Panasonic Toughbook CF-F8

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Reviews for the Panasonic Toughbook CF-F8

Panasonic Toughbook CF-F8
Source: PC Pro
Panasonic's Toughbooks have always occupied a narrow niche in the laptop market. From the fully-ruggedised, stop-a-bullet likes of the CF-19, right down to the dainty but resilient business series, Toughbooks are for people who can't afford a laptop breakdown, but can afford to pay a premium for the privilege. Combines light weight, with good looks, speed, good battery life - and a belligerent resistance to hard knocks.
Mobilität sehr gut, Leistung gut
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 12/01/2008
Rating: performance: 80% mobility: 90%

90% Panasonic Toughbook CF-F8 - Tough Love
Source: Hardware Zone
If anyone is assuming that the Toughbook brigade has breathed their final gasp with last year's 7-series, think again. Panasonic is pushing their hardy sentinels to the fore with a number of 8-series models and the CF-F8 does a good job of maintaining the Toughbook reputation. Do note that only the CF-F8 and CF-W8 (12-inch) models will arrive on local shores and should already be available. The inclusion of the pullout handle was something we liked on the CF-F8. This supplementary grip is not only handy, but it also looks pretty when tucked-in since it sits reasonably flushed with the F8's overall chassis design.
4.5 von 5
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 11/17/2008
Rating: Total score: 90%

Comment

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD: Onboard (shared Memory) GPU built in the GM45 chipset (Montevina). Because of two more shaders and a higher core clock, much faster than the old GMA X3100. Still not advisable for gamers (DirectX 10 games not playable or only with very low settings). The integrated video processor is able to help decode HD videos (AVC/VC-2/MPEG2) , e.g., for a fluent Blu-Ray playback with slow CPUs.

Lower end of Graphics Cards for users who want to play games. New games should run on these cards, but only with decreased details and mediocre resolution.

Intel Core 2 Duo: This is the Core Duo and Core Solo successor with a longer pipeline and 5-20% more speed without more power consumption. As an addition to the Core Duo design there exists a fourth decoder, an amplified SSE-unit and an additional arithmetical logical unit (ALU).

The Core 2 Duo for laptops is identical to the desktop Core 2 Duo processors but the notebook-processors work with lower voltages (0.95 to 1188 Volt) and a lower Frontside bus clock (1066 vs 667 MHz). The performance of equally clocked notebooks is 20-25% lower than Desktop PCs because of the lower Frontside bus clock and the slower hard disks.

SP9300:
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

14.1": 14 inch display size is a mixture between the small formats of subnotebooks and the 15 inch standard display.
The reason why so many people like displays with medium size is, that this size is not exhausting for the eyes, does not need too much current and the laptops can be kept quite compact.
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

1.7 kg: This sub-notebook weighs less than the average of all notebooks and represents a medium class of weight among the sub-notebooks. 11 inch displays are normal for this class of weight.

Panasonic: Panasonic is an international notebook manufacturer, but with rather small market shares and few laptop reviews. Panasonic concentrates its notebook sortiment to the niche of ruggedized notebooks, which are made for rough outdoor usage. The ratings are slightly above average.

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90%: There do not exist many models, which are rated better. The most ratings get ratings, which are a bit worse.

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