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Panasonic ToughBook Testing Facility Tour

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday February 7, 2007 @07:48AM from the bruised-but-not-beaten dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ToughBooks are considered by some to be the most resilient of all notebooks. So how does Panasonic ensure that their line of indestructible portables are just that? In a recent tour of the Kobe plant in Japan it was discovered that 1000's of ToughBooks are destroyed each year in pursuit of the most rugged systems. Soaking, electric shock, heating and electromagnetic radiation are among the many methods of torture used."

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Matsushita Versus Sony by Anonymous Coward · 2007-02-07 08:02 · Score: 5, Interesting

Panasonic is just one brand in the consumer-electronics empire of Matsushita. For decades, Panasonic quality was considered inferior to Sony quality, but at the moment, Panasonic quality is nearly identical to Sony quality. Moreover, Sony products cost 30% more than Panasonic products.
Why would anyone want to pay 30% more for an equivalent product?
Why does Sony charge so much money even though nearly 100% of its products is now assembled in low-wage China? Panasonic still tries to build its products in high-wage Japan.