Rugged Laptop

Crave: Mobile computing can be a haphazard business, and new notebooks from General Dynamics and Panasonic give their owners permission to drop them (from a reasonable distance) as often as they like.
General Dynamics’ GoBook MR-1 claims to be the smallest fully rugged ultramobile PC, and it may very well be. It weighs 2 pounds, and is about the size of a small jewelry box. It was made to have all the same features and capabilities of the full-size GoBook XR-1 but in a more compact form factor. That means four wireless connections: Wireless LAN, Bluetooth, GPS, and Wireless Wide Area Network. It’s built on Intel’s new Santa Rosa platform.
All of General Dynamics’ touchscreen notebooks, which are cold- and heat-resistant, now come with its proprietary outdoor viewing capability, called DynaVue. Outdoor viewing is one of the most confounding problems related to rugged computing. General Dynamics’ solution is to put the polarizing film closer to the top of the touchscreen underneath the glass to reduce reflection.
Consumers aren’t General Dynamics’ customers–the company sells to militaries, telecom and utility workers, and public safety officers.
Notebook PCs for the accident-prone [Crave]