it's unclear to me whether Dell is trying to make my ever popular lol I
left my XPS out in the rain let's see if it Survived series of videos less
suspenseful or whether they just want me to work harder to ruin their stuff but
whatever their motivation was they sent over the latitude 12 rugged tablet for
the lonus treatment and this device has made it very clear from the moment I
first laid eyes on it that it's going to take more than a little rain to ruin its
parade
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physical tour this is one unusual tablet
friend I think my wife probably put it best when she blurred it out oh my
goodness it's really heavy the first time I handed it to her even without the
optional keyboard cover and kickstand accessory and a secondary battery it
weighs a whopping 1.62 kg that's over 3 lb which might
seem kind of hilarious compared to the iPad Pro which has a larger display and
weighs almost an entire kilogram less
but I do wonder how hard the iPad would be laughing if you dropped both of them
in the Octagon because the latitude 12 may be ugly and heavy but where it
excels is in its ruggedness the corners are all covered in this stiff rubber
material that feels like a great balance between strength and impact absorption
which I guess it better be since I'm planning to do some drop testing with it
fairly shortly and the rest of the frame of the device features a similarly
grippy textured finish that makes it fairly easy to hold on to In Spite of
its weight on the top you'll find a microphone pin hole a slider for the
selfie camera protective cover I mean hey with all that NSA crap going on
lately maybe that'll become a standard feature am I right anyway moving on uh
you'll also find both the tether point and storage slot for the included soft
tipped stylus and on the right you'll find the power button then covered by
protective flaps a micro serial port a
must for like scientific Expeditions where a lot of that equipment would look
at USB like some kind of spaceman connector a USB 3 port for the more
modern stuff and a power input on the bottom is the pogo plug dock connector
that I'm using for the optional keyboard and trackpad accessory as well as RF
passrs for both Wi-Fi and mobile internet in case you want to hook up to
beefier antennas on the left is another mic pin hole a lone cooling exhaust port
and another flap with micro SD mini HDMI and a four pole 3 and half mm audio jack
then around the back holy crap this thing has a lot of IO for a tablet
there's a smart card reader at the top left with this placeholder in it that
has common metric to Imperial conversions the Morse codes for both SOS
and help and a guide for how to find North then right below that is a
fingerprint reader an NFC contact Point another pogo plug accessory contact pad
thing with mounting points around it a Super unexceptional 8 megapixel rear
camera with flash and privacy cover and air intake and dual hot swappable
batteries that manage an outstanding 5 and 1/2 hours of battery life in battery
eater Pro with life remaining indicator l and finally a micro SIM slot hidden
under the rightmost battery
pack moving around to the front is an 11.6 in 1366 X 768 Gorilla Glass thre
topped matte IPS display with a glove
compatible 10p Point capacitive multi-touch interface that results in
the image being readable but certainly not Crystal Clear when viewed off AIS
but trades that for being love compatible and being functional even in
the rain pretty cool it's accompanied by
a rotation lock volume and Windows buttons and three additional
programmable buttons below and also an unexceptional front camera woo sounds
great lonus so I'm sure this Beast of a tablet is making up for its 2006 era
display resolution with like a quad core i7 and 32 gigs of RAM especially for
that price right actually it doesn't
it's got even more features I didn't mention yet like a vibration motor for
notifications and GPS but when it comes
through our horsepower the latitude 12 rugged comes up short with a Broadwell
based Coram dual core up to 8 gigs of RAM Intel HD graphics and up to 512 gigs
of solid state storage so if you were shopping based on price to Performance
the latitude 12 rugged might end up on the short something but it certainly
wouldn't be a list of course that's not why anyone would buy this thing anyway
so let's go punish it it's rated at 1.22
M of drop resistance while turned off and at just shy of a meter while
operating blowing dust at it should not be a problem and neither should thermal
extremes with a rated operating temperature range of all the way from
-20° C to
63° C seriously you would die of heat
exhaustion before this tablet would an Ingress Protection rating of ip65 means
that it should be able to withstand Jets of water from any direction and a bunch
of other stuff that we don't really have the facilities to validate like what is
explosive atmosphere but even though we
couldn't run through all those tests I'm still impressed that it still works and
by works I don't mean that it's an amazing Computing experience or anything
like the keyboard cover and kickstand accessory that they sent me has a nice
you know strong magnetic latch and a decent keyboard but probably the worst
touchpad I've used in the last 10 years thanks to its use of resistive
technology which is again about glove compatibility and not perfect tracking
under office conditions and another issue is that like the rest of the
accessories this thing is not cheap but
with all that said it still works so if
Dell's objective was to take the fwn out of my rain torture videos by building a
device that gives exactly zero cares about anything that could happen to it
within reason then I guess mission accomplished the latitude 12 rugged is a
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