Kontron’s NotePAC semi-rugged notebook is designed to withstand all the adversities of mobile notebooks. It is covered in a magnesium alloy chassis, giving it a tough shield, shock mounted LCD, 120GB HDD with g-sensor to avoid head crashes and the waterproof keyboard protection. It is targeted at always on move executives, sales personnel and other officials, who would care a less if their notebook gets a bump, but would mind if they lost their data, the battery conks off or they are not able to keep in touch with officials who matter.

This notebook comes with 2 x 2.0 GHz Intel CoreTM2 Duo T7200 central processor, which uses the 667MHz frontside bus and comes with up to 2Gb of DDR2 system memory. The 14.1-inch TFT WXGA display notebook has an extended battery life -- it can be fitted with a secondary HDD or an additional battery with 3,700 mAh to extend the notebook’s battery operation time from 5 hours with a single 9-cell battery to 8 hours.

Other features are on-the-spot wireless communication with GSM, GPRS, UMTS (HSDPA/EVDO), Bluetooth V2.0 class 2 and WLAN 802.11a/b/g. 1x 10/100/1000 Ethernet, 3x USB 2.0, Firewire, internal 56k modem, 1 x COM and VGA, a 1.3 mega pixel webcam and microphone array with hardware supported noise reduction. Along with resistive touch-screen, it also has integrated stylus pen for easy and convenient navigation.

Specifications looks impressive, though I would prefer a fully rugged notebook or the one that is highly sophisticated, not something in between. I like the extremes.

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