6 Top Rugged Laptops

If you have read the article “111 useful Laptop tips”, you can easily notice that looking after your laptop is not so easy. Many of those tips referred to protecting your laptop from vibration, dropping, hitting, spilling, dust and changeable temperature or protecting form extreme coldness or heat. Rugged notebooks have solved these concerns.

Here are four things you should know about rugged laptops.

1. Rugged Notebooks can be used in most rough environments because their chassis and cases are 20 times stronger than non-rugged notebooks whose cases are usually made by ABS Plastic.

2. They have different categories of Ultra-portable and Desktop-replacement.

3. They are often heavy. Mainly, construction workers, emergency service workers, and military personnel are interested about this kind of laptop.

4. You can use semi-rugged notebooks like Toughbook-74 but it is natural they are not as durable as rugged notebooks.

Panasonic ToughBook CF-29

This total rugged notebook is big and very heavy and durable and it is one of the best ruggedized laptops. Cnet editors have given 7.1 score, that means it is enough good but it has some problems that users must be aware of. This laptop has 13.3" light and tough screen but with resolution of 1024 x 768 XGA and it weighs 7.9 lbs. One of the advantages of this laptop is its battery life which lasts for 7 hours. Good thing about Panasonic‘s laptop is that this company uses only its own batteries which are safe. Other advantages are waterproof keyboard, shock-mount hardware and they are safe against dropping. It has 3 years warranty.

Unfortunately, this laptop has only one USB 2.0 port without FireWire and it is expensive for average users. Also, it has limitation for expanding its RAM. It comes with Intel 1.60 GHz Pentium M and 256 MB DDR2 SDRAM-266 MHz RAM which can be expanded to 1280 MB. It has 60GB hard disk.