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When I have seen www.argoncorp.com website on the internet, I was curious to see what they do.

Well, they do a lot but first of all they produce military display systems, rugged displays to be used in all kind of impossible situations, mostly by army.

For ex, Wearable Display, or 8.4″ Helicopter Mounted Display and the list is long.

As they say,

Our rugged computers and flat-panel displays provide the dependable performance, proven reliability and quality construction required by military and commercial avionics applications. They allow designers to rapidly meet performance, cost, and schedule objectives. These displays and computers meet DoD definitions for non-development items (NDI) and commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) equipment.

The activity of Argocomp is oriented to production of rugged systems for military usage and they have sales representatives on North America, Europe and Middle East.

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Due to the fact that the orders of XO-1 rugged laptop (the OLPC project, remember?) were poor, Nicholas Negroponte, head of M.I.T. Media Lab announced a promotion that will be starting November 12th, what they called Get One, Give One (G1G1). For a limited time you can purchase 2 such laptops for only $399, one of these laptops will be shipped to you, the seller, while the second one will be shipped to a child in need.

I find it to be a nice initiative, only I don’t know how well will catch this to the public. Other people wrote about this here and here and it will be nice if this will start a big movement so everybody buy such computers during this promotional offer period.

The offer is targeted to people in US and Canada. Thus a question appears: what will people in US and Canada do with these laptops? Maybe donate them to schools or what? The market of this laptop is clearly the 3rd world so such an offer targeted to rich countries may not be the best idea. We’ll wait and see…

Anyway, good luck!

Later edit: I have also observed that ruggednotebooks.com features a post on this offer to get one give one. I come to thinking more and more that this project is a bit disoriented from a marketing point of view. Guys, do you know where you’re going or what?

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It is nice to observe that today, RuggedNotebooksBlog.com features a post about our website. I must admit, I like RuggedNotebooksBlog.com and RuggedNotebooks.com and I read the blog whenever I find the time for it. It comes with useful information about rugged laptops, notebooks and all kinds of gadgets in this industry.

Most of all, I like the fact that it reviews all kind of computers and gadgets and frankly I never find the time and patience to come up with these reviews since they need time, indeed and an eye for it. I like more to follow trends and see what happens around this industry, who came up with what, etc. That is why, as I’ve already said, when I have time, I try to get a bit informed by reading RuggedNotebooksBlog.com

And I invite you also to read it since you will find good information about rugged notebooks there. Enjoy it!

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