Panasonic Upgrades Toughbook CF19 & CF 30

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Panasonic's Toughbook range, while indisputably the crème de la crème of rugged portable computing, generally lags behind its peers in terms of what sits inside that tough exterior. The rest of the notebook world was updated to Intel's Centrino 2 update, but it's taken until now for that refresh to propagate to the Toughbook 19 and Toughbook 30.

That update having now happed, though, the systems' specs look as such:

Toughbook 19

• 10.4in 1,024 x 768 touch sensitive display
• 1.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo SU9300
• 2GB RAM
• 80GB shock mounted
• WiFi and Bluetooth built-in, 3G optional
• Three foot drop tested
• Nine hours claimed battery life

• 13.3in 1,024 x 768 (touch sensitive optional)
• 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo SL9300
• 2GB RAM
• 160GB shock mounted
• WiFi and Bluetooth built-in, 3G optional
• Three foot drop tested
• Nine hours claimed battery life

The main consideration with both machines, though, is of course that they are Toughbooks, and everything that entails. The only real difference Centrino 2 makes is that both machines should be a little faster and last a little longer on battery power than in their previous incarnations. You can't say fairer than that.

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