Guess we’ll find out lol
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We used these ToughBooks on deployments in the US military about 20 years ago. One of the guys in my unit tested it by slowly driving a Humvee over it. It still worked. Screen was a little cracked, though.
I was a tech reviewer back then and I remember them doing a demo at a show with a Humvee driving over it. Not even a banged up screen in the demonstration. Truly impressive. Gel “envelope” around the HDD, gaskets throughout for water protection, metal alloy body (back when everyone else was still using plastic).
Couple of years later and I got a smaller, slightly less ruggedized version to test as well and turned my 2 1/2 yr old loose on it and absolutely no issues. So toddler tested almost two decades ago!
Daughters Christmas present was a toy laptop because we didn’t want her just watching YouTube but at least she can learn typing and basic skills…
Nope, it’s an ABCDE keyboard instead of QWERTY… No transferable skills at all. Should have just bought a $50 last generation netbook and installed Linux on it.
(Arch BTW)
Some skills may transfer, in her classrooms she will see the alphabet and perhaps remember it from her laptop
last generation
netbook
WHAT YEAR IS IT?
My buddy uses one of these for his work on boats. Doesn’t matter if you’ve got it wedged between an engine and a rough fiberglass bulkhead, can handle being dropped in the bilge.
Way back Storm cases warranty said they would warranty anything except shark attack and children under the age of three. I should have taken a pic, looks like that doesn’t exist anymore.
Which grade? Construction, police or military?
Well it needs to be able to handle random key bashing, undefined stickiness, milk spills, food droppings, crayon drawings and being yeeted off whatever surface it happens to be on at random times
So probably police lmao
That sounds closer to construction.
I need updates on this. Also, create a backup disk for when they inevitably delete something important somehow by bashing keys
Toddler nothing, my cat apparently knows more macros than I do.
Vim and Emacs were made by cats after all
When I was young I once pretended to work on my dad’s laptop, and then I pushed it off the table and broke it.
I picked up a construction-grade tablet PC back in 2010, and while I haven’t been todler-tough on it, it’s still running great and the peace of mind of it being so rugged has been great.
how many thinkpads?
I would wager that getting a toughbook would be a little overkill. I remember one of my friends in primary school, who was on a step ladder taking posters off the classroom wall, dropped his fully open ThinkPad 11e on the ground, not even a scratch.
What is it
Standard law enforcement laptop in the US, also used in the military sometimes, because it’s all but indestructible. Generally they are a few years behind on internal components. Made by
IBMPanasonicThe toughbooks are generally made by Panasonic
