Events, News January 5, 2013

GammaTech Introduces Durabook CA10 Semi-Rugged Tablet PC

Way back at the beginning of my career in tech, when all PCs were beige boxes (with giant ugly beige monitors to go with them), I remember how astonished I was the first time I ran into a “ruggedized” PC. It had been sent to us for software installation, and was sitting on a desk. It was big; really big. 50% thicker than a regular PC. And it was green, not beige. And inside, instead of a lot of dead air, there was padding, and a lot of the circuitry was encased in plastic or something. And there were two fans instead of one. Etc. It was a military, ruggedized PC. I was just stonkered, thinking about this thing being out on a battlefield somewhere.

But nowadays, the military isn’t the only bunch who wants ruggedized stuff. Plus now we have tablets, which are much easier to lug around. So the concept of a ruggedized PC tablet is not very far-fetched any more, and here’s another one coming at ya: the semi-rugged ultra-mobile tablet PC (UMPC), Durabook model CA10, which will have a MSRP of $1,299.00, including a standard two-year warranty. “As with all GammaTech products, it may be customized to customer specifications.”

You can surf on over to the GammaTech site and check them out and, if you happen to be at CES, take a look at their booth. Yeah, it’s expensive, but that’s the price you pay for something rugged enough to withstand, I dunno, cannon fire. Or being dropped on a rock while you’re free-climbing or whatever. Take a look and let us know what you think below!

Tags: CES, Ultra Portable Tablets

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Doug is a nerd from way back, falling for a Commodore PET at the age of 15, and never looking back. Riding the nerd wave, he got a Computer Science degree and entered the tech industry at a young age, deciding after a year and a half of front-line phone technical support that he should try something, *anything* else. He settled on technical writing, and has been cranking out documentation for companies like Unisys, SGI, Cisco, Juniper, and many others ever since. He is nothing short of ecstatic to be working for H-P from his home base in Austin.