If you want to be rough and tumble with a Santa Rosa-based Toughbook, here we have the latest CF-52 from Panasonic in the US, with latest specs and features. There are two base configs (optimized for $2500 and standard for $1650), which feature: a magnesium alloy chassis and a shock-mounted screen. It is tested to resist drops of up to 2.5 feet on all six sides, whereas its hard drive is tested to resist a drop of 3 feet. The Toughbook CF-52 is also included with a spill-proof keyboard.
For an expected street price of $1,649, the standard CF-52 configuration claims to provide Intel Core 2 Duo T7100 processor at 1.8GHz, the GM956 chipset with built-in X3100 graphics, 1366 x 768 widescreen resolution, a 1GB of DDR2 system memory (max. 2GB+2GB), and an 80GB SATA hard drive. The “optimized configuration” with the price tag of $2,499 consists of Core 2 Duo T7300 at 2GHz, PM965 chipset, the dedicated AMD ATI X2300 graphics empowering 1920×1200 widescreen display, also a 1GB RAM, and an 120GB SATA HDD.
