By Desire Athow
If you want to make any piece of technology more resistant either to environment or usage, there are two ways to proceed. You can get a generic one and shove it in a protective housing or you can buy a slate which has been designed and built from the ground up as a ruggedised tablet.
The first option will only work in a limited number of cases, most involving jobs where you’re unlikely to suffer bumps or water spills. For everything else, a proper rugged device is the way to go, even if it means having to pay twice or thrice the average asking price of comparable consumer-grade cousins.
Which brings us to the Getac RX10, a ruggedised tablet that was unveiled late last year but is still worthy of a hands-on now, given that the shelf life of commercial devices is significantly longer than the yearly cycles of consumer hardware.
Getac competes, in this line of business, with the likes of Panasonic (with the Toughbook range) and Dell (with the Latitude Rugged) amongst the better known rivals.
And for those who are not familiar with the brand, it was a joint venture launched back in 1989 between Mitac …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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