Screen

Outdoor Viewable Screen
Commercial laptops are almost impossible to read at the beach or out by the pool, Rugged laptops use  several different technologies to enable the screen to be viewed in bright direct sunlight. If you intend to use a rugged laptop outside or in a mobile environment, daylight-readable or sunlight-readable mandatory. Tough Corp’s rugged laptops either come standard with an outdoor display screen, or offer daylight readable screen as an option, the screen brightness is measured in NITS, Tough Corps rugged laptop screens are now as bright as 1200 NITS. Some rugged computers have a normal display screen but use an anti-glare, anti-reflective coating. Other rugged laptops have hi-bright and anti-glare or a transflective, sunlight-readable display that uses the ambient light to brighten the screen.

Touch Screen Display
Touch screens are often a feature or upgrade option on rugged laptops, rugged tablets and rugged UMPC’s that are not offered on commercial Laptops. A Touch screen is another input method to move around in an application other than the keyboard/mouse.
Rugged Tablet PC's have a touch screen or digitizer since they have no keyboard or mouse. Tough Corp’s ruggedized laptops offer a touch screen as either standard or optional feature. There are two types of touch screens come, the more traditional finger-touch style of touch screen also called passive or resistive and the newer style digitizer, active digitizers requires the use of a stylus pen and allows for handwriting or signature capture directly on the screen. Tough Corp offer rugged laptops with both types or a dual-mode which provides both options in the same rugged computer.

Touch screens in a rugged laptop are often a desirable feature for a rugged laptop that is mounted in a vehicle or used in a field environment where typing is difficult. Some companies develop or purchase field application software that is specifically designed with a touch screen or digitizer in mind it will have large touch buttons on the screen and be very easy to navigate around the screen.

Display Screen Size
Screen sizes in rugged laptops, rugged tablets, rugged UMPC considerably. Rugged Handheld's are typically around 4", Rugged UMPC's are 5 - 9", Rugged Tablets are usually 8.4" or 10.4", Rugged Laptops can be 12.1", 13.3", 14.1", 15" or even 17" and Fixed-Mounts can be 10.4 -15". The screen size is measured diagonally, not vertically or horizontally.

Display Resolution
The image that is displayed on the screen of your rugged laptop is composed of thousands (or millions) of small dots; these are called pixels; the word is a contraction of the phrase "picture element". A pixel represents the smallest piece of the screen that can be controlled individually. Each one can be set to a different colour and intensity (brightness). The number of pixels that can be displayed on the screen is referred to as the resolution of the image; this is normally displayed as a pair of numbers, such as 640x480. The first is the number of pixels that can be displayed horizontally on the screen, and the second how many can be displayed vertically. The higher the resolution, the more pixels that can be displayed and therefore the more that can be shown on the monitor at once, however, pixels are smaller at high resolution and detail can be hard to make out on smaller screens. Resolutions generally fall into predefined standard sets; only a few different resolutions are used by most rugged PCs.

VGA: 640 x 480
SVGA: 800 x 600
XGA: 1024 x 768
SXGA: 1280 x 1024
UXGA: 1600 x 1200
WUXGA: 1920 x 1200