I have the CF-19. $3,900 shipped. Steep, very steep! I tell ya though, for what this thing has been through the last 2 months, I would have spent that replacing the std. laptop. My favorite episode was the time it fell down 20 or so steel steps on a jobsite. I thought for sure it was toast. Half way down, picking up momentum, smacked the concrete floor after skipping the last 3 steps. 2 workers onsite happened to witness the drama and you could see the sadness as they stood there, "hope there was nothing important on there" one said. My stomach dropped until I powered it on. My main selling point to my company was it would outlast my other laptops, which by the way cost as much as this one with added repairs throughout the last year, plus not having it while its out at the repair facility. I purchased the additional 3 year protection for $300. 100 a year and in any event of damage, it gets fixed at no cost to me. No matter what!! I had to use this service already once. I dropped it while it was powered on and the hard drive didn't like that. Blue Screen. I called Panasonic on a Sunday, very nice folks by the way. On Tues I had a box arrive with a prepaid FedEx label. On Friday, I recieved it back. I was only down a week. Don't drop these while their powered on. The HD is definitly the weakest link on these. Somebody design a solid state 80GB HD!!!
Yes I know that dreaded line - "I hope nothing important was on there"
And since I work in the tech support area for a hospital, I find myself saying that a lot. Then again our users are supposed to keep their personal data on their private folders on our server, which is backed up daily, so I often say it with a smirk ;-)
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I have the CF-19. $3,900 shipped. Steep, very steep! I tell ya though, for what this thing has been through the last 2 months, I would have spent that replacing the std. laptop. My favorite episode was the time it fell down 20 or so steel steps on a jobsite. I thought for sure it was toast. Half way down, picking up momentum, smacked the concrete floor after skipping the last 3 steps. 2 workers onsite happened to witness the drama and you could see the sadness as they stood there, "hope there was nothing important on there" one said. My stomach dropped until I powered it on. My main selling point to my company was it would outlast my other laptops, which by the way cost as much as this one with added repairs throughout the last year, plus not having it while its out at the repair facility. I purchased the additional 3 year protection for $300. 100 a year and in any event of damage, it gets fixed at no cost to me. No matter what!! I had to use this service already once. I dropped it while it was powered on and the hard drive didn't like that. Blue Screen. I called Panasonic on a Sunday, very nice folks by the way. On Tues I had a box arrive with a prepaid FedEx label. On Friday, I recieved it back. I was only down a week. Don't drop these while their powered on. The HD is definitly the weakest link on these. Somebody design a solid state 80GB HD!!!
Yes I know that dreaded line - "I hope nothing important was on there"
And since I work in the tech support area for a hospital, I find myself saying that a lot. Then again our users are supposed to keep their personal data on their private folders on our server, which is backed up daily, so I often say it with a smirk ;-)