They picked the one notebook that probably costs more than all of Apple’s offerings. The Fujitsu Lifebook/Panasonic Toughbook is popular in extreme conditions (mining, police work, construction, etc.). It is not representative of a typical PC notebook.
Ooops, it looks like the current series of Lifebooks are not of the same stuff as the Panasonic Toughbooks. I guess things changed in the last ten years.
Sure, but I imagine that more expensive laptop also has some top-notch heat-pipe design inside, too.
The point was.... it's possible to design one properly. Apple must have missed something.
We use mainly Fujitsu notebooks at the company where I'm SysAdmin, and they really do take a beating, even the mid-range ones are surprisingly bulletproof. The other type of notebook we use a lot of is MacBookPros...