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Panasonic Toughbook CF-F8 - Tough Love

By Aloysius Low & Andy Sim - 17 Nov 2008

Battery Life and Portability Index

Battery Life and Portability Index

Duracell bunny beware! The Toughbook CF-F8 gives the aforesaid bunny a run for its money with its 216 minutes battery life on our DVD test. Without using the optical drive, we speculate it's possible to actually get very close to the rated 6 hours or so and our own "unofficial" test which is simply using the notebook normally impressed us with its lasting power. As you can see, power consumption remains a important factor here as the unit and the lengthy battery life shows us why.

The Panasonic Tougbook CF-F8 is powered by this 10.8V 5800mAH battery.

As for our ever present portability index, well, with a very decent weight of just 1.66kg, we were expecting a decent score based on our own formulas and guess what? The CF-F8's score of 0.712 was surprisingly lower than expected, but this is due to the bulky form factor of the unit, which sacrifices volume for more protection. Rest assured though, the CF-F8 is eminently portable.

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