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Panasonic Toughbook W4 Notebook (1.2GHz Pentium M, 512MB DDR2, 40GB, DVD/CD-RW, Windows XP Pro, 12.1" TFT)

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Pros
Good port layout; nice screen
Cons
Cramped keyboard

Performance: Good: 78
Features: Fair: 62
Design: Good: 77

Find out how these scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Performance
ACD Systems ACDSee	978
Adobe Photoshop	513
Adobe Premiere	700
Ahead Nero	1061
Battery Life (Office Applications)	5:54
Discreet 3ds Max DirectX	559
Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL	1001
Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	3.2
Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	3.63
Microsoft Office XP	631
Mozilla	561
Musicmatch Jukebox	859
Number of Included Batteries	1
Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 1024 by 768, 16-Bit	33.1
Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	32.9
Roxio VideoWave	616
Unreal Tournament, 1024 by 768, 16-Bit	54.45
Unreal Tournament, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	39.13
Windows Media Encoder	675
WinZip	624
World Bench 5 Score	63
World Bench 5 Word Score	Fair

WorldBench Tests
Multitasking	1079

What You Should Know about the Toughbook W4 Notebook (1.2GHz Pentium M, 512MB DDR2, 40GB, DVD/CD-RW, Windows XP Pro, 12.1" TFT)

Not Much RAM for Multitasking

The more RAM your laptop has, the faster programs will run and the greater number of windows you can work in at one time. If your needs are simple and you rarely do more than two things at once on your PC, the relatively modest amount of memory that comes installed in inexpensive laptops will be enough. Today the standard amount of RAM shipped in most PCs is 2GB. If you like to multitask--say, you want to launch a search for a file and start backing up data to a disc while you watch a news video--you need more memory.