Comments on: Panasonic “Design is Really Tough” Book

By: psu

psu — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 13:16:13 +0000

The best thing about Japanese laptops is that they care about *small*. I dream of having a 2lb travel laptop that I use mostly to put pictures into. But I’ve never been able to find one that wasn’t a Japanese import or something, much less anything that will run macos

By: bbum

bbum — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:58:30 +0000

Yeah. I’d like to see that pop-top style CD/DVD drive deal with any kind of abuse. Especially given that it extends to the corner. One good drop on the corner and I would lay money on that thing not closing or opening correctly ever again.

I recently dropped my powerbook (actually, it jumped off the back of my bike at about 15mph). On the optical drive corner (front right). There is this big hunk o’aluminum bent and sticking out from the front of the machine directly above the optical drive slot. Yet, the machine still completely works. And I have this neat metally twangy thing to play with in meetings.

By: John C. Randolph

John C. Randolph — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:55:17 +0000

Rumor has it that these panasonic laptops are somewhat more shock-resistant than the average, but they still run Windows, so what’s the point?

-jcr