Maybe it's a sign of the times that everybody's showing up with a new high-impact laptop that's just begging for the old Samsonite treatment.
The smallest of the bunch is a just-confirmed Panasonic Toughbook UMPC, powered by the Atom chip, Intel's super-tiny, power-saving processor and sporting a shock-resistant 5.6" touch screen.
But if you're looking for slightly larger toughness, DRS Tactical Systems' ARMOR C12 clearly wants to push Toughbook's face in
with a 12.1" outdoor-readable touch screen display, shock-mounted 60GB HDD, 1.2GHz CPU, 512MB of DDR2, biometric scanner, WiFi, Ethernet, a die-cast magnesium case, and more testosterone than the WWF and the WWE combine. But if you want even more - and about $4000 to spend - you can get a Desert Tan Dell Latitude XFR D630, which ups the stats to 14.1", 80GB, 4GB of DDR2 RAM, and 2.2GHz.
We really don't think you'll need Accidental Damage coverage on these, but a SquareTrade warranty will cover any mechanical or electrical problems that crop up inside all that armor. Though frankly, we can think of a lot of uses for a nine-pound, metal-cased laptop that won't power on... most involving crime or Olympic events.
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