Just got a good look at the Toughbook line from Panasonic. I’ve always liked these things – nice round touchpad, great materials, excellent battery life – but take a look at this monster. This is the T5 ($1,899), an ultralight toughbook with touchscreen and – get this – a hand strap. You hold it like a book and rather than having a swivel screen, you just tap on the 12-inch TFT. Best of all, like all in the new series (T5, W5, and the Y5), it has embedded WAN from Cingular, Sprint, or Verizon.
The W5 is a 3-pound thin and light with built-in optical, similar to the previous Toughbook models.
The Y5 is a bit bigger with a 14-inch screen. We’ll have video of all three momentarily.
I think the title should be Panasonic Toughbook Line with WAN…
you may be right…
I’ve had a W2 for 3 years and people still ask me about it when I take it out. The slim toughbooks are by far the best designed notebooks in PC-land. (And better battery life than Macs too.)
Do you know when the W5 gets to the US? I hope they put 802.11n networking in it.