Panasonic has a new version of its Toughbook laptop with omklapbaar touchscreen announced. The manufacturer has a magnesium-alloy body with carbon fibre for the solid hybrid used, of which the weight remains low.
The Toughbook CF-MX3 in the Lets Note series contains a mat, a 12.5-inch screen with a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels, an intel Core i5-4200U, 4GB ram and a ssd of 128GB. There will also be a model with Core i7 and double the memory and ssd capacities. This is a huge upgrade compared to the Toughbook CF-AX2, which Led last year looked at and that a 11.6″screen with a resolution of 1366×768 pixels. The weight would be with the new model still very low, by the use of a magnesium alloy with carbon for the housing. The special feature is that the screen is completely to flip to a tablet mode, like the Lenovo Yoga.
Panasonic adds two usb 3.0 ports, hdmi, vga and a sd card reader and also there is an old dvd-drive. Probably the optical drive added because the Toughbooks because of their robustness to be used in environments where support for a long time is required, and where much with the discs worked.
The price of the Toughbook is still unknown. The model comes in mid-February in Japan, and later the rest of the world.
