The Manliest Laptop Ever – Dell Rugged Extreme Review #Helpful Post

this here's the dill drugging extreme

you're welcome

there's Alex get a Canadian soil all

over the keyboard can't do that with the

MacBook and here's David doing bicep

curl

there's Alex editing spreadsheets in the

shower that's what I call peak

efficiency there's David crying openly

to the iron giant and here's Alex

throwing it in the back of his truck

there's David he's gonna fight off a

bear at night oh yeah but what has Dell

had to give up so at the latitude 74 20

for rugged extreme can handle those

extreme conditions and who is this beast

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I feel like this goes without saying but

the build quality of the Dell Latitude

rugged extreme 74 24 is beyond

exceptional like when I say there's no

flex in the chassis I don't mean there's

like no flex when you just touch around

the keyboard I mean you could literally

stand on this thing and it's not going

to care but although I appreciate the

armour the rugged extreme is still a

shockingly thick machine with around 60

millimetres of girth it's not just thick

but it's like three times thicker than a

thick laptop but like that thickness

isn't here for nothing since the rugged

extreme sports one of the most

impressive assortments of IO I've ever

seen which might be kind of surprising

given that you can't even see any of it

right now

this is because one of the rugged

extreme ski features is an ip65 rating

against dust and pressurized water so

every USB port or headphone jack

represents a potential ingress point to

combat this Dell has locked all of these

ports away so accessing is a little

different than your average laptop so

what nyet standard is 2 USB 3 type-a

ports standard headphone jack USB C and

power from here you have some options

for i/o based on exactly what your knees

are our spec has HDMI Ethernet redundant

Ethernet serial and a full size

DisplayPort and although that's quite a

bit over on the right side is where

things get really weird so over here we

have another USB type-a a SD card reader

and a SIM slot a blu-ray player a

freaking swappable PCI storage Bay and a

smart card reader which can be used for

identification and validation of who is

using the rugged extreme the rugged

extreme also comes with a certification

for a large swath of tests like IEC

ingress testing environmental testing

and hazardous location testing this

means it's rated to do a whole number of

really silly things like the operational

15,000 feet an extreme cold down to

negative 29 degrees Celsius it will

shake off 40 degrees shock and won't

cause an explosion if you're using it

around flammable gas which is pretty

great if you're using it on oil platform

along with a bunch of other things along

on this four-page document as far as

performance goes the rugged extreme is

no slouch but

it also won't blow you away walking a

quad-core intel i7

8650 you and an AMD rx 544 graphics it

won't be playing the latest games at

full details but if you have a moment

while out on the field it can run

eSports titles reasonably well and aside

from games the system feels very snappy

overall and should be plenty powerful

for doing things like running medium

sized MATLAB simulations or editing

smaller cat assemblies my favorite stat

though is the battery capacity with 250

watt hour batteries you get the exact

maximum amount allowed on a plane but

even if that isn't enough they're both

hot swappable so you can easily just pop

it out and pop another one right back in

if you're running low and far from a

plug like we are right now but one thing

well all of those components you'll be

creating a fair bit of heat and since

the whole thing's waterproof how the

heck did they dissipate all that well if

you remove the bottom panel which

actually is made of magnesium and not

the plastic I originally thought it was

we can see that the heat pipes go from

the GPU and CPU and storage kind of like

you'd expect and then through a sealed

wall with the heatsink and fan on the

other side allowing the heat to get out

without letting any water or dust in

while we're in here we get a glimpse at

the rugged extremes above-average

upgradability with easy access to two

RAM slots and external access to the

batteries and storage if you happen to

actually break it though it does come

with Dells pro support Plus which gives

you talk priority and even mission

critical for our parts and labor

response although it does say that

varies on regions so they probably won't

airdrop you an SSD in the middle of the

desert but like in downtown Seattle they

probably like bike it to you or

something now the display doesn't have

the best color reproduction ever I

certainly wouldn't use it for photo or

video editing but overall it's still

pretty good

it has exceptional brightness for use

outdoors awesome viewing angles and will

more than do the job when you're out on

the job

the rugged extreme also supports a touch

display and pen support which is

conveniently located on the side of the

laptop and it's pretty easily the worst

touchscreen I've used for years but

that's not without reason most

touchscreens nowadays use capacitive

technology which uses the fact that your

fingers are a bit conductive to

determine where exactly you've touched

on the screen

the rugged extreme however uses a

resistive touchscreen which works based

on pressure being applied to the display

and also just makes it way worse to use

with your finger but it also still works

when you're wearing gloves and have

water or dirt all over your hands so it

fits the laptop the touchpad also makes

use of resistive technology and feels

like it's fresh out of 2006 but once

again it has the benefits of gloved

operation and honestly after I used to

for like a day I stopped noticing just

how mediocre it was so I guess it just

comes with the territory of something

this rugged what isn't mediocre though

is the keyboard it doesn't quite have a

precise tactile appeal that other

keyboards have like it does have a

rubber seal underneath it to keep water

and dust out but overall the typing

experience is still excellent at this

point I'd give it a solid a but

surprisingly it has RGB so I'll bump it

up to an A+ as for the high double

webcam it isn't the greatest I've ever

experienced but I really appreciate the

inclusion of Windows hello facial

recognition and the fingerprint reader

both nice-to-haves

but is the Dell Latitude 7420 for rugged

extreme really about nice to haves like

would I recommend this to the average

person no not at all it's like $4,500

and it's an absolute bear to use but if

you're working around flammable gases

not blowing up is way more important

than Alcantara wrist rest if you're

doing research in the Arctic your

computer turning on is a lot more

important than a 4k display and if

you're wading through a bog in the

jungle I would take water resistance

above a 2080

so if those are the kind of things you

get up to the rugged extreme is going to

be an awesome travel companion

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