Rugged Notebooks: Why Rugged?

When choosing a laptop for personal or professional purposes, it's not just what's under-the-hood that matters.  It's what the hood is made out of that matters!

Rugged Notebooks have several distinct advantages over the run-of-the-mill laptops you can purchase in online catalogs (Dell, HP, Toshiba, Newegg, etc.) or in big-box retail stores like (Best Buy, WalMart, Target, etc), especially if you are a business looking to supplement or replace your existing IT tools and infrastructure.  Read below to discover the many ways a Rugged Notebook laptop or is a smart investment!

Rugged versus Retail - The Comparison

Durability

This is the no-brainer in the comparison wars.  Our rugged laptops won't win any beauty competitions like your new iThing, but at the end of a rough day, our wares will continue to function - any blemishes to a rugged notebook's exterior only adds character and proof of their resilience.

The proof is in the numbers.  Many of Tough Technologies' rugged notebooks, laptops and tablets are tested and certified to to survive numerous 3-foot drops on all of its facets (MIL-STD-1864).  To put it into perspective, that's the distance from which most people carry their laptops in their hands.  Think about dropping your current laptop from that height.  Now... do it.

Go ahead.  We'll wait...

No?  We didn't think so.

Many of our fully rugged notebooks, laptops and tablets are also rated to survive a good rain- or sand- storm - and most can be customized to survive much worse!

Warranty

Most retail outlets warranty offer a one-year warranty with your new laptops.  Sure, you can pay for extended coverage - at a hefty price! - or you can go with the warranty offered on many of Tough Technology's equipment:

5-Year, Bumper-to-Bumper Standard Manufacturer Warranty

You read that right.  A 5-Year warranty that covers standard (read: non-neglect) failures and damage.  Nothing more to pay.  Who can do better than that?  No one, that's who.

Cutting-Edge Technology

Gone are the days where a rugged laptop has to compromise performance for durability.  All of our current-generation rugged notebooks, laptops and convertibles sport Intel's Core i3, i5, and i7 processors thanks to the industry's latest innovations in energy and temperature efficiency.

Granted, you can customize your retail box ten ways to Sunday, but when you're already equipped with some of the best hardware on the market, in a box with more ports and options than you could ever imagine, why would you need to?

Return-on-Investment (ROI)

Yes.  You will save some money on that shiny new retail box versus our tough, rugged and durable machines.  Up front, at least.  But in short order, that laptop will fail.  Retail laptops were not designed to last very long - on purpose! You will have to replace a retail laptop up to three times due to mechanical failure before a rugged laptop's average lifespan is up.

And at the end of the day, you will have spent more buying replacement laptops than you would have spent had you bought a rugged laptop in the first place.  Nevermind all of the downtime and labor put in to reinstalling and transferring data between machines - if the data even survives!

And that eats into your bottom line.

Take into consideration that a company changes its software once a decade, on average.  If the new machine you bought today can run it well, outside of hardware failure, why would you even want to think about buying a new one?

Consider the following chart:

That's at least $1300 in savings, per rugged laptop user, over the course of a software cycle.  Buying a rugged laptop for each driver, field service tech, officer or agent only multiplies the savings... and you will come out looking like a genius CTO, COO, or CEO - and if you're not one of those already, you soon will be!

Tough Technologies is pleased to offer you a cutting-edge assortment of fully-rugged and semi-rugged notebooks, laptops and convertibles with knowledgeable staff standing by to assist you in your application needs - and to give you the best deal possible.  Give us a call and experience the Tough Technologies difference!

Browse our catalog with the comfort of knowing that you can place an order online today or with us over the telephone.

We look forward to doing business with you!