Patrick White
Vice President of Strategic Marketing for General Dynamics Itronix

This goes back to the use case and the mission, which means you have to take into consideration the types of application that will be used. If you are running applications that are computing power and performance intensive, you’re going to need a computer with more processing power. Although the balance between the computing power and the battery life is critical, in those types of situations it’s probably more important that you have the system performance and you sacrifice a little bit of the battery life.

In the case of our vehicle rugged notebook, we expect that device will be in a vehicle upwards of 80 percent of the time. There, you have multiple power sources available, either through the cigarette lighter adapter or hard wired directly into the vehicle battery. As a result, we use a full voltage processor in the GD6000 vehicle rugged notebook.