this here's the dill rugged extreme you're welcome there's alex getting
canadian soil all over the keyboard can't do that with a macbook and here's
david doing bicep curl there's alex editing spreadsheets in the shower
that's what i call peak efficiency there's david crying openly to the iron
giant and here's alex throwing it in the back of his truck there's damage you
just get a fight off a bear at night oh yeah
but what has dell had to give up so that the latitude 7424 rugged extreme can handle
those extreme conditions and who is this beast actually for is your
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i feel like this goes without saying but the build quality of the dell latitude
rugged xtreme 7424 is beyond exceptional
like when i say there's no flex in the chassis i don't mean there's like no
flex when you just touch around the keyboard i mean you could literally
stand on this thing and it's not going to care
but although i appreciate the armor the rugged extreme is still a shockingly
thick machine with around 60 millimeters
of girth it's not just thick but it's like three times thicker than a thick
laptop but like that thickness isn't here for
nothing since the rugged extreme sports one of the most impressive assortments
of i o i've ever seen which might be kind of surprising given that you can't
even see any of it right now this is because one of the rugged extreme's key
features is an ip65 rating against dust and pressurized water so every usb port
or headphone jack represents a potential ingress point
to combat this dell has locked all of these ports away so accessing is a
little different than your average laptop so what you get standard is two
usb 3 type a ports standard headphone jack usb c and power from here you have
some options for i o based on exactly what your needs are our spec has hdmi
ethernet redundant ethernet serial and a full size display port and
although that's quite a bit over on the right side is where things get really
weird so over here we have another usb
type a a sd card reader and a sim slot a blu-ray player a freaking swappable pci
storage bay and a smart card reader which can be used for identification and
validation of who is using the rugged extreme the rugged extreme also comes
with a certification for a large swath of tests like iec ingress testing
environmental testing and hazardous location testing this means it's rated
to do a whole number of really silly things like the operational 15 000 feet
in extreme cold down to negative 29 degrees celsius it will shake off 40
degree shock and won't cause an explosion if you're using it around
flammable gas which is pretty great if you're using it on oil platform along
with a bunch of other things aligned in this four page document
as far as performance goes the rugged extreme is no slouch but it also won't
blow you away rocking a quad-core intel i7 8650u and an amd rx 540 for graphics
it won't be playing the latest games at full details but if you have a moment
while out on the field it can run esports titles reasonably well and aside
from games the system feels very snappy overall and should be plenty powerful
for doing things like running medium-sized matlab simulations or
editing smaller cad assemblies my favorite stat though is the battery
capacity with two 50 watt hour batteries you get the exact maximum amount allowed
on a plane but even if that isn't enough they're both hot swappable so you can
easily just pop it out and pop another one right back in if you're
running low and far from a plug like we are right now
but one thing with all those components you'll be
creating a fair bit of heat and since the whole thing's waterproof how the
heck do they dissipate all of that well if you remove the bottom panel
which actually is made of magnesium and not the plastic i originally thought it
was we can see that the heat pipes go from the gpu and cpu and storage kind of
like you'd expect and then through a sealed wall with the heat sink and fan
on the other side allowing the heat to get out without letting any water or
dust in while we're in here we get a glimpse at the rugged extreme's above
average upgradeability with easy access to two ram slots and external access to
the batteries and storage if you happen to actually break it though it does come
with dell's pro support plus which gives you top priority and even mission
critical four hour parts and labor response although it does say that
varies on regions so they probably won't airdrop you an ssd in the middle of the
desert but like in downtown seattle they probably like like it to you or
something now the display doesn't have the best color reproduction ever i certainly
wouldn't use it for photo or video editing but overall it's still pretty
good it has exceptional brightness for use outdoors has awesome viewing angles
and will more than do the job when you're out on the job the rugged extreme
also supports a touch display and pen support which is conveniently located on
the side of the laptop and it's pretty easily the worst touch
screen i've used for years but that's not without reason most touch screens
nowadays use capacitive technology which uses the fact that your fingers are a
bit conductive to determine where exactly you've touched on the screen the
rugged extreme however uses a resistive touch screen which works based on
pressure being applied to the display and also just makes it way worse to use
with your finger but it also still works when you're wearing gloves and have
water or dirt all over your hands so it fits the laptop the touch pad also makes
use of resistive technology and feels like it's fresh out of 2006 but once
again it has the benefits of gloved operation and honestly after i used it for like a day
i stopped noticing just how mediocre it was so
i guess it just comes with the territory of something this rugged
what isn't mediocre though is the keyboard it doesn't quite have the
precise tactile feel that other keyboards have like it does have a
rubber seal underneath it to keep water and dust out but
overall the typing experience is still excellent at this point i'd give it a
solid a but surprisingly it has rgb so
i'll bump it up to an a plus as for the hideable webcam it isn't the greatest
i've ever experienced but i really appreciate the inclusion of windows hello facial recognition and the
fingerprint reader both nice to haves but is the dell latitude 74 24 rugged
extreme really about nice to haves like
would i recommend this to the average person
no not at all it's like 4 500 and it's
an absolute bear to use but if you're working around flammable
gases not blowing up is way more important than alcantara wrist rest if
you're doing research in the arctic your computer turning on is a lot more
important than a 4k display and if you're waiting through a bog in the
jungle i would take water resistance above a 20
80. so if those are the kind of things you get up to the rugged extreme is
going to be an awesome travel companion
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