Panasonic Updates Its Toughbook CF-52 And CF-T8

Rugged notebooks aren’t for everybody, but if you are in the market for a rugged notebook, Panasonic has just announced two updated models of its rugged Toughbook computers, the CF-52 notebook and the CF-T8 tablet-alternative. The former now sports Intel’s Core i5 CPU clocked at 2.53GHz, 2GB of RAM, 250GB shock mounted hard drive, mobile broadband modem, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The CF-T8 is powered by an Intel Core 2 CPU clocked at 1.6GHz and also sports a 250GB shock mounted hard drive, Wi-Fi, mobile broadband, Bluetooth. It’s powered by Windows 7 with an option to downgrade it to Windows XP.