There is a new player in the rugged Tablet PC market and it is the Duros from Roper Mobile Technology. This 8-inch rugged Tablet comes with a sunlight viewable screen and an AMD Geode LX 800 or Intel Celeron M 1.0 GHz processor. The Duros also supports a maximum of 1GB of RAM (seems low to me) and up to 128 GB of storage (limited to 64 GB with the solid drive option.) The company claims that the Duros is designed for use in harsh environmental conditions including extreme heat and cold. The device is environmentally sealed to prevent dust and water from damaging the electronics; I wish my cell phone had the same feature to avoid getting water damaged as it actually happened recently. Despite its rugged construction, the Duros is designed to be easily carried around and used on the road because, after all, this is a Tablet PC. As you would expect the Duros supports Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system and at the same time (surprisingly, I would say) it also supports Linux (although the distribution best used with the Duros is not specified on the product site.)

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