10:30 AM

Panasonic’s latest Let’s note/Toughbook laptops:

God bress multinational corporations who remain unafraid to rock the Engrish: there’s a lot of ground to cover on Panasonic’s non-Sonoma (i.e. Carmel/855-based Centrino) sexy new Let’s note lineup--we know them this side of the Pacific as the Toughbook series--which has four new model revisions of the W2, T2, Y2, and R3, so in brief: the W2F and T2F has an 12.1-inch XGA screen, Pentium M 753, 256MB RAM, 40GB HDD, 802.11a/b/g, and SD; the Y2F has a 14.1-inch SXGA (1400x1050) display, Pentium M 758, 60GB HDD, 256MB RAM, 802.11a/b/g, and SD; the diminutive R3F has a 10.4-inch XGA LCD, Pentium M 753, 256MB RAM, 40GB HDD, and, of course, 802.11a/b/g, and SD. Now we’re going to go on as though we didn’t see these, our importer has run the company card quite enough already this week.