Panasonic is mostly know for their Audio/Video equipment, but they carry a full range of PC’s in Japan. The offering consists of 4 models: the R, T, W and Y. The Panasonic PC’s are the only Japanese computers that are completely designed and assembled in Japan. As opposed to the competition, they’re not assembled in China and designed in Taiwan, but all the work is done in Japanese, and this is something they’re pretty proud of at Panasonic.

We’ll talk about the Panasonic R3 today, the ultraportable model of the family. At the moment of writing this article, the R3 is being replaced by the R4, that is completely identical except for the SONOMA processor (the new generation Centrino CPU) and the DDR2 memory on the R4. Because of it’s i855 chipset and the age of its design, the R3 could not be named SONOMA anymore.

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