The Panasonic Toughbook H1 is a fully-rugged mobile clinical assistant (MCA) for medical professionals. Its a 10.4-inch touchscreen tablet powered by low power Intel Atom processor. According to Panasonic, the new Toughbook H1 redefines performance and functionality for the MCA category with six hour battery life, dual hot–swappable batteries, standard daylight viewable screen and integrated Gobi technology in a sealed and easily-sanitized package. Other cool features include integrated RFID reader, 2.0 megapixel auto-focus camera with dual LED lights, a barcode reader, contactless smart card reader and fingerprint reader.

Specifications:

• Genuine Windows Vista Business with Service Pack 1 (with Windows XP Tablet downgrade option)


• Intel Atom processor (1.86GHz) Z540 with 533MHz FSB, 512KB L2 cache


• 1GB standard RAM configuration


• 80 GB 1.8-inch shock mounted hard drive


• 10.4" XGA sunlight viewable 500 NIT Dual Touch LCD screen (1024 x 768 resolution)


• Anti-reflective screen treatment


• Integrated 2.0 megapixel auto-focus camera with dual LED lights


• Fingerprint scanner


• Contactless smartcard reader


• RFID reader


• Fully rugged


• MIL-STD-810F and IP54 compliant


• 3 foot drop approved


• Magnesium alloy chassis


• Sealed all-weather design


• Rain-, spill-, dust- and vibration-resistant


• Intel WiFi Link 5100 802.11a/b/g/draft-n


• Bluetooth v2.0 + EDR


• Integrated docking connector


• Optional integrated WWAN / Gobi-enabled mobile broadband (EV-DO and HSPA)


• Global position system (GPS) receiver


• 2D barcode reader (also reads 1D barcodes)


• 6 hour battery life


• Hot-swappable batteries


• 3.4 lbs (with batteries)

The Panasonic Toughbook H1 will be available worldwide in January of 2009. In the United States, the base H1 model is expected to be available at an estimated street price of $2,999.