Re: Rugged enough?
A Panasonic Toughbook would kick sand in the Dell's face and steal it's girlfriend after drinking it's milkshake. That is one mean dude with 'tude.
I was going to Basra to set-up a four laptop wifi network in 2004 [long story cut short - didn't] and I asked the best informed computer guys I knew what laptop? Unanimous, Toughbooks.
In the '90s I had my girlfriends Panda in my garage under a blanket, and my rotten illegal Civic on the street under a blanket of snow. The Civic started. Dells are Pandas.