Readers, have you noticed? As long as it can be electrified, Panasonic will produce. This is very similar to its early master Philips.
Let's take a look at other classic notebooks in the Technical Research Institute: ASUS EEEPC, IBM ThinkPad Butterfly Machine and Sony Vaio UX50, all of which were born for toughness, and the notebook series we are going to talk about today is Toughbook notebook, which only appeared in the late1990s. At that time, Panasonic and eight other Japanese electrical appliance manufacturers (Panasonic, Sony, Sharp, NEC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Toshiba) Inheriting Grandpa Konosuke's consistent thought, Panasonic continued to throw a straight ball: another new product.
However, at that time, Panasonic, as the overlord of Japanese electrical appliances, can be said to include all the "electrified" products. The last few things you can and can't do are probably only laptops. However, there were already many competitors in the notebook computer market at that time, besides Japanese competitors, there were also two forces, the United States and Taiwan Province. This is definitely not an easy market to win.
Therefore, Panasonic locked in the military market from the beginning, and with the help of the whole group, introduced a series of military regulations such as anti-fall, anti-compression, anti-splash, anti-dust and so on in the Toughbook notebook computer, and even used the air conditioning technology within the group, which made the early Toughbook run stably for a long time without a built-in fan. Due to the rave reviews, three kinds of products, full-reinforced, semi-reinforced and business-reinforced, have come out one after another. Among them, in order to distinguish it from Toughbook, the commercial Qianggu series adopted the brand of "Let's Note" in the Japanese market. The Toughbook CF-S 10 discussed in this paper is called Let's Note CF-S 10 in Japan, and there is basically no difference between the two models.
No matter which series of Toughbook it is, it seems that there is nothing wrong with eating a bullet. The whole fuselage is square, much like an ammunition box or a tactical toolbox. Toughbook CF-S 10 not only has a built-in TPM chip, but also supports the security function of vPro. Better than ordinary laptops on the market. Can withstand 76 cm high boot drop, 100 kg A surface abnormal pressure, the whole glass of water directly poured on the keyboard.
Due to the setting of business model, the built-in "lifting" optical drive and telephone line hole always have the feeling of opening the walkman.
The most popular thing about Panasonic Toughbook is its unique design. However, these strange designs at first glance, if you think about it carefully, you will find that there are still very important reasons. Let's give a few examples:
Fog screen: At that time, mirror screen was popular, and there was no clean room snake glue/water glue process at that time, so the mirror screen was highly reflective and could even be used as a cosmetic mirror after polishing. For writers, this is simply too painful. Panasonic, which focuses on commercial users, is one of the few models in the market that still insists on fog screen. (Thinkpad also insists)
Built-in "Super Multi" ports: In the 12 inch body, there is a USB 3.0 port, a card reader, a D-sub 15 pin VGA port and a PC card slot on the right side, and there are two sets of USB 2.0 ports, HDMI, RJ-45 Ethernet ports and RJ- 16544 on the left side. There is also a handsome CD-ROM in the fuselage. There is nothing wrong with the built-in optical drive, but what is the built-in telephone line hole for? Is it used to send and receive quotations by fax? It feels so retro.
Different from ordinary people's strange manipulation of Panasonic Toughbook, it is probably difficult for people who have not used its keyboard and mouse to understand. The first one is the keyboard, and the feel of the keyboard is very different from that of ThinkPad in the same period of that year. From the hardcore ThinkPad to the Toughbook, your first impression should be that the keyboard feels sticky, and there is no way to 100% make sure that your input is correct. However, intuition is to know if there is any wrong touch and press the wrong key. The most amazing thing is that after using Toughbook for a few days, you will find that you are not used to the hard touch of Thinkpad. This is the first monster.
In addition, there are no independent function keys on the compact 83-key keyboard area. As long as the Fn key is pressed, the key combination and corresponding functions will be displayed in the middle of the screen. Then Ins and? Del two buttons, next to the Alt key on the right. When I first started using it, I often couldn't find the button ... this is the second strange thing.
Again, the touchpad of TouchBook CF-S 10 is "round"! And the finger runs around the outer ring, which is equal to the effect of the mouse wheel. Besides, what's more interesting is HDD hard disk? Five indicators, namely SD card, CapsLock uppercase lock, NumLock numeric key lock and ScrollLock, are put on the touch panel little by little. Moreover, Panasonic is the main promoter of SD card specification (do you remember Sony's memory stick? ), in order to SD card, it is also necessary to make an independent card reader optical signal. Moreover, the sound of the buttons on the touchpad is simply too small to be true, which also makes it feel strange and sticky. This is the third monster.
▲ The quiet keyboard creates a sticky feeling.
Although these features are strange, they are also cute. As a Yamato nation, everyone in Japan should keep quiet in the office. So sticky keys and mouse are quieter. But I don't quite understand why the touchpad should be made into such a small circular touchpad, and why some function keys should be fortress to areas where people can't find them. Actually, the space is not that small.
One of the favorite laptops of Linux geeks ▲ One of the favorite laptops of Linux geeks, Thinkpad and Macbook are tied for three kings.
At that time, I had a Panasonic, MacBook or Thinkpad laptop with a sticker on the A side. Don't think about it. He must be a geek. When he turns on the computer, he usually installs Linux, and a few maverick guys install some operating systems that people seldom use, such as FreeBSD and NetBSD.
Let me explain Geek, Hacker and Nerd first: from the general point of view of the open source code community, from the technical point of view, these three lowest levels are Nerd, just like slime, and then upgraded to a certain level. Finally, the successful job-hopping is called Geek, and finally it becomes a positive result, reaching Lv99. Readers, please don't get me wrong. The upgrade system here is different from that of Japanese otaku.
Unlike those hackers who are often misused outside, those who take pleasure in destroying other people's systems or even committing crimes, we disdain to call them hackers. So, everyone in slime, please pay attention to correct the muggle shouting "The hacker stole my password". It shows that our family is noble. Do you understand?
At that time, geeks, because the development of Linux graphical interface was far less mature than that of terminal user interface (TUI), many people used TUI for most of their work. Don't laugh, really, there is Yan Ruyu in the terminal. There is no problem playing Frozen or Star Wars on the terminal!
▲ There is no problem in playing Frozen or Star Wars on the terminal!
Because geeks rely heavily on laptops (because of the tradition of writing programs in cafes ...), a durable, easy-to-use, light and short laptop has become the best "terminal" for geeks. Take Toughbook CF-S 10 as an example. It has a body close to the military regulations, with a weight of 1.35 kg, a screen of 12 inch and an actual battery life of 6 hours. If it wasn't too expensive and the keyboard felt very special, the ThinkPad X series notebook would have been blown up long ago. In those days, geeks who had the money to buy a Panasonic paper money (bought from Japan) were dubbed "elders" because they were really noble and only the elders could afford it.
However, it is incredible that many geeks, including the author, carry a HHKB Pro 2 keyboard with them. So whether the keyboard is easy to use is not the point.
Why bring a thin laptop? (covering face)
Back then, at 20 1 1, did you buy a Toughbook or did we note it? Where is it now? Would you like to share your short story with us in the comments?