ones. Besides the normal specifications that all kind of laptops have like disk and memory size, processor, and others, the rugged computers have specifications that measure the degree to which these laptops are protected against any hazards.

There are various parameters and descriptions of those parameters that measure the resistance of a rugged laptop to various unhappy happenings that could happen. There is a standard of parameters that was created by the US government and which was called MIL STD 810 F. Some of the factors that are take into consideration while measuring the parameters on resistance in case of various hazards are water resistance, shock resistance, vibration resistance, dust resistance, extreme temperature exposure.

The most known series of rugged laptops are the Toughbook made by Panasonic which are designed to be dust resistant, vibration resistant and spill or shock resistant. Because of the special keyboard, when spilling water or any other liquid on the laptop, it won’t damage the electronics of the laptop. the casing is also made of full or partial, magnesium alloy, and the hard drive is often a shock resistant one.

One of the Toughbook products made by Panasonic there is the Thoughbook F8 that is the lightest laptop in the world with a display that has the diagonal of 14.1 inches and is with optical drive. This rugged laptop weights 3.7 pounds and it has a LCD widescreen, draft n Wi-Fi, integrated handle, optional Gobi mobile broadband access and Bluetooth. It comes with Intel Centrino with vPro technology, a shock mounted hard drive of 250 GB and a spill resistant keyboard. There are many models of laptops in the Toughbook series from Panasonic, and most of them are made for certain fields like medical, army, or other.

The laptops are really popular today, and their technologies had evolved very much in the last years. Today there are not just the simple laptops, but there are also other types of notebooks…there are the netbooks (much smaller and lighter laptops), the Tablet laptops (laptops with touchscreen features and with a high mobility of the screen) and also rugged laptops (much heavier and solid laptops, that are made to withstand vibrations, drops, spills, high temperatures and other rough conditions. One of the best producers of rugged notebooks is Panasonic, thanks to its Toughbook model. This laptop was first used for military, law enforcement and heavy industrial users, but in time it expanded to a wider audience.

Since a Toughbook, and usually a rugged laptop is heavier and thicker compared to a regular laptop, this means that its portability is smaller. But Panasonic came with a great solution for those who are looking for a thin and portable laptop, that is also rugged and that can resist on though conditions. And this is the Panasonic Toughbook CF T4GWCTZBM laptop. It is lightweight yet durable, compact yet powerful and fits easily into a briefcase or carrying bag. It comes with the legendary Toughbook reliability, and also with many other features that are making it a perfect laptop for the most busies mobile professionals. It is a versatile laptop, with a stylish design, but also with a higher resistance to tough conditions compared to regular laptops.

And now here are the complete technical details for this model. You should keep in mind that it is an older model, so its features are not very powerful compared to the ones found on 2010 models. But still…these features can be enough for a business men or a worker, that is interested just in simple tasks such as writing documents, mails, browsing the internet or working in some software that are related to their job. So here they are:

Product MPN

MPN   CF-T4 GWCTZBM

Key Features

Laptop Type    Ultraportable Laptop

Use      Corporate Business • Small Business • Business

Processor   Pentium M 1.2 GHz

Installed Memory   512 MB (DDR2 SDRAM)

Hard Drive   40 GB

Display 12.1 in. XGA TFT Active Matrix With Touchscreen

Operating System         Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Mobile Technology       Intel Centrino Mobile Technology

Weight             3.4 lb.

Processor

Processor Manufacturer            Intel

Processor Type   Pentium M

Processor Number       753

Processor Speed   1.2 GHz

Motherboard

Chipset             Intel 915GMS

Bus Speed        400 MHz

Memory

Installed RAM 512 MB

RAM Technology         DDR 2 SDRAM

Max Supported RAM  1 GB

RAM Speed     400 MHz

Installed Cache Memory           2048 KB

Hard Drive

Hard Drive Capacity     40 GB

Display

Display Tech    XGA TFT Active Matrix With Touchscreen

Screen Size   12.1 in.

Display Color Support 24 bit (16.7 million colors)

Display Max. Resolution           1024 x 768

Video

Graphic Processor   Intel 915 GMS

External Video Resolution         2048 x 1536

Audio

Audio Output Type       Headphones • Sound card • Speaker(s)

Audio Input Type         Line In (3.5 mm) • Microphone

Operating System

Operating System         Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Platform           PC

Technical Features

Expandability    1 x Type I/ II PC Card Slot, 1 x SD Card Slot, Docking Station/ Port Replicator

Expansion Ports            2 x USB 2.0, VGA out, RJ 11 (modem), RJ 45 (NIC)

Security Features          Slot For Cable Lock, Bi-level Password

Input Method   Keyboard • Stylus • Touchpad • Touch-Screen

Networking

Networking Type   Integrated 10/ 100 Network Card • Integrated Wireless LAN

Data Link Protocol       Ethernet • Fast Ethernet • IEEE 802.11 a • IEEE 802.11 b • IEEE 802.11 g

Modem

Modem Type   Fax / Modem

Battery

Battery Run Time          9.5 Hours

Battery Technology       Lithium ion

Dimensions

Width   10.6 in.

Depth   8.3 in.

Height 2.7 in.

Weight             3.4 lb.

Warranty

Warranty          3 Years

Miscellaneous

UPC    092281851587

Family Line       Panasonic Toughbook

Today, laptops are spread all over the market and because of this variety it is extremely hard to find a beast deal on a laptop. Despite the fact that it was quite a gargantuan job, I managed to find a laptop that caught my eye from the thousands of laptops out there. I am talking about a Panasonic laptop.

Panasonic introduces new series of business notebooks, the Toughbook CF-52 , the successor of the Toughbook CF-51 model. The new model is built around Intel’s new SantaRosa platform and offers improved processing speed for an optimal level of performance. The company announces that it will provide users a wide range of interfaces, an advanced data security, easy handling thanks to integrated handle, and a unique design offered by the magnesium alloy casing.

The Toughbook CF-52 is equipped with a generous 80GB hard drive with a latest-generation Intel Core 2 Duo processor at 1.8GHz and offers a battery life of up to 7.5 hours.

The Panasonic Toughbook CF-52 notebook is semi-reinforced, made to operate in the most demanding work environments. Tested and designed in accordance with strict specifications of the MIL-STD 810F standard, it provides protection against vibration and shock to the sensitive components, such as screen and hard drive. As an extra safety method, the keyboard and touchpad are waterproof.

The new CF-52 weighs only 3.3kg making it ideal for users who want mobility without compromising your data protection.  Another new model that emphasizes CF-52 is mobile communication: thanks SantaRosa platform, it has ultimate wireless support and the ability to integrate a WWAN module,  and a HSDPA/3G for high speed data transfers.

This being said, if we add the $1,800 price tag, I think that this system is definitely worth its money and it is, without a doubt one of the best deals you will ever find on a laptop.