H247 Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 Hello all, i have a Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 running Ubuntu 9.10... I was wondering if anyone else is using this model laptop and if yes have u upgraded and hardware parts? (e.g mother-board, processor) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueSpear Posted January 25, 2010 Share Posted January 25, 2010 I have a couple dozen of them at work (a police department). We've been getting ToughBook's for about 10 years now. I've swapped out SO-DIMMs and hard disks that have gone bad. The other guy in my office is a little better than me with actual finger work and has swapped out touchpads, keyboards, and screens over and over again. They're great units and worth their weight in gold. If there seems to be any weakness with them, it seems to be the touhpads. Also, the Bluetooth modules that Panasonic uses are made by Toshiba In Linux this generally means you're going to need to use the omnibook module. In Arch this is no problem - just get it from AUR. In Ubuntu I found it to be a bit more involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H247 Posted January 25, 2010 Author Share Posted January 25, 2010 My model don't have bluetooth (wish it did) and everything works great without any problems (except touch-screen calibration in Ubuntu). I was just wondering if i could upgrade the processor to a dual-core or higher and if not is there an upgraded motherboard for this model which support faster processors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metatron Posted January 25, 2010 Share Posted January 25, 2010 My model don't have bluetooth (wish it did) and everything works great without any problems (except touch-screen calibration in Ubuntu). I was just wondering if i could upgrade the processor to a dual-core or higher and if not is there an upgraded motherboard for this model which support faster processors Its should be thought of the same as any other laptop, in the sense that the only things that are user upgradable is the memory, wireless card and hard drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H247 Posted January 25, 2010 Author Share Posted January 25, 2010 guess ill keep digging then cause i have a feeling somebody somewhere have upgraded this great model laptop to beyond its manufacture limits... thanks for the help though :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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