Good laptop for truckers

[tJuggernaut29]

We plan on adding laptops to our dumpster truck fleet and want to know a good recommendation. It needs to be rugged and be able to stand up to the frustrations of a not so technically inclined set of drivers. (basically more beefy metal, not something wafer thin plastic)  we want at least a quad core, i5 or i7 with an ssd, does anyone have some recommendations?

Thanks

EDIT: by quad core i meant 4 threads rather.

[argyle]

For rugged laptops the Panasonic Toughbook is pretty much the standard. They are expensive and can be configured with dual core with hyper threading i7 processors.

 

quad core processors in laptops aren't super common in most configurations aside from the higher end performance systems right now.

[Jurrunio]

you have to wait longer for Coffee Lake (8th gen based) CPU then. Real 4 cores only come in gaming laptops which usually arent considered to be that tough.

 

Unless you are talking about fake quad cores, in which it's actually dual cores with 4 threads. In that case i5 or i7 doesnt really have much difference (about 200MHz extra is not worth spending extra for). i3s dont have turbo clock speed so dont get them if you can.

[RAM555789]

Look up US Military Laptops on google, and go to images, our laptops are covered in a protective rubber coating kinda like your iPhone case, to protect it from drops. A case to help protect the laptops would be useful.

[KawaiiRaven]

Depends on what you use them for. 

 

If if it’s just simple communications, logging, or anything like that then try look for older thinkpads or tough books. They are cheaper than the new toughbooks and the older thinkpads are very durable