Rugged laptops

[Mark_D]

Hi All

I am looking for your suggestions and experiences on Rugged laptops, I have read the posts about the rm one mobile on this site and it sounds good but I am a bit concerned about the number of mentions about keys/keyboards.

Any other suggestions anyone? main thing is that these will be deployed to kids who have been taken out of the classoom or are under a sort of internal exclusion - so the laptops may well get bashed about a bit. picking off keys is a particular problem in general so any suggestions welcome.

Thanks

Mark

[3s-gtech]

What sort of budget? Rugged = Toughbook, but you pay for that sort of strength! Lenovo Thinkpads are also pretty good - the key design on some does not allow the keys to be prised off easily, and they're well made, quality laptops. Easily available second hand too eg http://www.ict-direct.co.uk/laptops?page=shop.product_details&flypage=vmj_estore.tpl&product_id=29&category_id=11