Industrial Laptops for LabVIEW

[Dan Bookwalter]

we are in need of a rugged laptop or two that will be traveling with engineers around the country and the world at times.... they will be doing data acquisition and some serial (rs-232) stuff mainly...

anyone have any suggestions ?

thanks

Dan

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Lookup the toughbook

I have seen these in action and quite possibly are the best rugged laptops I have come across.

[Neville D]

I have had good luck with DELL Inspirons.. I take mine to saw-mills all the time.. a VERY dirty, dusty, hot environment with continuous high vibration..

I frequently have saw-dust on them from the static on the display.. still running fine after a couple of years of this treatment.

They aren't marketed as "rugged/industrial" but they sure work fine. They don't come with a serial port though.. you would have to use a USB to RS-232 converter.

I have seen people in the mills use the Panasonic Tough-Book it looks pretty rugged, but they usually lag behind in terms of the latest generation hardware.

Neville.

[orko]

QUOTE(NormKirchner @ Aug 15 2007, 08:25 AM)

Lookup the toughbook

I have seen these in action and quite possibly are the best rugged laptops I have come across.

I second the vote for the toughbook. Their ruggedness is well known, and as a plus they almost all come with a built in DB9 serial port.

Check them out here or here or check out the 3D showroom here.

[Cat]

I'm developing an application on a Panasonic Toughbook as I type. It's headed for a submarine environment, and it doesn't get much "tougher" than that. I had the rep in here the other day and he tossed the thing on the floor a couple times and it still came up running. Plus it meets all sorts of water/heat mil-specs. And, it's one of the few laptops you can still get with a serial port.

[Val Brown]

My vote is also for the ToughBooks. If it's really a rugged environment, they are the best.

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Did y'all ever decide on a purchase