You can use the multi-touch screen with work gloves and easily see the 11.6-inch HD screen (1366 x 768) in bright sunlight. It has "quad-cooling" thermal management, and... okay, you get it, it's tough. But that's all irrelevant if it's a lousy tablet, so Dell equipped it with 5th-gen Intel Core CPUs, Windows 8.1, 12 hours max battery life and up to 512GB of solid-state storage.

There's also an optional full-sized keyboard cover and vehicle/desk docks that connect via a rugged "pogo-pin" interface. So how much? Dell hasn't announced pricing yet, but obviously there's a heavy premium to be paid for such devices -- its Latitude 12 Rugged laptop with an Intel Core i3 CPU and 4GB of RAM runs $3,649, for instance. Still, rival devices are also pricey, and if you need it, you need it.