Panasonic's Rugged Toughbook 40 Tested

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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, Tom Guide team's managed to break it!
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00:00Well, I guess we'll never, ever get another invite to a hands-on event ever again.
00:07We went down to the Panasonic European Configuration and Service Centre to check out the Toughbook
00:1240, one of the most robust and customisable laptops in the world.
00:17And we broke it, sorry.
00:21The Toughbook 40 is a rugged laptop designed to take hard bumps, operate in ridiculous
00:26temperatures and withstand the toughest environments.
00:30It runs on the latest Intel 11th Gen CPU, has built-in 5G connectivity and a touchscreen
00:37that can automatically detect rain or if you're wearing gloves and switch its mode to work
00:42with both.
00:43Its modular design helps to make it easy to use and future-proof and we even got our hands
00:47dirty swapping out some components like this fingerprint scanner and we did all of that
00:52with zero technical know-how.
00:54And then after all of that, we broke it by dropping it from a height almost double its
00:59recommended limit, not once, but twice.
01:03The unit that we dropped was still usable with a few dents and scratches and everything
01:06internal was working totally fine.
01:09The screen was damaged though, but impressively within 25 minutes, the unit that we dropped
01:13was back to full working order as the technicians on location were easily able to swap out the
01:18screen for a new one with very little hassle.
01:21The Toughbook 40 is a very specialist machine and it isn't built for consumers, but it was
01:26super interesting to see how the facilities function and the leaps that are being made
01:30in the B2B sector to make laptops stronger and more versatile.
01:35No laptop should be able to survive operating at ridiculous temperatures, under crazy vibrations
01:40or a 15ft drop onto concrete, but this one can.