Midmarket: Toshiba Tecra Tough Laptops Target Road Warriors, Small Businesses

 
 
By Nathan Eddy  |  Posted 2012-07-15 Email Print this article Print
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
For today's field workers and road warriors, having the right equipment is essential. Not only do they need something portable, compact and able to connect to the Web, they need hardware that can take a few knocks. Smartphone manufacturers are starting to take this more seriously, with Kevlar integration and Corning Gorilla Glass screens, but laptop makers have been reinforcing and toughening up their products for decades. The latest player to enter this market is Toshiba with the Tecra R940 and Tecra R950 laptops, which are built using a fiberglass-reinforced casing built around a honeycomb rib structure—all packed into a frame that is only an inch thick and weighs just 5.3 pounds. Aside from the reinforced casing and rib structure, the notebooks, which come in a 14- and 15.6-inch screen model, also offer a spill-resistant keyboard, hard-drive impact sensor and a shock-absorbing design. That's one tough notebook.
 
 
 
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For increased durability and strength without adding excess weight, the new Tecra laptops are built using a unique fiberglass reinforced casing with a Honeycomb Rib structure.
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Nathan Eddy is Associate Editor, Midmarket, at eWEEK.com. Before joining eWEEK.com, Nate was a writer with ChannelWeb and he served as an editor at FierceMarkets. He is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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