The Dell Latitude 12 Rugged Extreme ($3,650 at dell.com) is one of the company’s highly-durable “ruggedized” computers. Built with soldiers, construction workers, and policemen in mind, these units are reinforced to be impervious to water, snow, dirt, and dust — and impact.
Last year, contributing writer Billy Brown took the Dell Rugged ET7430 ATG Notebook to Chile, leaving it out in a snowstorm and pouring whiskey into the keyboard (for real) without any issue.
This year, we got something even burlier: The Latitude 12 Rugged, a convertible laptop/tablet hybrid that’s built to IP-65 specs (which means it’s dust-proof and you can hold it under a shower nozzle, but not submerge it).