Laptops Arena

The first rugged laptop from Dell is Latitude XFR D630, destined for commercial customers and government, available in US at a price of $3,899, which includes high resistance in high temperature environments, moisture, and altitude, plus a special thermal management system capable of delivering great graphics performance.

It gives its users access to the Next Business Day On-Sire service for hardware components, and as key features we mention the integrated resistive touch technology, shock isolated mounting for HDD, LCD and electronics protection, dual locking butterfly mechanisms for easy access and a sealed keyboard against rain and dust particles.

The operating system can be wither Windows XP or Vista versions, while the Latitude XFR D630 sports a 14.1-inch DirectVue display with 1280 x 800 pixels resolution and 500 nit brightness, integrating up to 4GB DDR SDRAM shared memory with the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 with 358MB memory.

It includes a thermally-enhanced ruggedized, shock mounted 1.8-inch 80GB hard drive, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, WLAN , Bluetooth, and several physical connectivity options such as docking connector and VGA.

There are also several elements meant to protect the model, and these are: Cable Lock Slots, Media Module, Hard Drive Locks, Integrated Smart Card Reader, Trusted Platform Module 1.2 and integrated UPEK finger print reader, Wave Embassy Trust Suite by Wave Systems security software, 802.11 Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), 802.11i (WPA2), 802.1x with EAP modes, and Single Sign On and compatible CCX 4.0.