You can hit this with a SHOVEL - Dell Rugged Extreme 2022

FINALLY!!! A laptop that suits Linus's needs!

I work for an ISP and we use these in field service. They're really not bad. Best Laptop I've used so far (for applications outside the office)

Man...I deployed close to 2000 of these things working for LE. I have gotten four back that were shot and they survived. These things have LITERALLY saved lives with their durability.

We use laptops similar to these on aircraft carriers because they’re pretty much indestructible, EMI resistant, fuel/oil/waterproof, and are field repairable. They’re totally worth it when you need dependability on mass scale.

I like the fact it has hot-swappable batteries, that would be a cool feature on normal laptops as well Just keep an extra battery in your backpack and take it out in the middle of a meeting or a lecture or something

Your shovel did not damage it, I've bought six of these for work this year and most of them are not square and level when you place them on a table. Not that you notice it on the field. Also regarding the nine antenna cable board, it's an antenna switcher. Three input connectors (channels), Wifi, LTE and GPS. Two outputs for each channel go to the internal antennas and the dock connector on the bottom. The laptop can then switch if it is using it's internal antennas, or external antennas on the dock. Can be used to bring the antennas outside if you dock the laptop in a bunker with no reception.

That feeling when "The batteries can be swapped, and you can even tell how full they are" is a selling point. Except you owned a laptop in 2001 and it was totally normal at that time. People would look at you weird if you had a laptop that you couldn't replace the battery pack on. Because it's fundamentally stupid to not be able to easily replace the one thing that you know, with 1000% certainty, is going to be need to be replaced at some point.

One of my first jobs was hardware replacement for Dell laptops. The old rugged laptops were a nightmare to open up and put back together. A very specific screw sequence which if you missed one it wouldn't go back on properly

The lack of swappable RAM is because it uses LPDDR4x, which has to be soldered and can't be socketed (this does allow for the higher than usual transfer rate).

My roommate had a similar laptop, and he loved to freak people out by cleaning it with the spray nozzle from the sink, while it was on.

The 1600 peak brightness of the MacBook is only when watching HDR videos (and not all HDR videos, but Dolby Vision ones), and it's only for small sections of the screen (i.e area where the Sun is shining in a video). The sustained all-screen brightness for HDR is 1000 nits, and in SDR mode (normal use) it only goes up to 500 nits (like all previous MBPs since 2016). Though, there's an app called 'Vivid' that uses some hacks to get the 1000 nit mode working in normal mode (with sacrifices to color accuracy), so comparing that with this Dell laptop would be an interesting comparison.

I just love it that not that long ago Alex was very shy while hosting these videos and now he just runs in with a shovel and starts attacking the laptop without any introduction :D :D What a way to go! :D

Wish more companies would build their own takes on rugged laptop tough books to increase competition and drive prices down

I work for the county and our sheriffs office uses these and our public works department uses them , and imo they’re hands down some of the best mobile rugged devices on the market , the fact they can pretty much have a workspace anywhere in the field is huge for them , we have 200 of them 0 issues so far and some of the parts like the HD etc are super easy to swap out if they fail.

I do love a rugged laptop. Used to use a toughbook at a previous job as a maintenance tech. Was super handy, the whole place was run off PLC and having a laptop enabled us to run just about any peice of equipment for diag or testing.

My dad worked overseas for a while in extreme conditions and the only computer that worked without an issue at his site was his Toshiba. All the toughbook style computers had issues.

I’m a telecommunications Lineman and we use Toshiba Toughbooks. Sometimes we have to take them up to the line with us, and I’ve dropped mine , with the screen open, from 45 feet up and nothing happened to it.

Laptop made for Linus. He can drop it as many times as he wants.

OMG at 3:02 I thought they had put a scorpion.jpg on the left side of the screen in editing for some reason... I was so confused until I saw the trackpad had the same image and remembered that dbrand exists 🤣

I have to say, I use the previous model at work as a technician for an ISP. Ever since we updated to Windows 11 the touchscreen no longer works with gloves on or even the stylus acts up sometimes.