By Gabe Carey
If you’re looking at this and wondering why you would buy a 2-in-1 laptop from Panasonic, much less one that’s 1.8-inches (4.6cm) thick and weighs 6.1 pounds (2.8kg), the Toughbook 33 isn’t for you. This is, through and through, an enterprise machine with the mobile workforce in mind.
That means the target market for this Toughbook (and every Toughbook before it) consists of professionals such as fire-fighters, police officers and EMTs who take their laptops on the go into unpredictable environments.
The nature of these jobs requires a laptop that’s thick and rugged, and in today’s world of versatile hybrid notebooks, consumer-facing devices simply don’t have this advantage. Boasting a magnesium alloy chassis and a fully rugged design, the Toughbook 33 is for those whose jobs require a laptop meeting military-grade MIL-STD-810G standards.
This is a laptop that, according to Panasonic’s claims, can withstand drops, shocks, vibration, rain, dust, high temperatures, low temperatures, humidity and, of course, an ‘explosive atmosphere’. That alone would explain its steep $3,649 (about £2,800, AU$4,900) starting cost, but Panasonic takes this Toughbook iteration even further.
With the Toughbook 33, Panasonic gives users the choice between 7th-generation Kaby Lake i5-7300U and …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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