I work for a large city on the west coast and here are some examples of what the semi rugged and fully rugged line are used for.
Our police use the CF-30 in thier vehicles. A weapon accidently discharged in a vehicle and went through the laptop. IT STILL WORKS. The local panasonic rep has it now and uses it for demos.
The City Coroner has the CF-19. When it gets splashed with bodily fluids they rinse it off with a water hose and does it with alcohol. This happens daily.
I have a CF-72 in my office someone dropped from the seat of a dump truck on to asphalt, about 6 feet. It landed directly on the PCMCIA wireless card. The card is like a marracha. The slot no longer works becuase it broke the moterboard (a big crack all the way thorough)where the slot attaches. Everything else works, touch screen and all. If the card would have been internal the laptop would have survived without incident.
A director rides his road bike daily 15 miles each way rain and shine. After destroying 5 motherboards in his Toshiba Tecra S1 in less than a year we gave him a CF-50. He still has it and it has yet to fail. That was 3 years ago.
The phone has 256MB of RAM and a 1GHz processor, which do the job reasonably well, though the Anna interface will likely leave something to be desired for many smartphone users.
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I work for a large city on the west coast and here are some examples of what the semi rugged and fully rugged line are used for.
Our police use the CF-30 in thier vehicles. A weapon accidently discharged in a vehicle and went through the laptop. IT STILL WORKS. The local panasonic rep has it now and uses it for demos.
The City Coroner has the CF-19. When it gets splashed with bodily fluids they rinse it off with a water hose and does it with alcohol. This happens daily.
I have a CF-72 in my office someone dropped from the seat of a dump truck on to asphalt, about 6 feet. It landed directly on the PCMCIA wireless card. The card is like a marracha. The slot no longer works becuase it broke the moterboard (a big crack all the way thorough)where the slot attaches. Everything else works, touch screen and all. If the card would have been internal the laptop would have survived without incident.
A director rides his road bike daily 15 miles each way rain and shine. After destroying 5 motherboards in his Toshiba Tecra S1 in less than a year we gave him a CF-50. He still has it and it has yet to fail. That was 3 years ago.