The Toughbook comes standard with a Pentium MMX-266 processor, 512KB of L2 cache, a 4GB hard drive, and 32MB of RAM.

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The Brahma15 is a 21, 000 DMIP Quad-core ARMv7-A instruction set compatible multiprocessor. 32KB instruction and 32KB data caches per processor are backed by a shared 2MB L2 cache and feed the multi-issue, out-of-order superscalar 15-stage plus write back pipeline of the Brahma15.

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Processor options include an AMD Dual-Core A4-3400 Accelerated Processor (2.7GHz, 1MB Total L2 Cache).

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