TechPlay Experience

Pictured below is a detailed unboxing of the Panasonic CF-F8 Toughbook.

The Box and inside

The Box itself is simple and plain with no colour images, remaining functional rather than aesthetic, stating not much more then the Brand, Model & serial numbers.
The box is aimed at Corporate users, I would suspect that a consumer model packaging would be more better presented and of a better build quality.

Picture 1 above shows the Front of the box

Picture 2 shows the top of the box with useful carrying handle

Picture 3 above shows the front and side of the box.

Picture 4 above shows the well packaged and snug contents of the box

Picture 5 above shows the Laptop and accessory’s box once removed from the main packaging.

The Contents.
The following pictures show what comes in the Box

Picture 6 above shows the Panasonic CF-F8 Toughbook by itself

Picture 7 above shows the F8 with the case open.

Picture 8 above shows the Toughbook, Cables, the battery and the 3 included cd’s.

Picture 9 above shows the included manuals and 3 disks. The disks are the Windows Xp recovery disk, the Windows Vista recovery Disk & the 3G Modem setup disk.

Picture 10 above shows the F8 with the unpackaged power supply

Fitting the Battery

Picture 11 above shows the underside of the F8 without a battery fitted.

Picture 12 above shows a close up of the battery

Picture 13 above shows the F8 next to the battery – ready for fitting.

Picture 14 shows the F8 with fitted battery.

The Panasonic CF-F8′s Case and ports.

Picture 15 above shows the F8 ready to go.

Picture 16 above shows the F8 with it’s carrying handle extended.

Picture 17 above showing the front left of the case with (from left to right) the Power switch, the Wireless on\off switch, the 2 LEDs are to show when ECO mode is active and the battery indicator.

Picture 18 above shows the front right of the case, with the DVD power\eject switch.

Picture 19 above shows the right hand side of the F8 , with (from left to right) 3 USB ports, the VGA port, the Ethernet port and MODEM port.

Picture 20 above shows the rear of the F8.

Picture 21 above shows the Left hand side of the F8, showing (from left to right) the Power socket, the port replicator port, the heat expulsion grate, 2 audio ports, SD memory card reader, and PCMCIA socket.

The F8 has plenty of expansion potential.

Picture 22 above shows the front of the top of the opened F8.
Picture 23 shows the left hand side of the top of the powered up F8, showing the lit Power Switch\LED and the battery indicator.

Picture 24 above shows the touch pad and mouse buttons of the F8

The DVD drive on the Panasonic Cf-F8

Picture 25 above shows the closed DVD drive which is located on the right hand side of the case.

Picture 26 above shows the open DVD drive on the F8.

Picture 26 above shows the open DVD drive with a loaded disk.