The Durabook R10 is a true heavyweight designed for extreme working environments. With a solid magnesium chassis, brightness exceeding 1,000 cd/m², and a clever hot-swap battery system, the Durabook R10 is well-suited for rugged outdoor use.
A $3000 tablet that weighs 2.5lbs and runs Windows is certainly a choice.
I mean, sometimes you need this, but I’ve bought used Panasonic ToughPads for a quarter of the price that are perfectly fine.
I work on heavy mining equipment and I tell the techs who are looking for a laptop to just buy something cheap because when you drop it off the top of a machine it’s still just as broken.
Same here, which is why I like the used Toughpads. 10’ from the cab of a 4WD to the concrete isn’t going to do any tablet any good.
The advantage of these ones is that they’re generally designed for outdoor use, so they pump the brightness up high enough to see in the cab of a tractor full of windows. You don’t get that from a consumer tablet.
This is for commercial use cases.
Of course but I don’t see the real use case for something like this. The weight makes it not great for use as a tablet and the Windows OS isn’t great for a tablet either. Why not just buy an iPad and stick a rugged case on it or use a laptop with a touchscreen?
Legacy windows software usually. I had to use something like this for soil sampling when I worked for farms.
All the locations are programmed in an old obscure format that only works with one program, and there’s hundreds of fields with dozens of points each. It was just easier to stick with windows that port everything. Plus they’re more rugged than an iPad in an otter box.
Also, in my case the windows PC had a higher precision gps (mini pcie card) that is not available on consumer devices due to extra licensing, and external base stations.
Laptop was probably an option but would have been even heavier for the same level of ruggedness. These days though most laptops don’t have any internal expansion ports aside from m.2, so it probably wouldn’t work for the reasons we needed one.
That’s Windows, not Android. Edit: might be pretty to cool to run Linux on this thing tho
Everything is rugged, except the OS, it has memory leaks all around.
Good point.
Though the advantage Android used to have over Windows (mostly battery runtime) isn’t what it used to be.
Solid magnesium! I’m sick of these squishy liquid magnesium tablets that melt in my hands, finally it has been solved
