2 Panasonic Toughbook CF-S10 Review

The Panasonic Toughbook CF-S10 ($ 2.449 list) is a semi-rugged laptop with mobile business in mind. It may not have rubber bumpers on each corner, as the Dell Latitude XFR fully rugged E6420 ($ 5,612 direct, 4 stars), to protect against the types of accidents that can arise in a work or in a military zone, but the executive must be able to move from the boardroom in the field. The Toughbook CF-S10 is well shielded, with a coup mounted hard drive, a spill-resistant keyboard, and settled a TPM security chip and Intel Anti-Theft technology.

Design

Toughbook CF-S10 features magnesium enclosure with a black cover to emphasize a small upper lip silver lining, and silver in the rest of the body. 1.5 inches, is a bit 'more often than traditional consumer laptop of 1.04 inches thick, the Samsung 300U1A-A01 ($ 699.99 list, 3.5 stars), mainly because the body must make room for the hard drive (more on that later) and manage up to 220 pounds pressure. His weight is still a three-pound mark just 2.96 pounds and has a lighter side compared to other 12-inch laptops, such as the Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Tablet 4.15 pounds (1,579 dollars directly, 4 stars) EliteBook 2560p and 4.3-poundHP ($ 1,299.99 direct, 4 stars).

Panasonic Toughbook CF-S10

ts 12.1-inch screen resolution 1280 by 800, a rate different from the norm of 1366 by 768 pixels found in most laptops. Basically, it is above or below the standard resolution, just a different way of organizing pixels. The screen features anti-reflective as seen in other Panasonic Toughbook CF-Y7, for what is readable in bright sunlight. The keyboard is slightly smaller than its size and its keys are traditional in style, instead of seeing EliteBook 2560p chiclet portable and MacBook Pro line tighter writing experiment was easy for me to get used to and comfortable to boot. The trackpad may be somewhat different than normal, with a circle shape instead of square.

Its shape also contributes to this interesting way to navigate up or down the page, you circle your finger clockwise or counterclockwise direction up or down instead of using a "two-finger multi-touch" feature with Most laptops.

Features

This 12.1-inch laptop is small, but still room for a DVD-RW in the right palm rest. Other features include USB 3.0, VGA and HDMI video outputs, two USB 2.0 ports, audio and microphone jacks, an Ethernet connector and a telephone jack. The Toughbook CF-S10 also has several wireless connectivity options like Bluetooth 2.1 for wireless high-speed Wi-Fi 802.11n, and Gobi 3G mobile that lets you stay connected anywhere. The operating system Windows 7 is 32 bits, rather than the 64 bits in most laptops. The 32-bit version should not affect performance in the business space, but players and professional media publishers want to stay away.

Safety features abound in this laptop, since if that lock slot allows you to lock your computer physically, protection against theft Computrace agent in the BIOS. There is also a TPM security chip and installed Intel Anti-Theft technology. The 320GB hard drive is mounted on shock absorbers to prevent vibration damage to the drive when on the road or pick it up. The disc also rotates at a slower speed at 5400 rpm (instead of faster 7200 rpm). The only thing that could have been better on the inside is an SSD, like the 256 GB SSD in the Dell Latitude E6420 ATG ($ 3,348 direct, 4 stars), because they are susceptible to cracks and damage as disks drives are rotating. Of course, the downside is that they come in smaller capacities and are much more expensive.

Panasonic Toughbook CF-S10

Performance

The Toughbook CF-S10 is equipped with a 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5-2520 processor and 4 GB of DDR3 RAM. Against other similar laptops configured as the 2560p the HP Toughbook CF-S10 behind in performance. In PCMark 7 She drew a respectable score of 2164 points, just 476 points behind HP 2560p. Even in Cinebench R11.5 could Toughbook (2.01) does not match the Editors' Choice Lenovo ThinkPad X220 ($ 1,299 direct, 4 stars) (2.82), which came ahead by a wide margin. Benchmarking hand, Web pages Toughbook CF-S10 load, start applications, and allows you to work with ease, it's just not as fast as the competition that takes away from his total score.

The great achievement test Toughbook CF-S10 topped MobileMark battery test was 2007. His 84Wh 6-cell battery lasted 9 hours 7 minutes. The laptop only one who came near the Lenovo ThinkPad X220 is 63WH battery (6 cells) with a time of 8 hours and 40 minutes.

The Panasonic Toughbook CF-S10 is a solid machine when it comes to office tasks from day to day management and will protect data in the coming years. However, if performance is your main concern about security, then you should consider the Lenovo ThinkPad X220, $ 1,150 less than the Toughbook CF-S10-and combine it with something like a secured unit Q ToughTech WiebeTech drive to store your data . If it refers to performance and safety are equal, the Dell Latitude E6420 ATG will give you a faster Core i7 robust business look, but will cost $ 899 more.