Panasonic Toughbook CF-52

Intel Core-2-Duo T7100, GM-965-Grafik and 1 GByte main memory for 2035 euro do not sound in the first moment after a particularly good offer. Only quite not, since Panasonic indicates the price before taxes as a Business manufacturer.

If one looks however on the details of the Toughbook CF-52, the high price is fast avowed. The Notebook series addresses itself to professional users, who move mobilely in an extreme surrounding field, e.g. on a dusty building ground. Over in such employments a long life span to guarantee requires it high developping costs.

Thus the Notebook gets over a fall from 76 centimeters for example owing to the flexibly embodied and from foam material umschlossenen 80-GByte-Festplatte. In addition it bears variations in temperature of -20° C to +60° C as well as an air humidity of up to 90 per cent.

Those did not prevail fortunately, when our editorship could make itself a first picture of a prototype on the presentation of the CF-52. As only Toughbook with Widescreen the CF-52 sees usual Consumergeräten quite similar. Naturally the firmly installed, but removable carrying handle betrays at first sight that it concerns here an unusual Notebook.

The processing left already a good impression, even if at some places yet everything did not sit completely firmly. As Panasonic however is repaired the problem insured us with appearance of the Models at the beginning of of Septembers.

Disappointed we had to state something that one does without an DVI exit both at the Notebook and to the Dockingstation. According to information of Mr. Dr. Fischer, CTO Panasonic computer Products Europe is not possible an installation because of the support of BD-DVD (BluRay). Here because of the copy protection demanded by Hollywood the hands are bound for the manufacturers.

To the further characteristics belong an magnesium-alloyed housing, water protection at keyboard and Touchpad as well as a display protected by cushions. A UMTS module is blocked not according to standard, but owing to Simcard pit the CF-52 is prepared for it. With the Trusted Platform of modules is to be protected the user against undesired accesses.

The Akkulaufzeit indicates Panasonic as 4,5 hours. As soon as we receive the borrowing position, we will submit the CF-52 further test. Particularly on and landed on water may one case be strained.