#toughbook — Public Fediverse posts
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Panasonic launches TOUGHBOOK 56 rugged laptop
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/04/panasonic-toughbook-56/
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Panasonic Toughbook 56: Hands on with the latest rugged laptop
https://bookofadamz.com/panasonic-toughbook-56-hands-on/ -
The new keyboard turned up. It spent a holiday at Kenmore, then Australia Post tried to deliver it on the very day that neither of us is home… so my father picked it up from the post office this morning.
It took a bit of coaxing to get that top cover up and to get the adhesive to let go, but once I did that, it was plain sailing. This keyboard has a different feel to the old one, but I'm getting used to it already.
The old keyboard had keycaps that were popping up intermittently, especially right-shift and Enter. Very annoying. The left-hand keys are also well and truly polished after over a decade of regular use.
There was a tonne of crud in there too… including some grey fur… I wonder where that came from?
Anyway, below are the before and after photos. Well worth doing… and yes, a laptop that had a non-backlit keyboard can take a backlit one just fine … there's three sockets for the keyboard. When you plug the new one in: do the socket closest to the touch pad first, then connect the backlight socket (right-hand side), then the final socket.
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Back in November 2013, I bought myself a new laptop to celebrate that I was in full-time employment for the first time in my life.
The laptop was a Panasonic Toughbook CF-53 Mk2. I still have it, typing on it now in fact. Its had a few upgrades, but the keyboard is still the original.
A couple of the scissor switch mechanisms are starting to fail now, with a few keys becoming unresponsive or the key caps popping up. Most annoyingly, right-shift and enter. So it's new keyboard time.
I've ordered one of these, it's a backlit chiclet keyboard. Mine's not backlit, and not a chiclet, but it says its for CF-53 so hopefully will fit. $50 isn't a lot to spend anyway, so worth a gamble.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/276625672231
Replacement doesn't look hard from the iFixit article I found, so we'll see.
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Ich bin vorerst begeistert von #emmabuntus #emmabuntüs #Debian
das #toughbook ist gefühlt älter als Steinkohle, #i686 #32bit.
Das angedachte #puppylinux wollte nicht (und einige andere 32bit- #distribution en ebenso), dafür hab ich #emmabuntus gefunden...Schaut mal rein!
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Ich bin vorerst begeistert von #emmabuntus #emmabuntüs #Debian
das #toughbook ist gefühlt älter als Steinkohle, #i686 #32bit.
Das angedachte #puppylinux wollte nicht (und einige andere 32bit- #distribution en ebenso), dafür hab ich #emmabuntus gefunden...Schaut mal rein!
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Have you ever want to learn how to swap the system board on a #Panasonic #ToughPad #FZM1 but were too afraid to ask?
Here’s my guide, just for you!
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First rule of #toughbook club. No trainers in the members bar! #lasers #Lasershows
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I bought a little stick of knobs! 🤣 I do a lot of simple scenic lasers and sky beams, I don't want a full midi controller, just non mouse control of zoom, brightness and animation speed. These little Arduino based things are perfect and can Velcro on to the side of my #toughbook ❤️
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@JoshMurray @ifixcoinops @santiago
Nice!
How do you like the #ToughPad ?
I've been using Panasonic #Toughbook models since model CF-29, and currently run Ubuntu on a CF-30 and CF-31. (Rugged hardware should run rugged software.)