Panasonic Story

You're rushing to catch a plane. With your notebook in hand, you accidentally trip. Your notebook hits the floor.....hard.

Devoid of several ruggedized features, the prognosis for your notebook could be fatal. What good is it if you make the flight and your meeting, but your primary business tool doesn't?

It's unavoidable. Notebooks bounce around in cars, on trains, in planes, and get knocked when they're being carried. According to the industry surveys the leading causes of notebook damage are drops and spills.

Standard to all Toughbooks.
Shock-mounted HDDs All Toughbook hard disk drives are mounted in shock-absorbing polymer compounds insulating the HDD from vibration and shock, while protecting your mission-critical data.

Standard to all Toughbooks.
Vibration-resistant LCDs To prevent costly damage to the LCD display, internal dampeners prevent damage by absorbing shock and sudden impact.

Standard to Toughbook 34 and 27 models.
Flexible Internal Connectors Should the notebook be dropped or bumped, flexible connectors between the hard disk drive and system board protect against the transfer of shock between these components.

Standard to all Toughbooks.
In our continuing effort to better understand the magnitude and causes of notebook damage problems, we again commissioned IDC to conduct an in-depth market analysis.

IDC Survey
IDC surveyed 350 medium-sized and large organizations that employ large fleets of notebooks. 250 were IS power buyers of notebooks; 100 were line-of-business managers with staff using notebooks. Here are a few of the highlights from the 1999 IDC Damage Survey.