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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on General Dynamics Itronix GD8000 notebook for extreme conditions, or the extremely clumsy]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</guid><description><![CDATA[GMA 4500MHD graphics = Epic Fail.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Spider & The Fly]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 18th 2009 10:02AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on General Dynamics Itronix GD8000 notebook for extreme conditions, or the extremely clumsy]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</guid><description><![CDATA[yeah totally, because when you're in the desert, the Antarctic, the top of a mountain, etc, you just have to do 3D rendering, AutoCAD, Maya, Photoshop, etc. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacob]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 18th 2009 10:49AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on General Dynamics Itronix GD8000 notebook for extreme conditions, or the extremely clumsy]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</guid><description><![CDATA[You are the epic FAIL i guess when you are trying to plot a plan to win a battle or just doing research in the Sahara, you want to play Crysis  go back to bed and here have a cookie]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[RedSpdr]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 18th 2009 11:28AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on General Dynamics Itronix GD8000 notebook for extreme conditions, or the extremely clumsy]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</guid><description><![CDATA[Usually a though workplace is too a dirtiest place and i don't think so that this notebook can runs with some level of dirty particles (for example a Desert or a mining company).<br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Magallanes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 18th 2009 10:03AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on General Dynamics Itronix GD8000 notebook for extreme conditions, or the extremely clumsy]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</guid><description><![CDATA[Your local community college has classes for English.  Please take a few prior to posting on blogs, writing emails, or composing letters to the English speaking world.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ajfarson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 18th 2009 12:55PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on General Dynamics Itronix GD8000 notebook for extreme conditions, or the extremely clumsy]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</guid><description><![CDATA[Not everyone that reads and/or posts on this blog is from SmallTown, USA.  Too bad that community college you went to didn't have classes on manners and being polite.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[matthew Pettigrew]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 18th 2009 2:06PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on General Dynamics Itronix GD8000 notebook for extreme conditions, or the extremely clumsy]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</guid><description><![CDATA[He does bring up a good point, if poorly worded. Can this laptop handle alot of dust and grime? How hard is it to clean the vents? Maybe you can wash them clean with a hose? That would be a novel way to clean a computer! lol ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[MaxSMoke]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 18th 2009 9:34PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on General Dynamics Itronix GD8000 notebook for extreme conditions, or the extremely clumsy]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</guid><description><![CDATA[Hey Engadget--Panasonic is going to be SO ticked off it you do to their trademark "Toughbook" what you did for "Netbook."  Now go sulk in delusions of grandeur . . .]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[solarbuddy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 18th 2009 10:05AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on General Dynamics Itronix GD8000 notebook for extreme conditions, or the extremely clumsy]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</guid><description><![CDATA[EUREKA!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Numus]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 18th 2009 10:08AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on General Dynamics Itronix GD8000 notebook for extreme conditions, or the extremely clumsy]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</guid><description><![CDATA[Best Feature is probably that built in Brief Case Handle. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shyam D]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 18th 2009 10:10AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on General Dynamics Itronix GD8000 notebook for extreme conditions, or the extremely clumsy]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</guid><description><![CDATA[But is it... a bad boy?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ajfarson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 18th 2009 11:08AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on General Dynamics Itronix GD8000 notebook for extreme conditions, or the extremely clumsy]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</guid><description><![CDATA[Correction: They are GD6000, the company i work for just got 300 of them. Great devices.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 18th 2009 11:03AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on General Dynamics Itronix GD8000 notebook for extreme conditions, or the extremely clumsy]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</guid><description><![CDATA[yeah, i was gonna say... that looks like a 6000 and not 8000 on the case to me lol.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Aaron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 18th 2009 1:39PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on General Dynamics Itronix GD8000 notebook for extreme conditions, or the extremely clumsy]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</guid><description><![CDATA[...Anyone besides me nervous when you put a device prone to catching on fire (a la battery fires), and encase it in one of the hottest-burning substances that there is (Magnesium)?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lyle]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 18th 2009 11:25AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on General Dynamics Itronix GD8000 notebook for extreme conditions, or the extremely clumsy]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</guid><description><![CDATA[Famous last words:  What's the worst that could happen?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[coldwave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 18th 2009 12:51PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on General Dynamics Itronix GD8000 notebook for extreme conditions, or the extremely clumsy]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</guid><description><![CDATA[Where the hell did they come up with this military specification?<br><br><br>So a .125GPM stream going at 40mph for 4 hours?  When in the hell are you going to run into that situation?<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[kal326]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 18th 2009 1:47PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on General Dynamics Itronix GD8000 notebook for extreme conditions, or the extremely clumsy]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</guid><description><![CDATA[A submarine probably.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 26th 2009 1:19AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on General Dynamics Itronix GD8000 notebook for extreme conditions, or the extremely clumsy]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</guid><description><![CDATA[If I buy a few of them to you reckon they'll throw in an F-16?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wolfticket]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 18th 2009 5:44PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on General Dynamics Itronix GD8000 notebook for extreme conditions, or the extremely clumsy]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/18/general-dynamics-itronix-gd8000-toughbook-for-extreme-conditions/</guid><description><![CDATA[We used to use these for demos of some simulation technologies for Army platforms.  These demos would take place in dirty environments where a ruggedized laptop was necessary.  The older version of this laptop performed well but the 3D renering was lacking.  The major problem we had with that series was that the machine would overheat very quickly and shut down.  We had to restart the machine every 20 minutes or so.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[BS]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 21st 2009 9:04PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
