Panasonic Toughbook H1 Field: The Workin’ Man’s Tablet

The iPad may be great for those trendy yupster types sipping their soy lattes while pulling Wi Fi in the latest faux-Euro cafe on the block, but do you really want to carry your shiny, skinny iPad stuffed with photos of kittens and ponies into the firehouse or labor union local?

Before you go down that lonely road, put on some pants and, yes, some bright yellow work gloves, and grab a hold of a Panasonic Toughbook H1 Field. This is clearly a tablet designed to get work done where work gets done. To that effect, the H1 features a 10.4-inch display, 1.86 GHz Atom processor, 2 GB of RAM, 64GB SSD,  Wi Fi, hot-swappable twin batteries and Bluetooth. It comes with your choice of Windows 7 or Windows XP–real men don’t upgrade to the next latest thing–and offers six hours of battery life.

We probably don’t need to tell you it’s tough, but it’s certified for up to six-foot drops onto hard ground.  It’ll hit the market in March for a not-so-attractive sticker of $3400. [Obsessable via CrunchGear]