<story><title>Panasonic Toughbook 40</title><url>https://connect.na.panasonic.com/toughbook/rugged-computers/toughbook-40</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IAmGraydon</author><text>How could a monochrome screen work for a student? They typically have to look at assignments which often include color-coded graphs, data legends, etc.</text></item><item><author>pontifk8r</author><text>After my daughter went through two laptops in high school (1st: &amp;quot;I closed a pen in it and broke the hinge&amp;quot; 2nd: &amp;quot;Dad! Someone ELSE knocked it off my desk&amp;quot;) I found an ex-state-police toughbook, it even had a carrying handle. Plasma monochrome screen. Slow. But it ran all of the applications necessary for school.&lt;p&gt;Turns out it had a cool factor all it&amp;#x27;s own, and she really liked that laptop. She figured out she could neglect and abuse it. I even left the &amp;quot;property of &amp;quot; stickers from the state police on the thing, which gave it extra... something. It was still working when she gave it back to me before she went to college. I think I sold it for $100.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>refactor_master</author><text>No, only the teacher’s book had colors. The rest of us were looking at the monochrome photocopies ;)</text></comment>
<story><title>Panasonic Toughbook 40</title><url>https://connect.na.panasonic.com/toughbook/rugged-computers/toughbook-40</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IAmGraydon</author><text>How could a monochrome screen work for a student? They typically have to look at assignments which often include color-coded graphs, data legends, etc.</text></item><item><author>pontifk8r</author><text>After my daughter went through two laptops in high school (1st: &amp;quot;I closed a pen in it and broke the hinge&amp;quot; 2nd: &amp;quot;Dad! Someone ELSE knocked it off my desk&amp;quot;) I found an ex-state-police toughbook, it even had a carrying handle. Plasma monochrome screen. Slow. But it ran all of the applications necessary for school.&lt;p&gt;Turns out it had a cool factor all it&amp;#x27;s own, and she really liked that laptop. She figured out she could neglect and abuse it. I even left the &amp;quot;property of &amp;quot; stickers from the state police on the thing, which gave it extra... something. It was still working when she gave it back to me before she went to college. I think I sold it for $100.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DiggyJohnson</author><text>Turns out that this isn’t the critical ability required to do well in school. I take your point, I’m sure the monochrome screen would be a challenge sometimes, but literally never the difference between success and failure at the high school level.</text></comment>