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If you're having trouble with your touch screen, finding that the place you tap is different from where your Toughbook thinks you're tapping, or if you just feel like your touch screen isn't as accurate as it should be, you may need to calibrate it. Calibrating your touch screen is a cinch, but the…

Near the end of last summer, an order came through our website for a scratch and dent Toughbook CF-31, a reliable but modest laptop with no special upgrades added. The Toughbook would be sent to Gil Jeffer in New Jersey, just a stone's throw from our headquarters in central Delaware. As with ev…

Two questions we hear often: “Do I need a mobile data card?” and “What mobile data card do I need?” To help answer, we'll get a little nosy and start asking you some questions of our own. First, where are you going to use your Toughbook? If you’re planning to use your T…

The Panasonic Toughbook line of rugged laptops has earned a lot of impressive looking certifications, but what do they all mean? For this article, we looked at the  CF-31, but other  fully-rugged Toughbook models have similar credentials. Although we did our best to parse all the dense do…

Before you can get the front buttons working on your Toughbook CF-18 or CF-19 running Linux, you will need to download panasonic-hbtn.zip (credit to Heiher for developing the code on which this was based). Click here to download panasonic-hbtn.zip Step-by-step: How to install and configure Xubuntu…