[itdiscuss] Dell Toughbook experiences?

[Jason Powell]

Anyone have experience with Dell's ruggedized laptops?  Our missions
dude is wanting to purchase a rugged notebook for 09 ... he is HARD on
equipment with the overseas environments he uses his laptop in.  He's
the only person I know that could truly use the ruggedized features

http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/latit_xfr_d630?
c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd

 

We're going to try and see if Dell (or other laptop vendor) will partner
with us for some PR stuff showcasing a rugged laptop.

 

Jason

 

From: Jack Magruder 

Subject: RE: Dell Toughbook proposal...

 

Hi there!  I'm the "Missions Guy" at Granger, and have been through 3
laptops in the last 3 years due to the conditions of our everyday work
both locally and beyond.  I thrashed a Lenovo that was supposed to be
"tough", but have honestly just had better luck with the Dells and it's
not really their fault that our conditions tend to be extreme (105
degree heat, 98% humidity, sand, livestock, construction equipment,
being knocked and thrown around in every possible way as we seek to go
where... seriously... quite often no outside - much less American- has
gone or goes much).  We're just freakin' hard on hardware, and I was
lamenting this fact when Jason told me about your Toughbook.  It looks
like it would do the trick, and I'd love to let other people know about
it if it does (we are, after all, not the only Missions people who do
the bulk of our overseas work in places so remote and extreme that
mostly only indigenous people and military units operate there - and
lots of other churches and NGO's look to us to "set the curve" for what
and how things should be done).  

 

In 6 countries in 3 months 

*         Ethiopia

*         Egypt

*         Sudan

*         Cambodia

*         India (South)

*         China (North)

An additional 3 spots sometime in '09/'10

*         Myanmar (Burma)

*         North India

*         Central China

 

 

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