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Seems that the game is on and the race is tough! Period! A few months ago, NEC joined the race and now ASUS comes in too! It must be good!

The laptop I speak about is the new ASUS B51E, which is MIL 810F approved which surely tells a lot about it. let’s see:

• The laptop can drop up to 75cm and still lives on! Good one!
• The drainage holes on the keyboard prevent up to 120cc of liquid from entering the internal components.
• The baby has a Magnesium-alloy chassis with rubber bumpers.Tough guy!
• High-strength protective film protects LCD from scratches so it can be operated outside, in difficult environment without any issue.
• Sponge protection system keeps harddrive from losing data due to vibration and drops. If you also add this one to the first one with dropping it from 75 cmm, we have a good solution here, I would say!

What the laptop has inside? Well, a Core 2 Duo chip, integrated Intel GMA X3100 graphics processor, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth radios as well as an optional integrated Webcam, so kind of a regular laptop, isn’t it?

I don’t know anything about the price at this moment so let’s wait and see!

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I must be going out of my mind, really! I agree that rugged laptops have to be strong and withstand all kind of tests, but this Indian company overdid it! Before delivering laptops to students, they decided to test them for how rugged they really are, so they put the laptops on a hard floor and asked people weighting over 80 kilos to walk over them just to test them…

After the “test” is finished, the computers are booted and if everything works fine, then the computer manufacturer is allowed to participate in the price bid! How mad is that?

By the way, the company is a government company that delivers IT service in the Tamil Nadu region.

In the video below, a guy weighting 92 kilograms (or 202.8 pounds) and another weighing 85 kilograms walked over laptop computers from Acer and Dell.

I understand that they want to be sure that these laptops are rugged enough to work in those conditions that they require, but I think there is no reason for which they should test the computers these way. Man, we speak about Dell laptops and about Acer, right? I love Dell laptops, they have a beautiful design and the last thing I would do is to walk all over them just to test them…

“We subject any laptop we purchase, even for our internal use, to the same fire-walk test,” said C. Umashankar, managing director of Elcot. “You do have vendors delivering plastics that are very poor quality.”

Interesting that we speak here about 100,000 cheap laptops, because the government offers a big offer, asking a low price instead. We speak here about cheap laptops, at about $490.

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I was reading news this morning and I have seen one that really considered good news. Seems that General Dynamics Itronix donates rugged laptops to humanitarian expedition fighting malaria in Africa. The computers they donated are GoBook XR-1 which are good notebooks for the given cause if you consider the fact that people on this expedition have to go to places that are not very friendly. See? Rugged notebooks are more than just tech gadgets that are used for military purposes or manly jobs like oil extraction or mining activities. Rugged laptops in these cases save lives and this is always a good thing.

“Malaria kills more African children than any other disease: 3,000 children a day and more than one million people a year,” said Helge Bendl, Zambezi Expedition leader. “The Zambezi Expedition is aimed at publicizing the desperate conditions and raising money to fight the disease. We are thankful to have General Dynamics Itronix support our expedition with the donation of GoBook XR-1 notebooks. We needed notebooks that are both rugged enough for a two-month trip in the heart of Africa and powerful enough so photographers and videographers can use them to document our efforts to help rid the world of malaria”

The expedition will actually deliver medicine to people in need, mosquito nets and informative materials to people in isolated areas in order to help reducing the influence of this disease. In my opinion, getting there with anything but a rugged notebook is impossible because of all the difficult conditions of that area. So, I think that the initiative of General Dynamics Itronix is great and it deserves our congratulations!

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