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    Panasonic Toughbook 54 Review: Rugged but Rough Around the Edges

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    You can walk into almost any modern electronics store or phone company store and find a smartphone or "phablet" that is waterproof and will survive repeated drops onto concrete. Unfortunately, most stores don't keep rugged notebooks like the Panasonic Toughbook 54 (CF-54) in stock. As a matter of fact, rugged notebooks are almost exclusively purchased by enterprise businesses deploying workers in hazardous environments or by local and federal government agencies (police, firefighters, soldiers, military mechanics, etc.) with servicemen who require PCs that will survive just about anything.

    We took the Panasonic Toughbook 54 and put it through its paces in our lab to see if this sturdy-looking laptop is durable enough to handle some real-world chaos. Keep reading to find out how well it held up.

    Read the full content of this Article: http://www.notebookreview.com/notebookreview/panasonic-toughbook-54-review-rugged-rough-around-edges/
     
    TechnologyGuide staff, Mar 30, 2016
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