https://biz.panasonic.com/jp-ja/products-services/letsnote/l...
https://content.biz.panasonic.com/jp-ja/fai/15800/raw
This is not from a wayback machine copy of dynamism.com - this is a new, Windows 10 laptop in 2020 (!)
This variant was once offered in the US market something like a decade ago for "business-rugged" use under the Toughbook brand, but that magnesium exterior shell commanded a high price point; I suspect the ThinkPad T series would have been a direct competitor at the time with better performance options and being much cheaper.
I remember checking out new laptops from Japan and being amazed at how small they are... With zero change, they now look antiquated :D
The case was from magnesium alloy and it weighted exactly 2 lbs (less than a book of the same size I couldn't tell I had it in my backpack).
Perhaps today it might not seem like a feat but that was 12 years ago.
This was 10 years ago, but even then CD-ROMs seemed antiquated. It doesn't surprise me that Japan would be one place they're still common.
The only thing that Linux lacked at the time was ability to turn on-off economy mode (at the time never seen that in laptops, it was to keep charge at 80% to extend battery life). I needed to boot to windows to switch that. And functional/multimedia keys although I was able to find software to get that to work.
I would imagine the support would be better now.
Today companies so busy trying to “slim things down.”
P.S. why doesn’t apple release a matte display laptop? I would buy it.
feel free to put a matte transparency on your high density screen to make it a low density screen. everyone else would rather have glare.
