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Dell Rugged Laptops Not Quite Tough Enough

Posted by timothy on from the one-good-hit dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Trusted Reviews has put the new Dell XFR rugged laptop through the grinder and it hasn't fared as well as expected. Considering that these guys drove a car over a Panasonic Toughbook, they went pretty easy on the Dell, but it still couldn't take the punishment. It looks like Dell still has a way to go to steal the ball from Panasonic when it comes to all terrain computing."

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  1. Hey mods?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    who midded this down?

  2. well... by StripedCow · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    to make it really rugged, they should have installed linux on it...

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  3. Re:In my case, temperature tolerance... by Looce · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    At least we know the unit can't be Kelvin.

  4. Re:In my case, temperature tolerance... by clone53421 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Kelvin is a scale, not a unit.

    The Kelvin scale uses the same unit as the Celsius scale, FWIW, but I don't think he was using that unit.

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  5. Re:In my case, temperature tolerance... by Looce · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But the post also has a 150; which unit is that in? (Rhetorical question, I know it's Farenheit, because in Celsius the user would have boiled away.)

  6. mod 3own by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    people playing can with any sort abysmal sales a8d lead developers sadness And it was fastest-growing GAY consistent with the

  7. Re:General Dynamics by Dog-Cow · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Shame there's no mod option for (-5, Stupid Ignoramus)