Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Super duper




Wow, super busy lately. Lots of work with my day job, lots of projects going on in the evening too. I also have suddenly sprouted a social life somehow. I think it is a side-effect of me being on Facebook all the time. (which is a side-effect of my day job providing a service which interfaces with facebook) . I need to get whatever version of roundup you use to nip that in the bud.



Most interesting thing I have seen recently is a ruggedized Dell notebook. I have seen a lot of Dell notebooks. Hundreds? Maybe thousands. It seems that whether I am working for a biotech, a startup, a bank or a gvoernment agency, Dell notebooks always abound.
This I have never seen.
It has those kind of twist locks like you see on ATA flight cases for all the user accesible compartments like ram, HDD, CPU etc. On an IBM these would be the FRU access areas.

The dock is the regular Dell dock, with a space station latching mechanism to connect to the armored exterior of the Dell.
It is heavy too. I am guessing 12 pounds?
You could definitely stop a bullet with this guy.