Panasonic Toughbook CF-F8
$1,399 plus $99 a month for a 36-month SingTel contract,
available at mc2, PC-Connect and Newstead

GET ON the Internet at speeds of up to 7.2Mbps without an external modem with this tough guy.

Despite its out-of-the-box convenience, this Toughbook lasts up to six hours on a standard battery.

It can also take spills and is drop-resistant, promising to survive a 76cm fall.

The 1.67kg notebook packs a 14.1-inch WXGA for easy viewing of your complex spreadsheets on the LCD screen and a DVD drive.

Its broadband deal with SingTel gives you 50GB of free data - that is 100,000 e-mail messages and 5,000 hours of surfing according to Panasonic.

(The price without the offer is $3,699.)