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I tried to torture-test Panasonic's ultra-rugged Toughbook. It didn't even blink

Panasonic's new ultra-rugged Toughbook 40 Mk2 is tough enough to operate in extreme temperatures and has two batteries to last for days.

Late last year, I tried out Panasonic's Toughbook 55, a rugged laptop capable of withstanding harsh environments and tough enough to be dropped without fear of breaking. Panasonic's machine is powered by an Intel Core Ultra 7 165H processor, a whopping 64GB of RAM, and like many recent laptops, an NPU (neural processing unit) ensuring solid all-around performance. I ran a couple of benchmarking tests to see how well the device performs, and it achieved an average score of about 10,700 on Geekbench; not too shabby for a laptop equipped with the Ultra 7 CPU.

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