If you work in difficult conditions, then a rugged laptop may be just what the doctor ordered
If you work in a place where you find one of the below listed conditions, then you should really consider buying a rugged laptop:
Liquid all over (including on your rugged laptop)
Rugged laptops have sealed keyboards that won’t let the water or any other liquid to seep inside. Also, the ports that you will find on a ruggedized laptop are usually protected by efficient covers that keep the liquid away from connectors so you won’t experience any unpleasant situations in wet environments.
Strong and persistent vibrations
Rugged laptops were designed with this issue in mind, they have strong components, a hard drive that resists to strong vibrations, things that commercial laptops don’t do. Put a normal laptop in a vibrating environment and you may have the surprise of loosing data. Not with a rugged laptop. They are also tested for…
Drops, drops, drops
During a work day you may drop your rugged laptop more than once. You should know that all the components inside it are strong and tested to withstand a strong impact: CPU, hard drive, optical devices, etc. The rugged laptop case is also strong not easy to break.
Electromagnetic fields
Commercial notebooks won’t perform well near an electromagnetic area such as radio transmissions, power generators, etc. A rugged laptop was actually designed to work in such environments, environments where commercial notebooks may actually stop working.
Rugged Laptops Hard Drives
Rugged laptops use Solid State Disk (SSD) as hard drives instead of the usual conventional disks. Hard drives used in rugged laptops are not regular hard drives, with spinning platters. Solid state disks use non-volatile memory such as flash or volatile memory such as SDRAM.Save your Laptop from Beer, Coffee and Soda Spill
Well, even if you know it better than anybody else, you made a sudden move and that large glass of diet coke just got all over your laptop keyboard! Damn! That’s a bad day…Everybody knows that spilling soda, coffee or beer all over your laptop may cause the death of it! Or at least some serious damage or data loss!How to Clean Your Laptop’s Touchpad
Well, I suppose that everybody knows that laptops don’t come with that regular desktop computer mouse. Instead, laptops have pointing devices such as touchpads, pointing sticks or trackballs.