How Do Rugged Laptops Work?

How do ultra-tough, military-spec laptops survive the elements?



Intro Theme: Showdown by F.O.O.L from Monstercat - Best of 2016

[Eternal-pjzh]

You can run Crysis while running in a crisis!

[WiseWik]

Why the fuck did I have to watch a 6 minute military laptop advert for my TunnelBear video?

[axinteleonardvictor]

Do a rugged laptop review and teardown it would be super interesting

[sergarlantyrell]

"...even integrate small heaters"...
So they're running a GTX 480 then?

[JeffDeWitt]

A while back Panasonic had a destroyed Toughbook on display in the lobby of their US headquarters. A police officer had it in his cruiser and some lowlife shot at him, fortunately the bullet hit the lid of the Toughbook, stopping it from hitting the officer. The Toughbook was destroyed but it likely saved the officers life. THAT'S a tough notebook!

[danhyde]

When you said the president ordering a military strike.
I just imagined trump heading over to amazon and adding “nuke North Korea” to his shopping cart

[goodinsrt]

After spending two enlistments in the military, I can ensure you that "military grade" is usually cheap shit.

[canadianbacon]

"Who else needs an ice proof laptop?"



Canadians XD

[tvenningmedia]

During my 19 years as a PC user (I started using the PC when I was 4), I have never spilled anything on it. Hooray!

[johnsquarez]

*How do they work?*
You drop them and they don't break.

[hiddendevs]

*Listens to first thirty seconds.* *Moves water bottle away.*

[andreip]

Linus: “These laptops can survive WAY more than a can of soda!”

Me: “Two cans of soda?:

[ChuckyD]

I've been working with the Getac Tablets in the USAF. A lot of the design behind it is pretty brilliant like having two removable batteries inside so they can be swapped individually without shutting down. The covers also have 2 locking mechanism on them so they do not fall off accidentally if dropped. the i/o ports also have little plastic doors with rubber seals and locks on them. The only thing I do not like is how they are trying to replace everything we do with these tablets and synchronising all of the software together. Keeping everything up to date is a real hassle and if one part goes the whole thing often goes to shit and we just revert back to the old way.

[TarziKV]

Still using my old T61 from Lenovo. Very durable, magnesium frame, spill proof. Swapped to SSD and relocated HDD into the Optical Drive slot (caddy from ebay). Added some RAM and i'ts usable as NAS, working with office docs and even creating music in Ableton :)

[genericyoutubename-nxxp]

I use ruggedized laptops for my work in the Air Force. The ones we use are called Technical Orders, or T.O.s for short. The ones i use are for maintaining aircraft. Think of it as a manual with hundreds of manuals inside. They're old so they're slow af but yeah they're pretty strong. We had a Little Giant latter fall on one and put a hole in the back of the screen and it still works, we just put speed tape on it (aluminum tape) and it was good as new

[ratchetfreak]

They are also nice for contractors taking their work to the jobsite...

[txgamer]

When I was working at Dell's custom server rack solution center, we built multiple server systems for the military in these awesome special server racks. They were like 10U racks, mounted on rubber bumpers on each side which acted like shock absorbers during transport, which were then connected to the rugged plastic exterior case. Both front and back doors had hermetic seals on them to make them waterproof during transport/storage.

[vali]

To anyone thats curious, the US Army has loads of those Panasonic Toughbooks and they see virtually no use. 99% of them are ancient and worn but they also feature some lackluster hardware. Brand new, they were probably decent but after the first year, they slow to a crawl and no one wants to use them unless they're forced to :s

[itsyaboi]

Please do a video about the history of Thinkpads! /g/ will thank you!

[SilverScarletSpider]

I just wish rugged laptops weren’t so expensive.