Panasonic TOUGHBOOK 40 - Watch How We 'Broke' One of the World's Toughest Laptops | Tom's Guide
The Panasonic TOUGHBOOK 40 has been engineered to be among the most durable and resilient laptops on the market. Its design is tailored to withstand hazardous environments and extreme abuse. And, we managed to break it!
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00:00 Well, I guess we'll never, ever get another invite to a hands-on event ever again.
00:07 We went down to the Panasonic European Configuration and Service Centre to check out the Toughbook
00:12 40, one of the most robust and customisable laptops in the world.
00:17 And we broke it.
00:19 Sorry.
00:21 The Toughbook 40 is a rugged laptop designed to take hard bumps, operate in ridiculous
00:26 temperatures and withstand the toughest environments.
00:30 It runs on the latest Intel 11th Gen CPU, has built-in 5G connectivity and a touchscreen
00:37 that can automatically detect rain or if you're wearing gloves and switch its mode to work
00:42 with both.
00:43 Its modular design helps to make it easy to use and future-proof and we even got our hands
00:47 dirty swapping out some components like this fingerprint scanner and we did all of that
00:52 with zero technical know-how.
00:54 And then, after all of that, we broke it.
00:57 By dropping it from a height almost double its recommended limit, not once, but twice.
01:03 The unit that we dropped was still usable with a few dents and scratches and everything
01:06 internal was working totally fine.
01:09 The screen was damaged though, but impressively, within 25 minutes, the unit that we dropped
01:13 was back to full working order as the technicians on location were easily able to swap out the
01:18 screen for a new one with very little hassle.
01:21 The Toughbook 40 is a very specialist machine and it isn't built for consumers, but it was
01:26 super interesting to see how the facilities function and the leaps that are being made
01:30 in the B2B sector to make laptops stronger and more versatile.
01:35 No laptop should be able to survive operating at ridiculous temperatures, under crazy vibrations
01:40 or a 15ft drop onto concrete, but this one can.