I've been a firefighter, paramedic, and flight paramedic for 20 years, and have used Panasonic Toughbooks for 11 of those, in their various models. Trust me when I say they are more than tough. Not meant for gaming of course, but I've used them on the ground, not only for vehicle mapping and dispatch programs, but for PCR's and importing data like cardiac monitoring and vital signs during medivacs in Alberta and BC, when ambient outdoor temps are -50C.... it goes outside to inside and back out without condensation issues. The LCD does slow to a crawl around -25C, but it's still useable! I've dropped them out of airplanes onto the tarmac, and taken them in open air choppers from 200ft above sea level, to the top of a mountain (2800m). No change in function with altitude, and the keyboard and screen are resistant to heavy sleet (never put your laptop down when in heavy snow....). There are limits, but these things take a lot of abuse over thousands of hours of heavy use and daily jarring / bumping. Amazing product in my experience! #toughbook
Oh okay. I though it was something like that. I have just never seen anything actually use it. :P
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@@DawidDoesTechStuff older business laptops used them a tonne, before thunderbolt was a thing. You walked up to your desk, slapped you laptop onto the station and you got extra USB, charging, additional Monitors, etc
Dawid Does Tech Stuff hey since ya here, Can ya review the SAPPHIRE NITRO RX 570 8GB in 2019? Its a beast in terms of overclocking and I guess you will have fun with it. Don’t get other versions because this is the best version, SAPPHIRE is great 👍
Dawid Does Tech Stuff : cool video mate....but I must confess that I literally was feeling pain in my whole body watching you put it through all of these hard destroying tests :).
once i threw an older version of toughbook from the third floor on a pavement. it survived. fun fact, it was my friend's laptop and it was running while i threw it so HDD took quite a beating.
Yup that was my toughbook. That thing survived many things but being thrown from third floor was something different. Toughbook model CF 27 if someone is interested. Only floppy disk drive stoped working. Laptop as is is still working (on windows XP)
@@DawidDoesTechStuff they dont go in depth about the product just a guy whose gf destroyed his new expensive gaming laptop with a drop and spilled coffee. And they almost recommended this one but mentioned it didnt have a gaming option.
back in the late 90's-very early 2000's, an uncle of mine used to love a tough laptop because of the type of work he did. he was climbing alot of telephone poles and it was great to have a tough laptop so that you could just clip it to belt while on a pole or just not have to worry about hammer or other tools causing damage.... if there wasnt a market, they wouldnt have sold so many of them. lol.. but yeah, i would love to have a modern laptop that is tough af. all the ones now, crack just setting it down. lol.
Oh wow I had no idea that screen actually existed. But I suppose in really cold enviroments that might be an issue you encounter. Really cool. I think you should have talked a bit about that, its never seen or talked about.
U forgot trial by getting sat on . That would definitely bring this laptop down to its knees xP nice video as always! It’s amazing how ur video quality just keeps improving :D
Uhhhh, it's pretty tough. A similar ruggedized laptop was tested by my army infantry unit a while back, it can withstand getting ran over, Dropped (from 4 story scaffolding), "Don't ask", short-term fire from Tash pit, buried in mud, sand storms, left on ground while raining, being left on the hood of a humvee in 115 degree heat and forgotten about for a day, and finally pounding on the keyboard.
Being an automotive technician and a soldier both in the past, I have had my fair share of experience with toughbooks over the years. They took a lot of abuse from soldiers and mechanics and usually survived. Never the most powerful things, but can certainly take abuse.
My dad works for Panasonic and they gave him one for work. Its ridiculously heavy, and it has a core i5 8th gen, and 12 gb ram. He dropped it 5 feet on concrete before and it was somehow fine.
Fun video, I don't think the toughbook was designed to be hit with a hammer. It was however designed to to be ip65 water jet resistant, and 6' drop resistant. It was not designed to play games, it was designed to sit in patrol cars, firetrucks, and utility vehicles. Performance increases with installation of an SSD. That port on the bottom was for a vehicle dock, or desktop docking station/ port replicator. It interacts much better with software as a service or SaaS, business applications.
My shop uses these exact model and it's frustratingly slow trying to do anything, even just loading a pdf manual and maybe even ctrl+f searching if you are crazy really makes you want to 7:14
I'm not sure about your particular model but these laptops have a hidden feature which is a touch screen. They often come with dial up modems built in as well. The BIOS has some crazy settings in it too that you don't see anywhere else. One thing I cant stand on them though are the recessed USB ports that make plugging in most USB sticks nearly impossible.
Hey Dawid, i recently got a RTX 2060 6gb with an i5-9400F. Its the first money i bought with my own money, cost around 1500 dollars. What is your thought on the PC and price?
These got a lot of use in engineering and construction, there was a more metallic version with a tougher screen back. Nice kit and really needed for when some idiot drops it off a building, runs over it, or accidentally leaves it near welding robots or inside an electron beam lab. Don't think it would survive the room sized microwave, we were told if the red light flashes to get out of the room before the automatic door closes. There were Army laptops that probably put even this to shame though.
I have a question for you, do you feel that the 12.5 inch screen is too small? I would like a x240 for school but I kind of think the smaller screen might be a problem compared to the t440
I friggin' love those laptops. Had an x220T (Tablet convertible) that got taken out in a flood. Would've survived that too if my wife had told me that it got soaked, so if I'd waited for it to dry out before turning it on it would've been fine. So sad, because it has the BEST keyboard on a laptop. Only reason I didn't replace it is because of the weight. A little too heavy to use it as a tablet without starting to feel like a brick.
We had lots of them in the military, and they can take really serious beatings. I mean they handle heat and cold like its nothing, they take hits or get dropped, and still work fine. Screen resolution and keyboard are horrendous, but those laptops are the most reliable ones we got. We had some CF28, CF29, CF30, CF-U1 and CF19, and never got disapointed. If you dont run after huge performance, they are beasts in their domain.
I do excavating and hauling so I'm always around heavy equipment. Many laptops and cellphones have met their demise while being used at work. One bit of "dead tech" that I really, really miss is the 2-Way Radios by Nextel. Those things were nearly indestructible! My cellphones are usually cracked within 2 months of me getting them. I crushed my Samsung Note 10+ 5G with one of the track-hoes and the insurance company didn't have any in-stock that they could send me, so I got to upgrade to the Samsung Note 20 Ultra..Yeah, I cracked it within the first month of me having it. I say all that because I'd love to have a genuinely tough laptop and phone, but without any compromises.
It's not meant to be directly hit with intent to break the thing, more for accidentally bumping or dropping it once or twice. Of course it's going to break if you actually go for a hit with any force applied at all, like I'm willing to bet that, even if someone made a metal alloy armored laptop, you can still break it with a hammer when you intend to do so.
We used those @ Verizon. The one I had didn't have the swivel screen. My coworker was using it one day and got mad at how slow it was to close out some trouble tickets we had. Turns out for as tough as these ToughBooks claim to be they can't take a direct punch to the screen! This was around 2009ish
At&t had us using these in the field with cellular connections and a bluetooth printer 😂 Who had U-Verse? The port on the bottom connects to a dock for more ports
@@DawidDoesTechStuff It totally is! Source: Headed IT for a company that bought Dell stuff constantly. Dell still uses them to this day, which is weird, in the era of USB-C and Thunderbolt.
1:57 into it and i cant stop looking at the eyes of the things on his shirte :P And i "lol'ed" so hard at the way you said "tough" at the start i allmost spat the water i was drinking out my nose :P
Wish I would have seen this a few days ago. Would of happily sent you a few cf-c2s 😂. Let me know if you want one. I may be able to procure one for a video.
when you mentioned your neighborhood is violent with laptops, i wondered if you meant people enjoyed smashing laptops or smashing people with them, and so people tend to buy a rugged one to win a fight. lol
i accualy had a panasonic toughbook after my aunt and it had a intel core i5 250m it was terribly overheating so mutch so that it turned of by itself even after i changed the thermal paste
I had a Panasonic tough book from work. Went to my sisters and said "this laptop can be dropped without breaking" dropped it and it never worked again.
Maybe next time it would be a good idea to show the different components inside the laptop? And maybe replace the hard drive with an SSD? THEN drive over it with a Land Rover.
I've been a firefighter, paramedic, and flight paramedic for 20 years, and have used Panasonic Toughbooks for 11 of those, in their various models. Trust me when I say they are more than tough. Not meant for gaming of course, but I've used them on the ground, not only for vehicle mapping and dispatch programs, but for PCR's and importing data like cardiac monitoring and vital signs during medivacs in Alberta and BC, when ambient outdoor temps are -50C.... it goes outside to inside and back out without condensation issues. The LCD does slow to a crawl around -25C, but it's still useable! I've dropped them out of airplanes onto the tarmac, and taken them in open air choppers from 200ft above sea level, to the top of a mountain (2800m). No change in function with altitude, and the keyboard and screen are resistant to heavy sleet (never put your laptop down when in heavy snow....). There are limits, but these things take a lot of abuse over thousands of hours of heavy use and daily jarring / bumping. Amazing product in my experience! #toughbook
Dawids got the hammer out again guess it's hammer time once again🤣🤣🤣
They should've just slapped a shipping label on it and ship it as is.
Right? That's what I thought was going to happen.
😂😂😂
Mooom! There's a strange man outside throwing laptops!
Hahaha!! I was kind of expecting the police to show up. :P
No, tablets?
Oh just a tough book
@@stephaniekelbough3956 what
6:21 That's probably the docking station connector.
Yes, it is.
Oh okay. I though it was something like that. I have just never seen anything actually use it. :P
@@DawidDoesTechStuff older business laptops used them a tonne, before thunderbolt was a thing. You walked up to your desk, slapped you laptop onto the station and you got extra USB, charging, additional Monitors, etc
I actually have mu HP office laptop docked next to me so yeah surely it is a docking port it is quite useful to be honest
Or external battery
I am here for this content on my lunch break
What are you having for lunch?
Dawid Does Tech Stuff a “torta” it’s the Mexican equivalent to a sandwich but it uses different bread and Carne Asada
That sounds delicious. :D
7:13 that short delay from the time the hammer hits to the time Dawid reacts is hilarious.. Goes from happy to scared to acceptance in a split second.
Me : the quality can't get any better"
Dawid : "hold my gpu"
:D
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@@lester9230 nice
@@DINOX86 noice
I realize it is kind of randomly asking but do anybody know of a good place to watch newly released series online ?
The connector you mentioned for 2nd wifi can actually serve an ssd (msata or m.2 depending on the slot itself)
Another fun and original video Dawid,
9:18
*starts looking at custom loop*
*starts praying*
Haha!! Yeah, I do the same everytime I look at it. XD
Solder a 6-Pin PCI power connector to it and see if you can get Half-Life to run on full settings
Haha!! I will solder it to the extra RAM slot.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff Nice!!!!
You could just ask RandomGaminginHD to give ya his Land Rover for this project lol
Haha!! It would have been the best cross over ever. :P
Dawid Does Tech Stuff hey since ya here, Can ya review the SAPPHIRE NITRO RX 570 8GB in 2019? Its a beast in terms of overclocking and I guess you will have fun with it.
Don’t get other versions because this is the best version, SAPPHIRE is great 👍
Whoa, so much rage in this hammer swing
Haha!! It's the only way to swing a hammer. :P
Dawid Does Tech Stuff : cool video mate....but I must confess that I literally was feeling pain in my whole body watching you put it through all of these hard destroying tests :).
It really hurt to do. It felt so wrong on all levels. :(
Dawid the destroyer !!
once i threw an older version of toughbook from the third floor on a pavement. it survived. fun fact, it was my friend's laptop and it was running while i threw it so HDD took quite a beating.
That is crazy!! I hit it with a hammer a couple times while it was running and it was fine, but nothing compares to be flung from the third floor. :O
Yup that was my toughbook. That thing survived many things but being thrown from third floor was something different. Toughbook model CF 27 if someone is interested. Only floppy disk drive stoped working. Laptop as is is still working (on windows XP)
Excellent video. You know Hardware Unboxed mentioned the tough book in their q&a today so this is great that you have this up today. Great video!
Oh awesome!! I didn't know that. I will go check out that video. Thanks for the heads-up.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff they dont go in depth about the product just a guy whose gf destroyed his new expensive gaming laptop with a drop and spilled coffee. And they almost recommended this one but mentioned it didnt have a gaming option.
back in the late 90's-very early 2000's, an uncle of mine used to love a tough laptop because of the type of work he did. he was climbing alot of telephone poles and it was great to have a tough laptop so that you could just clip it to belt while on a pole or just not have to worry about hammer or other tools causing damage.... if there wasnt a market, they wouldnt have sold so many of them. lol.. but yeah, i would love to have a modern laptop that is tough af. all the ones now, crack just setting it down. lol.
I expect you to work this into your regular laptop testing methodology.
Its the only way to test a laptop. :P
@@DawidDoesTechStuff There is one way to take your test to the next level and one up RandomGaminginHD and that's test by fire!
@@themistoclesnelson2163 I really wanted to set it on fire! I just didn't have anywhere to do it responsibly. :(
Great video! But I'm waiting for the video about that sweet looking telecaster in the background
I love that Tele. Its a 2011 Fender old growth Telecaster. :D
Oh wow I had no idea that screen actually existed. But I suppose in really cold enviroments that might be an issue you encounter. Really cool. I think you should have talked a bit about that, its never seen or talked about.
U forgot trial by getting sat on . That would definitely bring this laptop down to its knees xP nice video as always! It’s amazing how ur video quality just keeps improving :D
Haha!! It sounds a bit like you are calling me fat. :P
Thank you very much. This video took ages to make. :D
Uhhhh, it's pretty tough. A similar ruggedized laptop was tested by my army infantry unit a while back, it can withstand getting ran over, Dropped (from 4 story scaffolding), "Don't ask", short-term fire from Tash pit, buried in mud, sand storms, left on ground while raining, being left on the hood of a humvee in 115 degree heat and forgotten about for a day, and finally pounding on the keyboard.
Being an automotive technician and a soldier both in the past, I have had my fair share of experience with toughbooks over the years. They took a lot of abuse from soldiers and mechanics and usually survived. Never the most powerful things, but can certainly take abuse.
Forget ice, boil water with it !
Haha!! That is a great idea.
My dad works for Panasonic and they gave him one for work. Its ridiculously heavy, and it has a core i5 8th gen, and 12 gb ram. He dropped it 5 feet on concrete before and it was somehow fine.
That backplate is not plastic, it's magnesium
All that Slow Mo Though! More please... :D
:D
It's ok Dawid the majority of Land Rovers in the UK haven't been out of a City.
6:22 that port is for a dock. I work at a garage that use tough books
who else got a toughbook ad while watching this
Fun video, I don't think the toughbook was designed to be hit with a hammer. It was however designed to to be ip65 water jet resistant, and 6' drop resistant. It was not designed to play games, it was designed to sit in patrol cars, firetrucks, and utility vehicles. Performance increases with installation of an SSD. That port on the bottom was for a vehicle dock, or desktop docking station/ port replicator. It interacts much better with software as a service or SaaS, business applications.
Okay but did anyone else notice the music playing in the background at like 2:15 is also in Mario Golf for the Gamecube.
I really intrested about the hdd, it was a full sized pc hdd, or a laptop hdd?
The HDD is a 2.5 inch drive. It has very little extra bracing. I don't know how they made that sucker more durable.
The reason it jumped to 90c was because there is a failsafe to heat itself up and prevent concentration.
My shop uses these exact model and it's frustratingly slow trying to do anything, even just loading a pdf manual and maybe even ctrl+f searching if you are crazy really makes you want to 7:14
I'm not sure about your particular model but these laptops have a hidden feature which is a touch screen. They often come with dial up modems built in as well. The BIOS has some crazy settings in it too that you don't see anywhere else. One thing I cant stand on them though are the recessed USB ports that make plugging in most USB sticks nearly impossible.
Hey Dawid, i recently got a RTX 2060 6gb with an i5-9400F. Its the first money i bought with my own money, cost around 1500 dollars.
What is your thought on the PC and price?
Should've gotten ryzen.
Like a 3600 would've done a better job for cheaper
RealistikDash okey still learning. Cheers for he tip
These got a lot of use in engineering and construction, there was a more metallic version with a tougher screen back.
Nice kit and really needed for when some idiot drops it off a building, runs over it, or accidentally leaves it near welding robots or inside an electron beam lab.
Don't think it would survive the room sized microwave, we were told if the red light flashes to get out of the room before the automatic door closes.
There were Army laptops that probably put even this to shame though.
I was screaming at the screen... "Against the wall! Throw it against the wall!!!"
here in italy ebay is filled with thinkpads xD (watching on an x230 with i5 3320m)
Oh that's cool! Those are also very well made laptops.
I have a question for you, do you feel that the 12.5 inch screen is too small? I would like a x240 for school but I kind of think the smaller screen might be a problem compared to the t440
I friggin' love those laptops. Had an x220T (Tablet convertible) that got taken out in a flood. Would've survived that too if my wife had told me that it got soaked, so if I'd waited for it to dry out before turning it on it would've been fine. So sad, because it has the BEST keyboard on a laptop. Only reason I didn't replace it is because of the weight. A little too heavy to use it as a tablet without starting to feel like a brick.
We had lots of them in the military, and they can take really serious beatings. I mean they handle heat and cold like its nothing, they take hits or get dropped, and still work fine. Screen resolution and keyboard are horrendous, but those laptops are the most reliable ones we got. We had some CF28, CF29, CF30, CF-U1 and CF19, and never got disapointed. If you dont run after huge performance, they are beasts in their domain.
I do excavating and hauling so I'm always around heavy equipment. Many laptops and cellphones have met their demise while being used at work. One bit of "dead tech" that I really, really miss is the 2-Way Radios by Nextel. Those things were nearly indestructible! My cellphones are usually cracked within 2 months of me getting them. I crushed my Samsung Note 10+ 5G with one of the track-hoes and the insurance company didn't have any in-stock that they could send me, so I got to upgrade to the Samsung Note 20 Ultra..Yeah, I cracked it within the first month of me having it. I say all that because I'd love to have a genuinely tough laptop and phone, but without any compromises.
Bashed out a tug, and you uploaded, excellent!
Hahaha!!
never as indestructible as the 3310
Nothing will ever be as powerful.
HDD dont like big temp differences, I am not sure if its to do with the close tolerances that they are built on.
This kinda hurts to watch since i'm inlove with electronics. ;_;
I completely agree. It kinda hurt to do. :(
1:14 | "It's not about the internals, It's about what you can do to it." *Insert monka*
07:00 rookie serial killer doing their first session with the very first victim. Then they toughen up and get used to the idea.
Question when did you forget to remodel the kitchen when you remodel the front Room
dawid: testing the toghest pc in the world
me: wow that 's how i unbox stuff
3:00 I thought that the music was playing by the laptop speakers 😂
FYI these are what the army use in armoured vehicles.
that laptop is an absolute unit.
For me a crash test is not that,
it's more like a ... baseball bat,
a round trip in the pool 🤣🤣🤣!
I see you like Strange Planet too!
It's awesome. :D
@6:19 its for a docking station
I feel like these are the laptops mounted in police cars.
It's not meant to be directly hit with intent to break the thing, more for accidentally bumping or dropping it once or twice. Of course it's going to break if you actually go for a hit with any force applied at all, like I'm willing to bet that, even if someone made a metal alloy armored laptop, you can still break it with a hammer when you intend to do so.
Me: watching someone talk about tough books of all things.
Ads: did someone say tough books?
We used those @ Verizon. The one I had didn't have the swivel screen. My coworker was using it one day and got mad at how slow it was to close out some trouble tickets we had. Turns out for as
tough as these ToughBooks claim to be they can't take a direct punch to the screen! This was around 2009ish
At&t had us using these in the field with cellular connections and a bluetooth printer 😂 Who had U-Verse? The port on the bottom connects to a dock for more ports
Port on bottom is for docking station
The thing on the bottom of the laptop is a port for a docking station
That strange port is for a docking station
the laptop temps jumped up when in ice because ice is good insolation the heat couldn't escape.
That port at the bottom of the system is for a Dell dock, kind of like an old Thunderbolt dock solution, for external RJ45/USB/Display/etc.
Oh okay, that's interesting. Seems like a useful port then. :P
@@DawidDoesTechStuff It totally is! Source: Headed IT for a company that bought Dell stuff constantly. Dell still uses them to this day, which is weird, in the era of USB-C and Thunderbolt.
@@DuncanZ64 not weird considering dell PCs look like they’re from 2004 inside even though they’re 2021 release
5:35 good old times When gpu’s were in stock..
1:57 into it and i cant stop looking at the eyes of the things on his shirte :P
And i "lol'ed" so hard at the way you said "tough" at the start i allmost spat the water i was drinking out my nose :P
Wish I would have seen this a few days ago. Would of happily sent you a few cf-c2s 😂. Let me know if you want one. I may be able to procure one for a video.
Laptop watercoolig Dawid Style. Cool!!!
I worked in IT and I've seen these dropped off roofs and run over and they still sorta work.
when you mentioned your neighborhood is violent with laptops, i wondered if you meant people enjoyed smashing laptops or smashing people with them, and so people tend to buy a rugged one to win a fight. lol
docking station port dawid...
You're a docking station port. :D
Old, old video but ice is a very good insulator, my dude. It's why you can sit in an igloo made completely on ice and not freeze.
i accualy had a panasonic toughbook after my aunt and it had a intel core i5 250m it was terribly overheating so mutch so that it turned of by itself even after i changed the thermal paste
You could kill someone with that
Easily. :O
They're built to US MIL-STD specs for impact and water resistance, and I know they get used in combat, so...yeah. In more ways than one.
@@thedungeondelver yes heavy duty military equipment
Also dude, got a question I seen a post on another one of your videos someone commented about your name, what's up with that?
I cringed so much every time you hurt that poor laptop... Alley hurt the most. Still loved it!
The bottom panel is magnesium alloy. Not plastic.
And then there’s me worrying I might drop my external hdd like 3 cm out of my hand onto my desk lmao
Can it run chromeos flex
This was fucking amazing. Really really great video ❤
, I find you and the noob very likeable and interesting.
i have an old thinkpad t61 for work and i thought that was pretty sturdy but this looks like a tank haha
I had a Panasonic tough book from work. Went to my sisters and said "this laptop can be dropped without breaking" dropped it and it never worked again.
Brilliant
We use these things in the FD/EMS
I'm sure it's perfect for that kind of work. Such an important job. :D
Have used these in garages / workshops and they have a hard life.
Maybe next time it would be a good idea to show the different components inside the laptop? And maybe replace the hard drive with an SSD? THEN drive over it with a Land Rover.
Dawid went "Full force"
"It's small but big", "such beefy" That's what she said lmao
It like the thing you use to detonate quarry explosives or launch nuclear missiles..
This laptop deserves to live the rest of it's life in a soft, climate controlled environment. Well done little buddy.
I've seen these tough books used by ambulance paramedics and police for doing work stuff on.
Man you had me laughing all the way through this aaaaaaaaaaaahahaah!
You mad lad, just subbed.
hhhhmmm..... how about a series where Anna tries to destroy stuff, seems like she has a destructive streak in her!!
Ahh the tough book...mine has lasted a couple deployments so I always swear by the crappy thing haha!
Note to self: test water resistance before popping it with a hammer.
Dawid Destroys Tech Stuff
We all used this to call in a predator missile back in 09
You got one that wast already reviewed and "tested" then they returned it LOL