The most obvious difference between a rugged laptop and its regular counterpart is the case.

It was a stretch goal, and still is, with the rugged laptops for children costing about $200.

Connected, low-cost, rugged laptops are one way to do it.

Yet a rugged laptop is able to comply with other important requirements such as high performance and governmental grade security.

So does a person who reaches high elevations only in an airline seat really need a more rugged laptop?

Our Rugged Laptops and peripherals are ideal for field activities.

Most rugged laptops are standard equipped with a strap to long-term use and comfortable travel holding.

A rugged laptop is build to operate reliably in dusty or wet environments and conditions.

Hummers have rolled their cartoon-size tires over these rugged laptops at trade shows.

Rugged laptops are usually designed from scratch, rather than adapted from regular consumer laptop models.

Rugged laptops are usually sold to organizations, rather than individuals, and are rarely marketed via retail channels.

Intel has produced a rugged laptop designed for the developing world, called the Classmate PC.

Even the modern-day rugged laptops are equipped with a serial port which is commonly used in the industrial and engineering related tasks.

Designed rugged from the inside out, this industrial award winning rugged laptop features unrivaled performance and connectivity.

Rugged laptops are engineered to be mobile, they are vibration, shock, drop, dust and waterproof.

For other users of rugged laptops, like Jim Bruton, a former documentary producer, surviving abuse is part of the environment.

Nevertheless, Panasonic has high hopes for its scaled-down line of rugged laptops, which are a little less tough than the more expensive laptops.

In other words, designing rugged laptops is an exercise in the art of compromise; there's no such thing as an ultralight, ultrarugged laptop.

It follows the One Laptop Per Child project, a foundation creating educational, rugged laptops for children in countries denied access to technology.

Rugged laptops are commonly used by public safety services (police, fire and medical emergency), military, utilities, field service technicians, construction, mining and oil drilling personnel.

Terralogic's Toughnote is a high performance rugged laptop designed to withstand driving rain, vibration, temperature extremes, shocks and dust.

A. Several companies offer rugged laptop computers that have been tested to make sure they can withstand environmental and physical mishaps, including shaking, bouncing and dropping.

There are various brands that offer rugged laptops such as Honeywell, Panasonic and X-Systems.

- Fifty vehicles equipped with rugged laptop computers capable of displaying a 'common operating picture' that gives a shared, multimedia overview of the border area.

Because most failures of mobile PC's come from prolonged vibration or humidity - or sometimes spilled coffee, rugged laptops have special fittings for their components.