IBM Thinkpads are quite "strong" in th sense that they are very sturdy and have titanium casing. Not rugged as such but I have travelled with an X30 all over the place and it has been thrown into taxis, fallen down stairs... still boots ;-) On 15 April 2010 23:53, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > Jim Davis wrote: >> We're looking for a laptop to run in a 10,000', cold, occasionally wet >> environment, and it needs to run CentOS 5. Perhaps something like the >> Dell Latitude E6400 ATG? There's a reference to a minor trackball bug >> for the 6400 under CentOS 5 (http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4192) >> but otherwise it sounds like the x86_64 version should run on it. >> Ideally the system would use a SSD too. Any suggestions? >> > > panasonic toughbook, one of the serious ones with the ip65 rating, like > the 19 or the 30. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- John Maclean 07739 171 531 MSc (DIC) Enterprise Linux Systems Engineer