Technology|July 13, 2011 12:11 pm

Panasonic intros rugged Toughbook H2 tablet, steps up to Core i5 and full-sized ports


When Panasonic denounced a Toughbook H1 inscription final year, it during slightest got a difficult partial down pat. This Windows 7 line-up had a magnesium amalgamate framework as well as met a military’s MIL-STD-810G standards for shock, dust, heat, water, as well as cold insurgency — comforting claims for building a whole workers, soldiers, as well as flattering most any a single used to operative in a furious (or, during least, station up). The complaint was, it ran upon a dinky Atom processor, as well as left a imperishable sorts regulating it with only a single tiny pier for attaching peripherals. Clearly, Panny concluded those were a little critical shortcomings, since a code ultimate H2 goes a diminutive bit over small spec bumps. The ultimate era leaps brazen to a 1.7GHz Core i5-2557M ULV processor with Intel’s vPro technology, along with USB 2.0 as well as sequence sockets, as well as space for possibly a second USB pier or an Ethernet jack. At a entry-level (!) cost of $3,449, you’ll get a 10-inch (XGA), 6,000-nit display, 4GB of RAM, a removable 320GBGB 7200RPM shock-mounted tough drive, WiFi as well as Bluetooth 2.1 radios, as well as identical tiwn swappable batteries which guarantee up to 6 as well as a half hours of runtime. After that, a list of probable add-ons runs prolonged for corporations as well as supervision agencies with low pockets. These embody up to 8GB of memory, a 128GB SSD, Gobi 3G or 4G air wave (the latter’s entrance in a fall), GPS, barcode or RFID reader, 2 megapixel camera, an insertable or contact-less SmartCard reader, or a fingerprint sensor. Good thing a trainer is treating, huh?

Update : Lots of we have been asking about a weight. Here’s your answer, folks: it’s 3.5 pounds, compared with 3.4 pounds for a last-gen H1.

Panasonic Toughbook H2

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