It is heavily armored, weighs twice as much, and is clearly designed to do battle with the fully rugged notebooks from Panasonic, Getac, General Dynamics Itronix and the like. While the XFR shares some components and dimensions with the consumer E6420 laptop, this is an entirely different animal. So what is the latest XFR model all about? It is a heavily ruggedized notebook that's based on Dell's consumer market Latitude E6420, but one that claims an impressive IP65 ingress protection rating, a 6-foot operational transit drop spec, and successful passing of numerous military standard MIL-STD-810G testing procedures and a variety of additional and very relevant tests.ĭon't let the "Latitude" brand name fool you.
For the first time, Dell also provided detailed description of all the independent testing and validation performed on the machine, a laudable practice continued with the follow-up Latitude E6400 XFR and now the new E6420 XFR. Next came the first really serious rugged Dell, the Latitude XFR D630, created with the help of the rugged computer specialists at Augmentix. It was a half-hearted effort and quickly replaced with the ATG D630 that had a superb outdoor-viewable display technology called DirectVue, but still wasn't rugged. When Dell realized that there was a small but lucrative market for tougher versions of their notebooks, it came up with the original Latitude ATG ("All Terrain Grade") in 2007. There's a price to pay for that, about four times what a regular Latitude E6420 costs. Just to be clear right upfront: this Dell is not just another Latitude notebook it's a fully ruggedized laptop designed to operate in the most punishing environments imaginable. This latest rough-and-tough model keeps Dell in the competitive rugged notebook market that's primarily populated by special purpose ruggedized machinery from the likes of Panasonic, Getac and General Dynamics Itronix. Blickenstorfer photography by Carol Cotton)Ī descendent of the impressive original Latitude XFR D630 and the more recent Latitude E6400 XFR, Dell introduced the updated and improved Latitude E6420 XFR in June of 2011. The most rugged of all Dell Latitude E-Family models is ready for battle Why the JTG Daugherty NASCAR racing team chose rugged Dells Video:Michael Dell's keynote at Dell World 2013
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