Panasonic Toughbook CF-Y7

-April 3, 2008-
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It’s something unusual to consider Panasonic Toughbook products as one of the best laptop brands. Their price tags are expensive and their specifications are not as good as other popular laptop brands. Toughbook CF-Y7, despite it’s still expensive, probably is an exception. If we are talking about size, Toughbook CF-Y7 is big, wide, and obviously it’s not thinner than MacBook Air. However, Toughbook CF-Y7 weighs only 3.5 lbs, lighter than most laptops with 14” monitor screen size.

Panasonic claims its Toughbook CF-Y7 would suit all high-class businessmen’s needs. Well, for travelers and businessmen the most important issues usually are the keyboard and mouse. When your laptop mouse and keyboard are not responsive, you’ll try to search for a better laptop. Lenovo ThinkPad laptops and Apple MacBook Air have better keyboard and mouse than Toughbook CF-Y7. But still, I think CF-Y7 is one of the best in these issues.

Sadly, this laptop is expensive and consumes too much energy. When newer laptops always consume less energy than the older ones, Toughbook CF-Y7 still needs 16 watts in its idle mode. About features, there is also nothing special about this laptop. It only has 2 USB ports, one SD card slot, and one VGA-out. Surprisingly, Toughbook CF-Y7 storage capacity is only up to 80 Gigabytes. Well, I think in this era a laptop with minimum 120 GB hard disk capacity is absolutely needed.

Specification:

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo L7500 (1.6 GHz)
Monitor: 14.1 " (diagonal).
Graphics card: Intel GMA X3100
Weight: 3.5 pounds
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Hard Disk Capacity: 300 Gigabytes
Useful For: Businessmen, travelers

Price: around $2,300-$2,700

Rating: (7/10)