~Toughbooktalk~

The title of this thread and the forum in which it is posted ... are misleading



scnr, looking forward to reading your review

Ok, let me get that straight. [...]I'm a 30 year old mechanic, [...] have worked my self into a little comfy spot where i will probably be the rest of my life. But i have to face it. I have a bad back that i was told 6years ago i will be lucky if i can make it to 40 and not have some disks fused.[.....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_E ... nvironment
any empty fat32 drive will do I prefer DHL over UPS



EDIT: I cannot believe I only discovered that boing smiley yesterday. its awesome

:zzz: if PXE is an accepted solution otherwise you might need to up the odds to a cf20/33 and provide osx+windows licenses*+isos ... and we might have a deal :salute: * yeah, I am aware of that "you may only run osx on apple hw" clause in the eula, but willing to argue it in most European ...

Yeah well, in my opinion, they shouldn't try to please everyone with the same models. There will always be soldiers, firemen, construction workers, law enforcement, first responders and other professionals who need their equipment to "just work" and don't care about it being pretty. Then ...

thanks for the info, rob on a related note: :wtf: EDIT: Rob is way to fast, so this second part was added after his reply: so basically.... they turned toughbooks into ... thinkpads with some rubber bumpers and gorilla glass? well, at least they got rid of the cf31 fans... one step forward, turn 90°...

i realize that the disk/ssd is no longer hotswapable, which used to be one of the marketing bullet points for shiftwork facilities.
does anyone know if the disk/ssd is at least user-upgradeable?

Hi, Intel just released patches for a backdoor that basically affects about all[1] their CPUs since 2010. Make sure you have AMT disabled in BIOS/UEFI ... or quickly grab the patch How bad is this That depends. Unless you've explicitly enabled AMT at any point, you're probably fine. The drivers that...

please elaborate on the inline switch.
just some circuit breaker switch you solder into the cable? or something fancy/automatic?

congrats on your new gear. how many hours does it have? 1st question: 32bit os cannot address memory above 3...4gb, maybe 6 when using some PAE kludges 2nd question: that is where your friendly field technican configures the *cough* toughkit *cough* ideas for mk1: - car dock for use as navigation sy...