Team Geared Up

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - You can keep your MacBook Air! Spotted on the Adventure Blog during the week, the Roper Mobile Duros 8.4in Rugged PC is unreal. I really do want one for Christmas, although I expect the price tag is just as unreal.

Equipped with an 8.4-inch brilliant sunlight viewable, SVGA resistive touch screen and an AMD Geodeâ„¢ LX 800 Processor or Intel Celeron M 1.0 GHz, the Duros packs up to 1 GB memory and up to 120GB storage (up to 64GB solid state drive). Its hot swappable battery feature diminishes downtime and provides continuous battery life.

Hot-swappable batteries is a fantastic idea (that means you can switch without powering-down). The box runs Windows XP (which is suprising for a hardcore unit like this, but I guess compatible for software) and you can also add on communication modules for:

* Wi-Fi
* Bluetooth
* GSM
* GPRS
* EDGE
* UMTS
* GPS

Specs for the geeks among us.

-Robin.