Future of rugged laptops
Will all laptops become rugged laptops?
I can not stop asking myself if rugged laptops will ever become a habit, an usual item of a regular person. Actually at this point, rugged laptops are a special kind of laptops, the industrial line that withstand what others can’t. please notice I said can’t, not won’t or my not stand or whatever form you would like. Can’t, period. Rugged laptops are strong. That is what makes them stand out of the crown. However, I can not stop asking if after 10 years will still have this difference.
Did you ever think about this? Maybe all notebooks will be rugged. Or maybe people won’t even talk about tugged laptops because all laptops will be able to survive falls or water spill or crashes and bumps…Or maybe not.
Will rugged laptops be even stronger? This is more likely
Maybe that all the laptops will be able to withstand these kind of stress factors but maybe new ones will appear and there will still be a category of rugged laptops that will do more than the current ones do. Actually, if I think about it, it it more likely to be like this. Because there is no such thing as the absolute best. Every thing has a thing above it. So, no matter how strong laptops will become, there will be some stronger than regular ones that will be called rugged laptops.
It would be interesting to know what could they take. Driving over with a tank? Withstanding falls from 20 m? Acid? Crashes under a power press or what? Let’s just wait and see.
What do you think?
October 6th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
I think that in 10 years every computing device will be pretty much ruggedized or rugged. Maybe not to military standards, but still very durable.
October 8th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
I also have this conviction that the level of ruggedness of laptops and of computers in general will be increased in the next years.