Technology

We don&t talk about rugged laptops very much, largely because these machines are almost exclusively used by a unique group of individuals: military personnel, first responders, law enforcement, petrochemical workers, field engineers and field technicians. The people that keep us safe and keep our critical infrastructure working.

We tend to talk more about what these people do than what they use to do it with. I think this is a shame, because I also think that, largely thanks to Apple, we went way the hell too far to make our laptops sexy and abandoned the idea of making them robust. We even gave up ports and nice keyboards in an effort to make them super thin and, as I type this, I&m thinking we may have missed a meeting.