{"id":59,"date":"2007-12-24T13:04:36","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T04:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/24\/toughbook-japans-favorite-notebook\/"},"modified":"2007-12-24T13:04:36","modified_gmt":"2007-12-24T04:04:36","slug":"toughbook-japans-favorite-notebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/toughbook-japans-favorite-notebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Toughbook: Japan&#8217;s favorite notebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Q: What is the favorite notebook brand with Japanese developers?<br \/>\nMacBook? maybe.<br \/>\nVaio? no.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panasonic.com\/business\/toughbook\/business-rugged-computers.asp\">Toughbook<\/a>.<br \/>\nToughbook business laptops are marketed with &#8216;Let&#8217;s note&#8217; brand in Japan. This ultra-light notebook has a surprisingly large share amongst Japanese developers. If you are looking for light (940g~1.5kg. 2lbs~3.3lbs), tough (water resistant) and long battery life (&gt;6hours) notebook, it&#8217;s the answer.<br \/>\nWell. Why Toughbook? Japanese people tend to move with public transport. So, heavy notebooks are real pain. I think it&#8217;s a very good choice for every Asian people, especially for women.<br \/>\nProbably they should use another brand name than &#8216;Toughbook&#8217;. They should have read <a href=\"http:\/\/ries.typepad.com\/ries_blog\/2007\/12\/the-good-the-ba.html\">Al Ries<\/a>.<br \/>\nCoincidentally, Asiajin founders are using same made-to-order burgundy-red Toughbooks:)<\/p>\n<h3>See also:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2007\/09\/27\/panasonic-launches-four-new-toughbooks\/\">An Engadget article. <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mylets.jp\/\/common\/color_img\/r\/red.jpg\" height=\"404\" width=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: What is the favorite notebook brand with Japanese developers? MacBook? maybe. Vaio? no. It&#8217;s Toughbook. Toughbook business laptops are marketed with &#8216;Let&#8217;s note&#8217; brand in Japan. This ultra-light notebook has a surprisingly large share amongst Japanese developers. If you are looking for light (940g~1.5kg. 2lbs~3.3lbs), tough (water resistant) and long battery life (&gt;6hours) notebook,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/toughbook-japans-favorite-notebook\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toughbook: Japan&#8217;s favorite notebook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-trend","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}