I can't remember the last time I used the cd drive on any of my laptops

With software and manuals coming on CD's more now, I wouldn't want to be carrying a separate USB Drive around myself.

Still happy with my "bulky" dell.

Compared to most other laptops these days the old dells are like garden slabs.

Anyone use a panasonic toughbook? Any good?

We've had Toughbook CF18's for around 8 years, But they've now been retired.

 

I've moved onto the Panasonic Toughpad FZG1,  Fantastic rugged weatherproof tablet, Ideal for field work

just buy a second hand lappy if its getting lugged around site,ive got a company toshiba thats around 7 yr old and scratched to bits and a bit **** but its only got work software on and its fine does what it needs to do

the toughbooks are good they do a cf-72 ( with a cd drive built in ) which is bigger and tougher then a normal laptop also has a serial port built in.

The cf-18 has been retired but there is cf-19 out there.

 

The only trouble i can see with toughbooks if you drop it on a tiled floor you are going to break the tile before the laptop

I can't remember the last time I used the cd drive on any of my laptops

 

Too right, 5 days before the deadline on returning my old one for an upgrade, thought I'd better try the DVD which I hadn't used

in about 2 years. Oh fook... It was buggered.

 

Managed to get a replacement from ebay last minute. Worth it as replacement laptop is free as long as old one gets back working 100%.

I am starting to sway.

Been looking at Lenovo thinkpad (bottom model) and another dell. Definitely not small laptops, but come with all the connectivity that a smaller laptop doesn't.

Been looking at Lenovo thinkpad (bottom model)

mine came from the outlet

http://outlet.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/outlet_gb/LenovoPortal/en_GB/catalog.workflow:expandcategory?current-catalog-id=A2237039E3A94564A38AED4E43ECE9B5&current-category-id=F022F18B4017EBE14BF7EB852BB4F9BB#/?page-index=1&facet-1=1&page-size=100&sort-criteria=1

will the co. buy it ?

do you have leon ?

mine came from the outlet

http://outlet.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/outlet_gb/LenovoPortal/en_GB/catalog.workflow:expandcategory?current-catalog-id=A2237039E3A94564A38AED4E43ECE9B5&current-category-id=F022F18B4017EBE14BF7EB852BB4F9BB#/?page-index=1&facet-1=1&page-size=100&sort-criteria=1

will the co. buy it ?

do you have leon ?

Car?