Rugged Notebooks has announced its new Eagle series of rugged notebooks starting at $1,695.The notebook is designed for use in public safety, military, and other demanding work environments.
These laptops are meant to sustain drops, spill and shocks, meeting the FBI’s guidelines user-authentication guidelines for computers accessing National Crime Information Center (NCIC) data, though you pay for that in the weight of the beast: the Eagle weighs in at a hefty five and a half pounds. The 5.5 pound notebook has a 14.1-inch display, Intel Core 2 Duo processor up to 2.8GHz, HDMI port, and up to 8GB of RAM. Available options include a touch screen, a proprietary transflective sunlight display, Gigabit LAN, dual hard drives with RAID 0/1, 3G, GPS, and Windows XP or 7.
