What are your favorite insane laptops?
Mine is the Dell Rugged: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F56ION4_n0
Bump and fall proof, liquid proof, sand proof (and cat hairs proof I assume), extreme heat/cold proof, can be used as a blunt weapon in an emergency. Ridiculously overkill for anyone that’s not a geologist working in Antarctica or an archaeologist in the Gobi desert, and ridiculously overkill is fun
Mine.
Quad screen portable setup, baybeh! Razer’s Valerie aint got nuttin’ on me!
ThinkPad W701DS. Depending on configuration it has an intergrated Wacom digitiser w/ pen, a built-in Pantone colorimeter, two RAIDed hard drives and of course the glorious second screen that pops out.
The w700ds/w701ds (“Dual Screen”)
… was not Lenovo’s last try at putting two screens on a laptop; see also the X1 Fold and Yoga 9i
Those things aren’t nearly as cool, though (IMO)
I was laughing my ass off at the “two 250GB hard drives” until I saw that the video was 16 years old 😮
I am on my third Rugged. Two lemons, third one is fine. Beware, these have hardware issues and get the extended warranty.
This was recently featured on Linus Tech Tips: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Ruggedized-trifold-computer-offers-three-18_1600635369600.html
Wow, that looks like something I’d drag to LAN parties in the late 90s.
Huawei Matebook Fold genuinely had me like wow.
Know someone who stole a military navigational laptop worth about 20,000 , it was pretty cool . But not so cool to try to sell it at the bar and be one of a handful of people with access to it. Unused so no interesting stuff on it either.
Who’s going to start the YouTube channel for it called “Kennit?” where you see just what you can use it to do? First episode should be as an oar.
That’s needs to happen! I also want to see if it can be used effectively as a tennis racket.
your Rugged reminded me of GRiD and it looks like they are still in business!
https://www.griduk.com/products/rugged-laptops/gridcase-1590/
Developed with the military and aerospace industry in mind
😮 😮 😮
The way this thread is going I’m almost expecting someone to post a space laptop that’s vacuum resistant next, just in case you need to watch youtube on a space walk
GRiD has been making these ‘milspec’ laptops for decades! I wanted one so much when I was a teenager because they were all cyberdeck looking back then, too!
Getac made some pretty cool ones.
Panasonic Toughbook CF-XZ6
Where’s your trackball my dude
