This morning in Japan, Panasonic launched the CF-U1. It's the first Toughtbook tablet PC from the Japanese maker powered by an ATOM CPU, a Z520 at 1.33GHz. Our CF-U1 has 1GB of RAM, 16GB of SSD, a 5.6” wide LCD (WSVGA), Wifi A/B/G and Bluetooth. It runs either on Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, or Vista Business SP1. (1.06kg, 184x150x57mm).
Like ALL Panasonic TOUGHBOOKs, the CF-U1 is pretty amazing and tough (Panasonic demonstrated this by dropping it (statistical quotation of 10/10) from a height of 1m20! We were also impressed that Vista seems to run faster than XP on the ATOM CPU... A first!
The CF-U1 will be released in Japan in October.
Enjoy the pictures taken by David M., how regretful to not have been under arrest.
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