Dell Latitude 12 Rugged Tablet – a Linus-proof device from Dell??
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,509 words · ~7 min read
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it's unclear to me whether Dell is trying to make my ever popular lol I
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left my XPS out in the rain let's see if it Survived series of videos less
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suspenseful or whether they just want me to work harder to ruin their stuff but
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whatever their motivation was they sent over the latitude 12 rugged tablet for
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the lonus treatment and this device has made it very clear from the moment I
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first laid eyes on it that it's going to take more than a little rain to ruin its
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parade
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out the link in the video description to learn more so let's start with the
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physical tour this is one unusual tablet
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friend I think my wife probably put it best when she blurred it out oh my
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goodness it's really heavy the first time I handed it to her even without the
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optional keyboard cover and kickstand accessory and a secondary battery it
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weighs a whopping 1.62 kg that's over 3 lb which might
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seem kind of hilarious compared to the iPad Pro which has a larger display and
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weighs almost an entire kilogram less
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but I do wonder how hard the iPad would be laughing if you dropped both of them
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in the Octagon because the latitude 12 may be ugly and heavy but where it
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excels is in its ruggedness the corners are all covered in this stiff rubber
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material that feels like a great balance between strength and impact absorption
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which I guess it better be since I'm planning to do some drop testing with it
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fairly shortly and the rest of the frame of the device features a similarly
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grippy textured finish that makes it fairly easy to hold on to In Spite of
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its weight on the top you'll find a microphone pin hole a slider for the
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selfie camera protective cover I mean hey with all that NSA crap going on
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lately maybe that'll become a standard feature am I right anyway moving on uh
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you'll also find both the tether point and storage slot for the included soft
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tipped stylus and on the right you'll find the power button then covered by
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protective flaps a micro serial port a
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must for like scientific Expeditions where a lot of that equipment would look
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at USB like some kind of spaceman connector a USB 3 port for the more
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modern stuff and a power input on the bottom is the pogo plug dock connector
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that I'm using for the optional keyboard and trackpad accessory as well as RF
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passrs for both Wi-Fi and mobile internet in case you want to hook up to
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beefier antennas on the left is another mic pin hole a lone cooling exhaust port
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and another flap with micro SD mini HDMI and a four pole 3 and half mm audio jack
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then around the back holy crap this thing has a lot of IO for a tablet
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there's a smart card reader at the top left with this placeholder in it that
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has common metric to Imperial conversions the Morse codes for both SOS
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and help and a guide for how to find North then right below that is a
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fingerprint reader an NFC contact Point another pogo plug accessory contact pad
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thing with mounting points around it a Super unexceptional 8 megapixel rear
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camera with flash and privacy cover and air intake and dual hot swappable
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batteries that manage an outstanding 5 and 1/2 hours of battery life in battery
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eater Pro with life remaining indicator l and finally a micro SIM slot hidden
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under the rightmost battery
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pack moving around to the front is an 11.6 in 1366 X 768 Gorilla Glass thre
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topped matte IPS display with a glove
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compatible 10p Point capacitive multi-touch interface that results in
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the image being readable but certainly not Crystal Clear when viewed off AIS
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but trades that for being love compatible and being functional even in
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the rain pretty cool it's accompanied by
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a rotation lock volume and Windows buttons and three additional
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programmable buttons below and also an unexceptional front camera woo sounds
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great lonus so I'm sure this Beast of a tablet is making up for its 2006 era
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display resolution with like a quad core i7 and 32 gigs of RAM especially for
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that price right actually it doesn't
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it's got even more features I didn't mention yet like a vibration motor for
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notifications and GPS but when it comes
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through our horsepower the latitude 12 rugged comes up short with a Broadwell
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based Coram dual core up to 8 gigs of RAM Intel HD graphics and up to 512 gigs
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of solid state storage so if you were shopping based on price to Performance
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the latitude 12 rugged might end up on the short something but it certainly
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wouldn't be a list of course that's not why anyone would buy this thing anyway
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so let's go punish it it's rated at 1.22
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M of drop resistance while turned off and at just shy of a meter while
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operating blowing dust at it should not be a problem and neither should thermal
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extremes with a rated operating temperature range of all the way from
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-20° C to
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63° C seriously you would die of heat
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exhaustion before this tablet would an Ingress Protection rating of ip65 means
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that it should be able to withstand Jets of water from any direction and a bunch
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of other stuff that we don't really have the facilities to validate like what is
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explosive atmosphere but even though we
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couldn't run through all those tests I'm still impressed that it still works and
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by works I don't mean that it's an amazing Computing experience or anything
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like the keyboard cover and kickstand accessory that they sent me has a nice
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you know strong magnetic latch and a decent keyboard but probably the worst
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touchpad I've used in the last 10 years thanks to its use of resistive
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technology which is again about glove compatibility and not perfect tracking
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under office conditions and another issue is that like the rest of the
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accessories this thing is not cheap but
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with all that said it still works so if
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Dell's objective was to take the fwn out of my rain torture videos by building a
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device that gives exactly zero cares about anything that could happen to it
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within reason then I guess mission accomplished the latitude 12 rugged is a
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