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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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

your Rugged reminded me of GRiD and it looks like they are still in business!

https://www.griduk.com/products/rugged-laptops/gridcase-1590/

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

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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