Eight Lenovo ThinkPads hit military rugged standards

[Jagoop]

Slashgear report on "Eight Lenovo ThinkPads hit military rugged standards" (and a new screen for one model):

Lenovo has announced that eight of its ThinkPad notebooks have passed military-standards for ruggedization, making them not only resistant to pressure, humidity, temperature, dust and vibration, but to a greater extent than some “mil-spec” rivals. The ThinkPad X200, X301, X200s, X200 Tablet, T400, T500, R400 and SL300 all passed durability tests despite not being specifically marketed as ruggedized models.

Read the rest here: http://www.slashgear.com/eight-lenovo-t ... s-2335468/

[mattbiernat]

hmm what about my x300? is it a piece of junk?

[Marin85]

hmm what about my x300? is it a piece of junk?

Probably..., so you can give it to me for the price of a piece of junk Joke aside, I think this is some news worth thinking about...

[winston.oyy]

Rather than its ability to withstand abuse, I prefer the reliability of Thinkpads to run stable and neat.

Rugged wise, I opine that there's no laptop that can challenge Panasonic's Toughbooks.

Back in the days when I was in the military, what we had for ruggedness was more of a Fujitsu (I think) in those waterproof and fall-proof cases (I can't remember the name of the case). Once out of the case, the laptop was as brittle as can be. Not to mention that the size of the case could contain 7 or 8 of my T43, just for a laptop. The rest are hard sponges with spaces for sockets and stuff like that. If each soldier are given a Thinkpad, that is another burden in my opinion. Might as well save the strength to carry more ammo.

Anyway, which government would buy Thinkpads for their military other than pro-USA ones? Maybe only pro-USA governments are rich enough to get Thinkpads for their armies, just a thought.

[beGi]

Anyway, which government would buy Thinkpads for their military other than pro-USA ones? Maybe only pro-USA governments are rich enough to get Thinkpads for their armies, just a thought.

China probably... And why pro-USA governments should prefer ThinkPads when they are not made by US company?

Although I don't know what US army uses for standard laptop/PC, but somehow I think they could prefer Dell in combo with casing just as you mentioned...

Maybe someone else knows better...

[ajkula66]

beGi wrote:

but somehow I think they could prefer Dell in combo with casing just as you mentioned...

AFAIK, Dells never saw much military use. In the old days, it was ThinkPads, and I'm fairly certain that it's ToughBooks nowadays.

Lenovo will have a very tough time getting back large corporate customers who have switched to Panasonics over the last couple of years...

[winston.oyy]

China probably... And why pro-USA governments should prefer ThinkPads when they are not made by US company?

Although I don't know what US army uses for standard laptop/PC, but somehow I think they could prefer Dell in combo with casing just as you mentioned...

Maybe someone else knows better...

Oopsy, I was still dreaming that Thinkpads belong to IBM, not Lenovo. The IBM ThinkPad label on my T43 is too misleading, haha.

[TheRedFox]

GRiD brand laptops were used for military a long time ago right? Or maybe in addition to others? I can't find the site where I found this info, but here's some related stuff:
http://home.total.net/~hrothgar/museum/Compass/
http://www.netmagic.net/~clare/GRiD.html

I have probably said this before, but I would LOVE to have a panasonic T or R series laptop. I would also LOVE to have an IBM Thinkpad X301 or X200s. ah, battery-life...
batterylife+durability=AWESOME