From: MV (MV@dc9.tzo.com)
Date: Sun Aug 14 2005 - 09:24:32 PDT
I work with and buy and sell laptops for industrial customers. If you
are looking for an indestructable laptop, you can buy them but you will
pay for them. For a while many of my customers were using Toughbooks,
etc, but they really don't make sense unless you "have" to have a tough
notebook and carry it in your backpack while being shot at etc.
Most of my customers have gone to using Dell Latitudes and then they try
to avoid serious knocks or they buy the 3 year warranty and simply have
them repaired when broken. You can buy a couple Latitudes for what a
hardened notebook costs. It just doesn't make sense unless you life
depends on it, or you have very deep pockets.
My laptops have been carried up water tower ladders, setup next to coal
fired boilers, etc. If you keep them inside a foam padded case when not
in use, they can withstand a 5 foot fall, perhaps more.
Dave
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Chris Brunner wrote:
> I was looking into buying a laptop to mount in my CUCV, but having done
> this before in other cars remembered all the problems I had with
> destroying the laptop (vibration, coffee, all the others). Knowing the
> makeup of the list, I figured someone may have some helpful pointers as
> to where to look to find a nearly indestructible laptop to mount in my
> truck to run the GPS and accounting packages I need for work.
>
> Chris
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