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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Kontron intros ultra-rugged 13-pound NotePAC]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</guid><description><![CDATA[wow, it's like the swiss army knife of computers]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacob]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 15th 2006 11:41AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Kontron intros ultra-rugged 13-pound NotePAC]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</guid><description><![CDATA[That thing looks like the SUV of computers.  Its huge, beastly, and it looks like it could go through a war zone.<br><br>I irrationally want it.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 15th 2006 11:59AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Kontron intros ultra-rugged 13-pound NotePAC]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</guid><description><![CDATA["and a hard disc heater that keeps your platters spinning down to minus 36 degrees Fahrenheit"<br><br>WTF?  That doesn't even make sense.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scott Olsen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 15th 2006 1:19PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Kontron intros ultra-rugged 13-pound NotePAC]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</guid><description><![CDATA[How can the hard-drive heater thing not make sense to you? You put a hard drive in a freezer, it'll freeze, the bearings lock up and the platters can't spin. Haven't you heard of the freezer trick for resurrecting hard drives for that final last-ditch data recovery attempt before you throw them away?<br><br>Makes perfect sense to me, high altitude or extreme weather conditions are not something I'd want to run a regular laptop in, extreme cold is just as bad for a laptop as extreme heat so I'm glad to see they at least thought of that even if (apparently) those screen hinges are shite. ;)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 15th 2006 1:44PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Kontron intros ultra-rugged 13-pound NotePAC]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</guid><description><![CDATA[We use these in the Air Farce. The display hinges are weak. Not the greatest. Whats even worst is that they run Windose XP. Lame.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed G]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 15th 2006 1:40PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Kontron intros ultra-rugged 13-pound NotePAC]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</guid><description><![CDATA[would this thing be protected against an emp? (are any laptops protected from an emp?)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[P Sin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 15th 2006 12:50PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Kontron intros ultra-rugged 13-pound NotePAC]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</guid><description><![CDATA[Seeing as how EMP's are currently generated only by nuclear blasts, the laptop is probably not your first priority.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Zorque]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 15th 2006 4:31PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Kontron intros ultra-rugged 13-pound NotePAC]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</guid><description><![CDATA[Why isn't it waterproof?!<br><br>Pretty epic bit of kit.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[HOVIS]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 15th 2006 12:57PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Kontron intros ultra-rugged 13-pound NotePAC]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</guid><description><![CDATA[Someone's already made the splash-proof PC. Think it was Tosh or Fujitsu, someone like that.<br><br><br>This laptop looks like it was built to be pitched to NASA for the ISS... But IBM Lenovo got there 15 years earlier. Oops]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 15th 2006 1:42PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Kontron intros ultra-rugged 13-pound NotePAC]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</guid><description><![CDATA[whoopee - this thing is made by a company called Getac.  It has been sold under a dozen different names (Dolch, Ranger, Getac,...) for years.<br><br>Nothing new here - move along]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[jimn367]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 15th 2006 1:28PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Kontron intros ultra-rugged 13-pound NotePAC]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</guid><description><![CDATA[This thing is ugly, ugly, ug-LEE!! For the same thing only better, I'd rather have the Itronix GoBook XR-1. Still Fully Rugged (exceeds MIL STD 810F), but with a load more style and less than half as heavy!! www.gd-computing.com<br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 18th 2006 11:29AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Kontron intros ultra-rugged 13-pound NotePAC]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</guid><description><![CDATA[EMPs are not created solely by nuclear detonation. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[NaibMike]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 15th 2006 5:11PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Kontron intros ultra-rugged 13-pound NotePAC]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</guid><description><![CDATA[You can always tell when a computer is running Norton Protection Center. (yellow icon on task bar.) I hate that program. The laptop, itself sure looks... rugged (and ugly).]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[GJP303]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 15th 2006 5:56PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Kontron intros ultra-rugged 13-pound NotePAC]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</guid><description><![CDATA[Yep, these have been around for a LONG time.<br><br><a href="http://www.getac.com/pages/products/prod_A770.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.getac.com/pages/products/prod_A770.html</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 15th 2006 5:58PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Kontron intros ultra-rugged 13-pound NotePAC]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</guid><description><![CDATA[Can you use it to call in an airstrike?  Seriously, this thing should be sold in either arctic, desert or jungle cam.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[embee]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 15th 2006 7:06PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Kontron intros ultra-rugged 13-pound NotePAC]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/kontron-intros-ultra-rugged-13-pound-notepac/</guid><description><![CDATA[what happens if you drop it 3.1 feet???]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[elmapache]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2006 10:48PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
