Dell Announces New "Extreme" Rugged Laptop

Today Dell updated their line of semi-rugged notebooks with the fully ruggedized Latitude XFR D630. The first fullyruggedized laptop made by Dell, the Latitude XFR D630 delivers "extreme durability without compromising performance." Intended for government and commercial customers, the laptop is available today in the U.S. and starts at $3,899.

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The Latitude XFR D630 meets MIL-STD 810F standards from the Department of Defense for products that operate in extreme temperatures, moisture and altitude. The system shares common components with Dell's current line of Latitude laptops to greatly simplify maintenance. The XFR D630 clearly competes with the Panasonic Toughbook line of fully ruggedized notebooks. In fact, Dell specifically mentions in their press materials that a patent-pending thermal management system allows the XFR D630 to deliver up to four times better graphics performance than the Panasonic CF-30.

Dell also offers an impressive standard service with the XFR D630, including Next Business Day On-Site service for major components inside the laptop. This is important since competitors require customers to return systems for service.

Additional specs and features for the Latitude XFR D630 include:

• Five times more data durability of leading competitors with solid state drives
• Latitude ExpressCharge charges batteries at least 30 minutes faster than competitors
• Outdoor readable screen at 500 nits
• Integrated resistive touch technology to easily interface with the system
• Shock isolated mounting to help protect hard drive, LCD and core electronic elements
• Dual locking butterfly mechanisms for easy access to components
• Sealed keyboard designed to withstand driving rain and dust

Visit the Dell website for complete specs and additional information.

 

Wow, the first ToughBook competitor....an interesting move of Dell...

 

Wow, I don't know if you guys are familiar with MIL-STD 810F, but it is has some pretty rigorous environmental requirements. Does the Toughbook comply to that spec too? I'd imagine it does, but I don't know for sure.

 

Yes it does. Panasonic has a huge facility JUST to test its toughbook series. These torture tests are amazing to watch. Makes you cringe even though you know they will survive the tests.

 

I got a kick out of the blurb at the bottom:

Really cool stuff. I can't wait to see how Panasonic ramps it up to compete with this.

 

500 nits the power of the sun on the lap of my pants.

 

One word: Overpriced.
But if you really need to go to Mount Everest with a laptop, then I guess $4000 should be alright.

 

It looks like I could throw it as hard as I possibly could from over my head and it wouldn't break.

The people that will use this are people inventing REALLY important things (coming from a friend who owns a toughbook and create miniature spy planes)

 

I see alot of this in police cars.

Good for those who want something rugged.

 

Our State Police all have the Panasonic Toughbooks in their cruisers. All the local PD's all have the Thinkpads (well, the used to, now they are using touchscreen MDT's).

 

Thanks for the info!

This notebook isn't really intended to marketed at consumers. Where I work we use a lot of the toughbooks for military related applications, which is all you can really use. A consumer/business notebook could not stand up to the harsh environments the notebooks would see.

What would be interesting is to see this thing dissected and see how it meets all the mil standard requirements.

 

MIL-STD-810 isn't standard of protectability, it is only standard of test methods to exemine reaction of 'materiels' on aggresive environment.
So, not "comply to MIL-STD-810", but "tested in compliance with 810 with following results".
Interesting are just these "following results". Also interestign is, what IP-code (or NEMA type) does this device comply. Is there any concrete info? Dell.com kepps silence...
By the way, Toughbook competitors are also Getac and General Dynamics Itronix and some others - it is not unique product.

 

Russian rugged notebook - in best traditions of russian military industry: big, heavy and reliable - like T80 or something like this :



Docking station:


High temperature (+55°С and dust protection test:
http://www.ts.ru/images/nb_hightemp_f.jpg
Low temperature (-20°С test:
http://www.ts.ru/images/nb_lowtemp_f.jpg

 

Man, these things are UGLY.

 

haha thats cool.

It's dell response to the Panasonic toughbook. There's a story that went round on forums that a bullet from a Glock was stopped by the toughbook. I'm not sure if it's true though