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Here at Bob Johnson’s Computer Stuff, we get a lot of questions about rugged laptops that can be used for car and truck diagnostics. As automotive technology rapidly advances, mechanics require reliable, rugged computers to access and service everything from a transmission to a vehicle's compu…

When you are managing a field team, the last thing you want to slow down is their gear. Between unexpected weather, remote job sites, and physically demanding tasks, your crew is already facing enough challenges. The devices that they use, especially their computer, need to be maintained. That&rsquo…

Dell entered the rugged laptop business in 2006 with a sturdier version of their popular consumer grade Latitude D620 and called it the ATG. Rugged reviews and comparisons of the original ATG D620 and XFR D630 showed that Dell had work ahead of them to be considered rugged. Panasonic Toughbooks…

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…

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…