Rugged Extreme Laptop Video

[Ron Beaufort]

I'm don't have time to read the forum as much as I used to - so maybe I've missed anything posted about this subject ... I ran across it and thought that someone might be interested ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51zAvIkU7dc&feature=youtu.be

sorry if this is a duplicate thread ...

party on ...

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[Dallin]

I have one of these and yes it is rugged but they are just to heavy and the screen resolution sucks. I hate having to scroll around to see all my logic on the screen for larger programs. I actually program differently so I can get less logic on a rung so I can see it all but end up having to scroll up and down a lot.

On mine I have replaced the mother board once, the usb ports once, and the hard drive died on me also.

If Dell would bump up the resolution on the screen and add a couple of more USB ports this thing would be a nice laptop. The Legacy card option that plugs into the CD drive slot is a nice option.

It comes with a serial port on it as well as an additional ethernet port. It is handy for connecting to multiple networks. At one time I managed to get connected to my corporate network, and two PLC networks and if I had to I could have connected via serial.

I like the flip option on the new ones but my company will not order anything with touch screens.

 

[Ron Beaufort]

thanks for the "downside" comments ... I've got enough common sense to figure out that the cool video wasn't giving all of the details ...

 

[Badger]

"On mine I have replaced the mother board once, the usb ports once, and the hard drive died on me also."

That alone will stop me from buying one.