Forbes took the Panasonic ToughBook through a series of insane tests (they call it the "Forbes Test" and it involved the laptop being walked-on by an elephant and shot at). The results are pretty amazing: http://video.forbes.com/fvn/tech/tiger-versus-laptop (Posterous doesn't seem to allow the embedded view to work)
Original story at http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/23/toughbook-tiger-elephant-technology-personal-test.html