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I would probably choose the CG-320A battery size.

Never had a failure with multiple pi's running in industrial applications.

https://na.industrial.panasoni...

a. Powerful error detect and corrective function
b. Static wear leveling
c. Data recovery at power failure in writing
d. Automatic refresh function
e. Bad block management

These are the ones I use:
https://na.industrial.panasoni...

Never had a failure with multiple pi's running in industrial applications.

https://na.industrial.panasoni...

a. Powerful error detect and corrective function
b. Static wear leveling
c. Data recovery at power failure in writing
d. Automatic refresh function
e. Bad block management

These are the ones I use:
https://na.industrial.panasoni...

Incorrect, Tesla use Panasonic cells rated for 3000 cycles.

Not sure why a comment with unbacked claims got modded +5 Informative. Googling leads to no official claim for this 3000 cycle figure. Indeed, Panasonic's official datasheet for the 18650B used in Teslas indicates an end-of-life (defined at 20% capacity loss) after 300 cycles.

Of course, that's because in Panasonic's test cycle the cell is deep-discharged down to 2.75 V, and obviously if you are careful with your EV's charging pattern you will have much better performance. 3000 is not impossible, but it's not the nominal rating, and Panasonic would be unwise to guarantee a performance that is highly dependent on good behaviour by the user. In any case, this is irrelevant since 500 cycles are plenty for most people, except possibly professional drivers.

My point is, if you connect to a V2G system, the grid company will want to use the full capacity and maximum power that the vehicle is capable of delivering (that's what they pay for), so with that kind of cycling you can expect a lifetime closer to 300 than 3000.

There are nuve pizza ovens and breadmakers that make the job easier.
I suppose that making a full automated pizza machine is possible and easier than a self driving veichle.
Or going actually to an Italian restaurant to eat pizzas, oer even ask a these restaurans to delive could and is a better option.

Since the original question doesn't mention limits for screen size or prize, I'd suggest the Panasonic Toughpad 4k. It's 20", runs Windows by default, and only comes with 256GB SSD, but fulfills the requrement of 16GB. It happens to cost about $4k

Typical lithium 18650's have energy densities of 200-230 Wh/kg. This battery is less than half as good. Let's see if they can improve it but this is a non-starter for now. Regular Panasonic 18650 specs: http://industrial.panasonic.co...

Right, 200 cycles is too short. These don't even compare well with Panasonic's current NCA cells, which are reported as 675 Wh/l. After 300 cycles the Panasonics probably store more energy.

I would agree with that to some extent.

But remember, these pet-projects, such as Firefox OS has potential as it becomes bigger to serve the needs of corporates... just like we recently heard Panasonic using FirefoxOS in the smart-TV's.

And other projects like Thunderbird, which they wanted to downscale or end, serves many millions of users.

And sadly, there is no other privacy-orientated alternatives to Firefox, keeping in mind the massive add-ons eco-system - which work on all 3 major platforms.

Also, it's been like 8 years since iPhone came out, and yet we still don't really have a viable privacy-based alternatives to the likes of android spyware, etc. ... except perhaps, maybe the BlackPhone.

The real competition (in features, that is, not price) for an Apple tablet would be the Panasonic Toughpad 4k, a monster 20-inch tablet with 3840x2560 resolution (that is, 4:3 aspect ratio). It's a beautiful piece of kit but hugely expensive. Apple could put the same panel in a 20 inch "iPad Pro" or "MacPad" and if priced more keenly it could sell well among those doing graphics work who want something more portable than a desktop.

I can confirm that the Panasonic TC-L65WT600 65" 4K UHDTV can play 60 fps 4K over its HDMI 2.0 connector (yes, I actually have access to 4K/60p content and a 4K/60p video server). I have seen it for as low as $3500 on BestBuy.com.

http://www.panasonic.com/busin... [panasonic.com]

I beg to differ, you have to go for high end pro, not low end consumer.

Those TV's are meant for public display and don't have the calibration controls necessary for a consumer display. At $2800.00 I would expect at least 10pt RGB&Greyscale adjustment.

I beg to differ, you have to go for high end pro, not low end consumer.

The model you referenced is no where near "high end pro" for Panasonic. It's not even the better than their best consumer model (which does have "smart" features).

The "business" displays offered by Panasonic are three model years behind their consumer models as far as picture quality is concerned. Unfortunately, now that 4K TV is taking over, we may never see another truly reference display as far as contrast, black level, and color reproduction are concerned, since those are the three things that LCD TVs don't do very well with compared to plasma.

http://www.panasonic.com/busin...

I beg to differ, you have to go for high end pro, not low end consumer.

Use the source Luke.

Holy FUCK BETA, Batman! You're right! Straight from the head tag of the Panasonic US website:

Mega Menu and Global Header Drop Down Script
script type="text/javascript" src="http://www-images.panasonic.com/includes/js/jquery-1.7.1.min.js"
script type="text/javascript" src="http://www-images.panasonic.com/includes/js/header/jquery.hoverIntent.minified.js"

Good shot my friend!

Sod that. Just point them at their own web site, where jQuery is included in every page, and tell them they've been hacked.

According to this, it is used by Google, Facebook, AOL, ESPN, and whitehouse.gov. This 20-month old page also has a big list: WordPress.com, Pinterest, Reddit, MSN.com, WordPress.org, Amazon, Yandex, Microsoft.com, GO.com, Ask.com, ESPN, Craigslist, About.com, Go Daddy, Stack Overflow, Huffington Post, Instagram, Slideshare, Fox News, The Guardian, Etsy, LiveJournal, and Weather.com

Who are these fly-by-night sites? You can look at the HTML source for a reputable company's website instead if you want a much more credible source.

Sony Viao L-series all-in-one desktops PCs.

http://www.sony.co.uk/product/...

Fujitsu (no longer Fujitsu-Siemens) Esprimo desktop PCs.

http://www.fujitsu.com/uk/prod...

Panasonic tablet-based PCs running Windows 8.1

http://www.panasonic.com/busin...

panasonic, my bad

Again, not 200$, but servicing a niche market that won't be going away any time soon. Not the prettiest devices, but they aren't built to be pretty. Go for their "semi-rugged" offerings for that. These re made to literally be bullet proof.

As real as working out on a football or soccer field. The concept, method or data must be conveyed to the learner. The learner must work to remember and apply the knowledge. It. Is. Work. Yeah, there are the very gifted for whom it is very easy. But then high athletic achievement is easy for the elite few.

What problem is the tablet supposed to solve, I wonder?

It is important to try and educate the populace. It's good for the society. It's good for the individual. But I get the impression that technology is used as a deflection to try and somehow reduce the effort that memorization and practice demand.

Having said, that, if there is some problem that the portable computer actually solves, then perhaps they should look into the laptops given to soldiers - Panasonic Toughbooks. They talk of "soldier-proofing." They need to talk about "teenager-proofing."

Is more water still being added? How much? Do they know? If the level is supposed to stay constant, don't mess with opening a radioactive tank to install a sonar unit, just mount a fluid level sensor on the exterior of the tank. http://pewa.panasonic.com/assets/acsd/sunx/sensors/discontinued/UA-11.pdf

You can get durable and reliable ARM systems, but they aren't cheap.

I sure hope the computer is better than the website:

http://www.panasonic.com/business/toughbook/fully-rugged-laptop-toughbook-31.asp

Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01fb'

An exception occurred: 'application' /business-solutions/includes/cache-include.inc, line 32

Aside from cracking open a window, some tech is designed to withstand this sort of conditions.

My Casio GZ'one Ravine 2 has (from casio's website):
High Temperature MIL-STD 501.5 Procedure I 85C 96hrs
Low Temperature MIL-STD 502.5 Procedure I -25C 96hrs

among other things (theres also a Casio smartphone called the commando which has the same test results).

Panasonic's stuff (Toughbooks) is also designed to deal with high temperatures: http://www.panasonic.com/business/toughbook/why-heat-resistant-laptops.asp (140 F operating, 160 F non-operating)

So on, so forth - you can find versions fo a lot of devices (for a price premium) designed to work or be left in rather high operating temperatures

Or something rugged? I have never tried one of these but if I were buying computers for kids I'd try one and see -

https://www.panasonic.com/business/toughbook/laptop-computers.asp

Bose has more problems than just inaccurate sound...

This guy writes a fun rant :-)

http://philintheblank.com/philled/Bose.html

No Highs, No Lows, Must be BOSE!

Love it! (aside from the bizarre and unncessary political cracks about President Clinton and President Kennedy). I've seen the commercials... I think... I can barely remember, don't remember Herbie Hancock in them, and I don't see a problem with someone lying to promote some product (anymore... I am used to it, this is America ffs)... and I think I have seen someone that had 901's, but I never heard them nor was aware that there was an entire theory behind them, had no idea they were anything more than regular speakers of Bose's design. I have never actually purchased speakers for myself! But I when I do, I'll definately take a listen to his suggestion as par for the course, the Cambridge SoundWorks Model Twelve, if I can find them, but I think I can do better than a Panasonic SLSX469V that he recommends. If someone so passionate about fidelity sound is recommending a $500 system, I just can't ignore it. There's nothing wrong with purchasing used speaker systems, IMO, the more they are used (but not abused) the better they sound.

The panasonic toughpad with ics android http://www.panasonic.com/business/toughpad/us/best-android-rugged-tablet-overview.asp

I'm fairly sure that fridges rated A+++ use variable speed compressors in order to achieve sufficient efficiency for that rating. Panasonic makes some.

Horribly inaccurate. The tablets in the "before" section are rugged / industrial. The ones in the "after" are consumer. The toughbook tablet shown looks just like it did before,

http://www.panasonic.com/business/toughbook/ultra-mobile-rugged-toughbook-h1-field-tablet-pc.asp

This Armor tablet is typical.

http://www.drsarmor.com/x10gx.php

Rated to 20k ft altitude, IP67 for water and particulate matter, MIL-SPEC 810 etc.

All the rugged tabs have resistive touchscreens and come w/a stylus because you can't really use capacitive with gloves etc. They are all bulky and all / most run windows and some run linux.

Typical pro apple FUD.

I have seen them used in a Military Aviation Environment both on Aircraft and on the Ground (in the mud). One word: Awesome!

Try buying a video camera that doesn't use either x264 or mpeg2 video codecs.

Something like this cheap one, but you're right that Panasonic is moving to avc, and obviously Sony use xdcam

From my research, tis at LEAST 50%, sometime double. It's probably more then a refrigerator. 400W TV,

I think your research is dated. Here's a current model plasma 1080p HDTV rated at 298W.

They use tricks to try and hide burn in. Move the image, dim the other pixels, and so on. Both these just delay the effect.

Wrong. Moving the image can prevent the burn in. That is the whole point of it. If the technology was worthless why would they even bother making it? Granted, if you're playing tetris marathons every day for months on end, you'll likely burn in (or out) pretty much any display. I can show you a pile of burned in CRT sets at my work...

I would rather have a TV that doesn't have burn in issues at all

So you're saying the choice is dead pixels (LCD) or burn in issues (CRT). OK, I'll stick with the plasma, thank you for reinforcing what I already knew. I strongly suggest you pick up where you left off with your "research" before you go around trashing a technology that you are inadequately informed on.

They still have a horrid reflection/glare problem.

If you're using glass from the 1990s, sure. Which is probably where you got most of your information from.

...you just need a magnifying glass or good nearsightedness to read them.

Well, yeah, as long as you use the larger sizes. :-)
When you get down to the 0402, 0201, or 01005 sizes a microscope comes in handy.
http://www.panasonic.com/industrial/components/pdf/AOA0000CE1.pdf
Chip dimensions are shown on page 2.

I suspect you will find what you need somewhere in the Panasonic Tuffbook line of products. The market to industrial, field maintenance (the people who drive up mountains in their trucks to get to microwave towers and things like that), even the military. Then aren't always the latest technology because the are more focused on dependability and survivability.

Hey I've never experienced such harsh conditions like the ones described but first thing that came to mind while reading your question was the panasonic toughbook series. I've heared and seen some pretty amazing things being done to those toughbooks and they stood tall... It's surely best to do some research but i would surely take those toughbooks in consideration... As with most things it's a matter of choice, you could go for an easy and affordable to replace solution (netbook,...) but since rebuilding backups and stuff every 12 months would like to be avoided, going with a rugged notebook would be worth the thought... http://www.panasonic.com/business/toughbook/toughbook-products.asp

We used to believe that the ToughBooks were the end all be all of ruggedized computers; that is until the day someone actually managed to break one!

If you read the warranty statement from Panasonic you will see the following under Section 3 - Limited Warranty Exclusions

"Failures which result from alteration, accident, misuse, introduction of liquid or other foreign matter into the unit, abuse, neglect, installation, maladjustment of consumer controls, improper maintenance or modification, use not in accordance with product use instructions"

That means that if your coffee somehow spills on the laptop and fries the motherboard Panasonic will not repair it under warranty!

On the other hand if you purchase a Dell or an HP ruggedized notebook with the accidental damage protection the notebook will be repaired with no questions asked.

Considering the cost of the Panasonic ToughBooks, I would take a Dell XFR + CompleteCare any day!

Besides, regardless of what notebook you own, if you roll over it with your vehicle (by accident) and it happens to break, would you not rather be covered?

Panasonic still makes the Toughbook line, but ToughOnline.com seems to price them at $2,000 or more. For that price, one could buy a standard Acer Aspire one and have room to replace several broken units.

Link?

Your wish is my command. Panasonic Phone W/Bluetooth to Cell linking I have one sitting on my desk right now. It also has a cool ring tone recording ability. You can use a Bluetooth headset with it etc.

I don't know where the OP has been shopping around, but Panasonic makes a Bluetooth based DECT home phone system. Just place the cell phone next to the main unit. And all incoming/outgoing calls go through the handsets. And you can add more handsets for each room of the house. Last time I checked, Fry's Electronics (brick and mortar stores) were selling these for around USD$75 for a starter kit.

I thought about these issues and ended up just buying a Panasonic bluetooth capable home phone: http://www.panasonic.com/consumer_electronics/telephones_central/bluetooth_phones/default.asp
I paid about 100 USD.
When the cell phone is in range the base acts just like a headset but relay's the call to any of the three cordless phone handsets around the house. My wife has even grown accustomed to it but there are a couple drawbacks. Weak bluetooth signal drains the battery, fast. No voicemail alert.
I west so far as to port my land number to wireless and just leave the extra cell phone plugged in the charger near the base-station. I can't even see the cell or the base-station, just have the threee handset strategically placed around the house.

Here's one that's close. It costs ~$1800, and can withstand some pretty harsh conditions like these

But, would you like to pay $5 a AA battery? That's what the result would be. As much as we hate pollution and forced Chinese labor, we also hate high prices even more. Also, what would you do with Mexicans and Canadians smuggling batteries across the border. That's what will happen, like it or not.

Exactly, I mean a factory that employs 50 people and makes millions of batteries per year would experience significant savings if they could pay Chinese wages.

Wait a minute: Union wages x 50 employes / millions of units = very very small labor premium per unit. Turns out maybe battery manufacturing is probably dominated by the material costs, which aren't really any cheaper in China after all. All in all, it will probably add a few cents to the cost of "Made in USA" batteries.

But I'm just /. spewing right? Anyone can pull numbers out of their ass!! If only there was some American AA battery factory out there so we could see the reality. Lucky us:

"All Panasonic Alkaline batteries are made in the U.S.A. at our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Columbus, Georgia."

Of course, those are "Panasonic Industrial Alkalines" those are gonna cost you a fortune:
Panasonic Industrial AA Batteries 24/carton - $9.60
Works out to $0.40 per battery. I think we'll cope.

I accept your apology.

Cites:

Made in USA claim:
http://www.panasonic.com/industrial/battery/oem/chem/alk/
Panasonic Industrial AA's for sale:
http://www.jirehsupplies.com/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=PI-AA

You may be interested in the Panasonic Toughbook CF-U1 then. Its smaller, has a built in keyboard and can be spec'ed with the same optional hardware. I had one for evaluation at work and it was pretty slick.

http://www.panasonic.com/business/Toughbook/ultra-mobile-rugged-toughbook-u1-umpc.asp

Panasonic makes a line of notebooks designed for light abuse: tough book
or nasty treatement.

Panasonic makes a line of notebooks designed for light abuse: tough book
or nasty treatement.

If your child is anything like my nephew (not quite 2 year old), then I would have to recommend this, it would be the only electronic device that would last more than 5 minutes with him.

These are the guys who still use 10 year old computers because those are hardened and tested to military standards.

I tried to verify that claim via Google and the best thing I could find was the exact opposite of that statement:

Panasonic Computer Solution Companyâ(TM)s hardware providers help develop cutting-edge technology to address rapidly growing needs, including data storage, power backup, in-vehicle mounting, mobile display, deployable kits and rugged add-ons.

It's just a marketing page for sure... But where exactly do you suppose they use 10 year old tech other than in custom built kit for physical systems.

http://www.panasonic.com/business/toughbook/products.asp

A lot less preinstalled crapware. I'm ppretty sure they all have matte screens. Many of the extra rugged models are explicitly intended for outdoors use, rather than viewing DVDs (which seem to be the main motivation for glossy screens).