New Panasonic Toughbooks - CF-W5, CF-T5 and CF-Y5

Panasonic has unveiled three new laptops that will be placed on their Business-Rugged Toughbook line, one thing is true: they have a cool design and meet the Military Specification drop-test but the specifications related to the performance could be a lot better.

The 3 newborns are called CF-W5, CF-T5 and CF-Y5 and some people might say that the first two laptops are twins since the only difference is the screen, while W5 comes with a 12-inch LCD screen, the T5 adds a touch sensitive feature that is perfect for a certain kind of business. Both have an Intel Core Solo processor and 512MB of RAM only which can't be upgraded. To continue the similarity trend, they both cost the same $1,899 and will be in stock during October, have a 60GB hard-drive and battery life has a difference of 2 hours: the W5 can handle 8 hour while the Y5 will work for 10 hours.

CF-Y5 is the best one, bigger display and better performance = a 14.1-inch display, a 1.66-GHz Intel Core Duo L2400 processor and RAM memory expandable to 1.5GB instead of the miserable 512MB. It has a built-in DVD/CD-RW optical drive, supports Bluetooth and can provide 6 hours of battery life, that's the price of better performance. The CF-Y5 will cost $2,199 and be available on December.

All the new models are light (from 3 pounds to 3.5) and tough which means they are also perfect to take for work or university because they can handle impacts and accidental drops like no other notebooks.