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GammaTech is poised to release the Durabook D14 E-series ultra rugged laptops. Overall the new model is fairly similar to the older D14RM, but this one will come equipped with a full 1TB of hard drive space. The manufacturer claims the system will be resistant to drops, spills, and dust accumulation thanks to the magnesium case and anti-shock materials. That’s a lot of storage that you can toss around with reckless abandon.
Other specs include a 14.1 inch widescreen display, Core 2 Duo CPU, and up to 8GB of RAM. The terabyte of storage comes in the form of two 7200RPM 500GB hard drives. Customers will be able to choose either RAID-0 or RAID-1 configurations; users may also forego RAID all together and use the disks independently.
GammaTech has not announced pricing yet, but expect it to be high. The D14RM ran about $1500 without the huge hard drive capacity. Can you see yourself ever buying one of these rugged laptops for business or personal use?
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mattd390
January 20, 2010 at 10:55am
I woudl've thought that any type of "rugged" laptop would have SSDs in it to make it even more resilient to falls/drops. Possibly even an SSD and hard drive combo would be more appealing.
Caboose
January 20, 2010 at 12:44pm
I thought the same thing. But, with the cost of SSD's still, I'm sure most companies will include a standard HDD for now until the price of SSD's drop, or their capacity increases a lot more...
Makes sense to us though!
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Caboose
January 20, 2010 at 7:16am
hmm. I wonder how these compare in cost, to the Panasonic ToughBooks. Maybe if these are a cheaper way to go, I could get my workplace to switch!
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Vano
January 19, 2010 at 10:10pm
"Two 200-pin DDRII SODIMM sockets each for 1GB/2GB (8GB Maximum)"
As I understand this statement, there are two sockets for RAM modules, each socket supports 1 or 2GB of ram....now how do you get 8gb?
CloudRider
January 19, 2010 at 8:47pm
I'd love to own one of these, so that I'd have something I'd feel comfortable taking with me out camping, but for the limited use it'd see, it hardly justifies the cost. Sadly.
