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this here's the dill rugged extreme you're welcome there's alex getting

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canadian soil all over the keyboard can't do that with a macbook and here's

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david doing bicep curl there's alex editing spreadsheets in the shower

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that's what i call peak efficiency there's david crying openly to the iron

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giant and here's alex throwing it in the back of his truck there's damage you

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just get a fight off a bear at night oh yeah

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but what has dell had to give up so that the latitude 7424 rugged extreme can handle

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those extreme conditions and who is this beast actually for is your

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wallet full of pointless stuff like hotel room keys and spent gift cards

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i feel like this goes without saying but the build quality of the dell latitude

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rugged xtreme 7424 is beyond exceptional

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like when i say there's no flex in the chassis i don't mean there's like no

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flex when you just touch around the keyboard i mean you could literally

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stand on this thing and it's not going to care

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but although i appreciate the armor the rugged extreme is still a shockingly

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thick machine with around 60 millimeters

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of girth it's not just thick but it's like three times thicker than a thick

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laptop but like that thickness isn't here for

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nothing since the rugged extreme sports one of the most impressive assortments

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of i o i've ever seen which might be kind of surprising given that you can't

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even see any of it right now this is because one of the rugged extreme's key

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features is an ip65 rating against dust and pressurized water so every usb port

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or headphone jack represents a potential ingress point

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to combat this dell has locked all of these ports away so accessing is a

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little different than your average laptop so what you get standard is two

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usb 3 type a ports standard headphone jack usb c and power from here you have

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some options for i o based on exactly what your needs are our spec has hdmi

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ethernet redundant ethernet serial and a full size display port and

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although that's quite a bit over on the right side is where things get really

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weird so over here we have another usb

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type a a sd card reader and a sim slot a blu-ray player a freaking swappable pci

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storage bay and a smart card reader which can be used for identification and

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validation of who is using the rugged extreme the rugged extreme also comes

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with a certification for a large swath of tests like iec ingress testing

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environmental testing and hazardous location testing this means it's rated

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to do a whole number of really silly things like the operational 15 000 feet

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in extreme cold down to negative 29 degrees celsius it will shake off 40

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degree shock and won't cause an explosion if you're using it around

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flammable gas which is pretty great if you're using it on oil platform along

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with a bunch of other things aligned in this four page document

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as far as performance goes the rugged extreme is no slouch but it also won't

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blow you away rocking a quad-core intel i7 8650u and an amd rx 540 for graphics

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it won't be playing the latest games at full details but if you have a moment

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while out on the field it can run esports titles reasonably well and aside

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from games the system feels very snappy overall and should be plenty powerful

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for doing things like running medium-sized matlab simulations or

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editing smaller cad assemblies my favorite stat though is the battery

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capacity with two 50 watt hour batteries you get the exact maximum amount allowed

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on a plane but even if that isn't enough they're both hot swappable so you can

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easily just pop it out and pop another one right back in if you're

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running low and far from a plug like we are right now

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but one thing with all those components you'll be

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creating a fair bit of heat and since the whole thing's waterproof how the

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heck do they dissipate all of that well if you remove the bottom panel

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which actually is made of magnesium and not the plastic i originally thought it

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was we can see that the heat pipes go from the gpu and cpu and storage kind of

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like you'd expect and then through a sealed wall with the heat sink and fan

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on the other side allowing the heat to get out without letting any water or

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dust in while we're in here we get a glimpse at the rugged extreme's above

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average upgradeability with easy access to two ram slots and external access to

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the batteries and storage if you happen to actually break it though it does come

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with dell's pro support plus which gives you top priority and even mission

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critical four hour parts and labor response although it does say that

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varies on regions so they probably won't airdrop you an ssd in the middle of the

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desert but like in downtown seattle they probably like like it to you or

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something now the display doesn't have the best color reproduction ever i certainly

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wouldn't use it for photo or video editing but overall it's still pretty

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good it has exceptional brightness for use outdoors has awesome viewing angles

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and will more than do the job when you're out on the job the rugged extreme

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also supports a touch display and pen support which is conveniently located on

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the side of the laptop and it's pretty easily the worst touch

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screen i've used for years but that's not without reason most touch screens

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nowadays use capacitive technology which uses the fact that your fingers are a

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bit conductive to determine where exactly you've touched on the screen the

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rugged extreme however uses a resistive touch screen which works based on

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pressure being applied to the display and also just makes it way worse to use

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with your finger but it also still works when you're wearing gloves and have

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water or dirt all over your hands so it fits the laptop the touch pad also makes

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use of resistive technology and feels like it's fresh out of 2006 but once

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again it has the benefits of gloved operation and honestly after i used it for like a day

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i stopped noticing just how mediocre it was so

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i guess it just comes with the territory of something this rugged

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what isn't mediocre though is the keyboard it doesn't quite have the

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precise tactile feel that other keyboards have like it does have a

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rubber seal underneath it to keep water and dust out but

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overall the typing experience is still excellent at this point i'd give it a

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solid a but surprisingly it has rgb so

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i'll bump it up to an a plus as for the hideable webcam it isn't the greatest

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i've ever experienced but i really appreciate the inclusion of windows hello facial recognition and the

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fingerprint reader both nice to haves but is the dell latitude 74 24 rugged

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extreme really about nice to haves like

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would i recommend this to the average person

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no not at all it's like 4 500 and it's

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an absolute bear to use but if you're working around flammable

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gases not blowing up is way more important than alcantara wrist rest if

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you're doing research in the arctic your computer turning on is a lot more

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important than a 4k display and if you're waiting through a bog in the

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jungle i would take water resistance above a 20

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80. so if those are the kind of things you get up to the rugged extreme is

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