On 2011-07-03 15:02:07 -0700, "J. Clarke" said:

In article 2011070314211151816-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom,
says...

On 2011-07-03 09:19:38 -0700, Wolfgang Weisselberg
said:

John Turco wrote:

As with the Explorer, I'd accidentally dropped the 500 on the floor,
several times. Happily, no damage (functional or cosmetic) has ever
befallen, either one...which is a true testament to MS hardware's
ruggedness.

There are tons of things one can drop without damage from the
table to the floor. And my papermaker really makes rugged paper,
you can drop it from a skyscraper ... and these ballons, fill them
with helium and 'drop' them from a plane --- really really rugged.


Rugged is when you can wack someone with a keyboard to death and
then continue typing without problems. (Though you might want to
clean out the blood before flies are attracted to your keyboard.)

-Wolfgang

Naah!
Rugged is a MacBookPro which just keeps on working.
http://homepage.mac.com/lco/filechute/IMG_0382Bw.jpg
http://homepage.mac.com/lco/filechute/IMG_0384Bw.jpg

Try http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/23/tou...iger-elephant-
technology-personal-test.html?partner=yahoobuzz with your crapbook.

"crapbook"? Nope! That is just you being obnoxious in your biased ignorance.

....and to own the hardened Panasonic you have to spend $3460, about
$800 more than the MacBook Pro 17 for a lesser machine with a hardened
case.
You get "genuine" Windows Vista, 13.3 inch display, 1.2 GHz Core 2, 160
GB HDD, 2 GB RAM, 802.11a/b/g WiFi. It also weighs 2.6 Lbs. more than
the MacBook pro with a 17 inch display.

http://catalog2.panasonic.com/webapp... Toughbook-30


So thanks for the example of a lower spec Windows machine costing more
than a Macbook Pro, which might be a little bit more thugish.

--
Regards,

Savageduck