Panasonic Toughbook CF-Y7

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Reviews for thePanasonic Toughbook CF-Y7

90% Panasonic Toughbook CF-Y7
Source: Techradar
The Panasonic Toughbook CF-Y7 is an amazing laptop for any user looking for a lightweight, fully-featured machine for more than simply writing documents. The semi-rugged design means it can be used in a wide variety of locations and the long-life battery makes it ideal for anyone who needs to work on the move for long periods of the day. Overall, this is a winning ultraportable.
4.5 von 5, Vearbeitung gut, Mobilität sehr gut, Ausstattung gut, Leistung schlecht
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 05/04/2008
Rating: Total score: 90% performance: 40% features: 80% mobility: 90% workmanship: 80%

80% Panasonic Toughbook CF-Y7
Source: PC Mag
Companies that design laptops from the ground up can sustain a competitive advantage over those that buy their designs from other (mostly Taiwanese) manufacturers. Panasonic , for example, is what you could call a core manufacturer, optimizing its Toughbook laptop line with custom-tailored frames and integral components put together by its own engineers. Its latest, the Toughbook CF-Y7 ($2,370 street), owns the distinction of being the lightest 14-inch ultraportable in the market. This business-rugged ultraportable can take some physical abuse and is the lightest to integrate a 14-inch screen and optical drive.
4 von 5, Preis schlecht, Mobilität gut, Display gut
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 03/31/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 40% display: 80% mobility: 80%

80% Panasonic Toughbook Y7
Source: Laptop Mag
The Panasonic Toughbook Y7 is expensive, but with the high price tag comes rock-solid durability, excellent battery life, and the largest screen you can get under four pounds. The biggest trade-off is speed, but if you need to tote your notebook cross-country and aren’t too keen on squinting, the Y7 is a wise investment.
4 von 5, Mobilität sehr gut
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 03/17/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% mobility: 90%

67% Panasonic Toughbook CF-Y7
Source: PC Pro
Panasonic's semi-rugged series of laptops is a compromise between stylish but fragile consumer notebooks and expensive rugged portables that can shrug off a fall down a flight of stairs or a spot of word processing in the rain. Larger and more powerful than its predecessor, but battery life suffers as a result.
4 von 6, Leistung gut, Mobilität schlecht
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 03/11/2008
Rating: Total score: 67% performance: 80% mobility: 40%

80% Panasonic Toughbook CF-Y7 notebook computer
Source: vnunet.com
One doesn’t expect a so-called rugged notebook to look as good as the Toughbook CF-Y7.
The name conjures up an image of a bulky computer weighing several kilograms, with a weak processor and lots of heavy, ugly cladding. Fortunately, this Toughbook is unlike that in almost every way. It uses a Core 2 Duo L7500 processor, running at 1.6GHz. Admittedly this is at the slow end of the dual-core range, but the ‘L’ indicates that it’s a low-voltage model, which is useful for keeping down both heat generation and power usage. This thin, light notebook is ideal for anyone frequently on the move and will take a knock or two.
(von 5): 4, Ausstattung 5, Leistung 3, Preis/Leistung 4, Mobilität gut
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 02/06/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% performance: 60% features: 80% mobility: 80%

Foreign Reviews

Leistungsstarkes und schickes Leichtgewicht
Source: Notebook / Organizer / Handy - 3-4/08
, Length Unknown, Date: 02/22/2008
Rating: performance: 80% display: 80% mobility: 80%

80% Panasonic Toughbook CF-Y7
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Long, Date: 02/06/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 50% performance: 80% features: 30% display: 30% mobility: 70% workmanship: 90% ergonomy: 50% emissions: 90%

60% Robustes Leichtgewicht
Source: c't - 4/08
, Medium, Date: 01/31/2008
Rating: Total score: 60% performance: 60% features: 70% display: 4% mobility: 90% ergonomy: 80%

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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 is an integrated (onboard) graphic chip on a Mobile Intel 965GM chipset. It is the successor of GMA 950 and features a fully programmable pipeline (supports Aero Glass fully and DirectX 10 with newest drivers). The peformance of the X3100 is clearly better than the GMA 950, still demanding modern games won't run fluently.

Only older games can be played fluently with these graphics chips (if they were not too demanding). Shared memory graphic cores in this category got the advantage of less heat production and longer battery runtimes. For office, internet, image processing, and video editing tasks these graphics chips are still useable without any restrictions.

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.

L7500:
>> 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.

1.6 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.

76.71%: This rating is not convincing. It must be considered, that there exist hardly any laptops, which receive a rating below 60%. This notebook is evaluated below average, this is not really a recommendation for purchase.

>> Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.