Panasonic Toughbook Tablet

Wow a lot of the people in this thread don&#x27;t get it.<p>This isn&#x27;t for you. This is for doctors, and architects (which is pretty obviously indicated in their marketing material).

6k for a 4K 20&quot; tablet with a 2 hour battery that weighs over 5 lbs with only an i5 and 2GB vram? This isn&#x27;t going to be the ultimate Civ 5 machine that I&#x27;ve been hoping for.

Let me quietly wish that we will see a model with a DisplayPort input so it could be used as an external monitor for a laptop. I would love me a 4K 20&quot; 5.5lbs transportable monitor. Given then weight is pretty much the same as the AOC e2351F I have anyways, the only question would be -- four times as many pixels, fourty times the price. Is pixel density and hardiness worth a magnitude of price difference?

Product so new, they didn&#x27;t even have time to fix the title tag.<p>&quot;&lt;title&gt;Best 10 Inch Rugged Android Tablet - Panasonic Toughbook Tablet (Toughpad FZ-A1)&lt;&#x2F;title&gt;&quot;<p>Jokes aside, the biggest problem is that it falls far short of durability of its sibling Toughpads.<p>&quot;2.5-foot drop rating (bottom side), 1-foot drop rating (26 drops), Magnesium alloy chassis and GFRP rear case&quot;<p>Compared that to other Toughpads.<p>&quot;MIL-STD-810G, 4-foot drop and all-weather IP65 dust and water resistant design&quot;

A little off-topic, but I like how marketers trying to sell Win8 have to use fake application screenshots. Where are the actual apps that let you share blueprints? Oh, right. They&#x27;re not sexy at all, and wouldn&#x27;t benefit from a 4K display.<p>Too bad.

Don&#x27;t let the $6K tag price confuse you.<p>ToughPad, as its older brother ToughBook has its own market of army, police and alike which require rugged equipment.

Dimensions&#x2F;Weight: 18.7”(L) x 13.1”(W) x 0.5”(D), 5.3 lbs.<p>Weighs more than a MacBook Pro 13 (4.5 lbs). This should be marketed as a body-building tool. In fact, I&#x27;m not sure the models in the &quot;Solutions&quot; page are actual users, because they don&#x27;t have gigantic forearm muscles required to hold a 20&quot; 5.3lbs screen from one corner:<p><a href="http://www.panasonic.com/business/toughpad/us/windows-4k-tablet-solutions.asp" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.panasonic.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;toughpad&#x2F;us&#x2F;windows-4k-tab...</a>

Looks sweet. Per Panasonic&#x27;s press release, this will be available in January and cost $5,999 (!)<p><a href="http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20131107007032/en/Panasonic-Toughpad-4K-UT-MB5-Tablet-U.S.-Premiere" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businesswire.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;home&#x2F;20131107007032&#x2F;en&#x2F;Pana...</a>

If they can make a 20&quot; 4K display and put it in a tablet, then why can&#x27;t they just mount it in a desktop display and I&#x27;d be interested in buying it (though whether I have the money is a completely different question). I&#x27;m sure it would be easier to manufacture if they didn&#x27;t care about weight&#x2F;power consumption and there might be a bigger market.

It looks good, apart from one thing: a 2 hour battery life (see <a href="http://tpgweb2.net/panasonic/psci-0897/PSC6102-10_FY13_SS_Toughpad_4K_HR.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tpgweb2.net&#x2F;panasonic&#x2F;psci-0897&#x2F;PSC6102-10_FY13_SS_To...</a>)

Just imagine playing mine craft with so many pixels! I don&#x27;t care about the price or battery life, we are finally in the age of overpowered &#x27;gaming tablets&#x27;

Panasonic is dying... I&#x27;ve been following this company for my whole life. Their concepts are bad and their focus is wrong. Typical Japanese company with board full of elder chairmans, who are afraid of big change. I don&#x27;t see light in this tunnel....

I have to think this has been designed, built, and priced to sell to the sorts of law enforcement organizations that already have the latest armored personnel carriers, and have just a bit more budget to dump.

This might even make sense for me, if:<p>- the display is as bright as the good old toughbooks, means it must be readable in bright sunshine<p>- the system is able to boot Linux<p>- it runs on 12V

Really wanna know what GPU is equipped to cover 4K graphics.

&quot;If you see a stylus, they blew it. If you see a task manager... they blew it.&quot; -Steve Jobs

It looks very interesting...if only it were Android.

This isn&#x27;t for anyone. _Anyone_. Beyond the 300-350 pixels per inch, the &#x27;sharpness&#x27; and the &#x27;detail&#x27; is not perceivable by human eyes. It&#x27;s a wastage of power, memory and CPU&#x2F;GPU resources. This is what happens when Marketing dictates Engineering.