Panasonic Toughbook 55

There are lots of working environments were normal computer equipment wouldn’t survive for long. Those in the military, or working with a disaster support agency, or even on a construction site can’t have a mission-critical computer die because of rain, or dust.

For those applications, something beyond a typical Ultrabook is needed. Having had the Panasonic Toughbook 55 for a couple of months, we’ll state from the outset that this machine is a highly tuned answer to the problems we’ve mentioned, and dozens of other situations.

There’s a price to pay though. Our review machine was over $3,000. Cheaper variants with HD non-touch screens are