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Dell launches rugged touch-screen laptop
DELL is launching a Latitude E6400 XFR laptop with a touch screen, which the company claims can withstand drops, dust and high-pressure water sprays.
It is designed to the US military specifications because the army find themselves in a lot of water fights and Dell needs the sales.
The Latitude can withstand rain and wind gusts of up 70 miles per hour, and can work in temperatures between -33.88 to 63 degrees Celsius and at an altitude of 15,000 feet. Of course you will not be able to type with frostbite or sunburn in those extremes.
It will ignore drops from four feet when it is not going and 36 inches when it is running.
It is powered by a Core 2 Duo processor and has a six-cell battery and a solid-state storage drive. It will cost US$4,299. µ
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"It is designed to the US military specifications because the army find themselves in a lot of water fights and Dell needs the sales." WOW is water fights something new? Is that the new non-leathal ive heard about? Now we can stop spending billions on weapons... SWEEEET!!!!!
A wind resistance spec? Really? Unless that means the hinge is extra-hard to operate or has a little lock in open position, is that supposed to mean my old laptop's keyboard will fly off? If it's just that it's so darn heavy it won't move, I don't see that being a good thing...
Let's see how much it likes Windows 7.
I wonder why would it need to resist liquid sprays... Oh and is it exploding-battery-proof too?
On some project sites I go to, it occasionally gets down to -35 °C. Damn, so close...