[itdiscuss] Dell Toughbook experiences?

[Dan Barber]

I don't know, but everything I have read says that the Panasonic Toughbooks are the way to go...

Dan Barber
Network Administrator
Kirk of the Hills, PCA
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From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org [discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Jason Powell [jpowell at gccwired.com]
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 1:28 PM
To: IT Discussion Forum
Subject: [itdiscuss] Dell Toughbook experiences?

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