Rugged tablet PC slate
(by Conrad H. Blickenstorfer)

GETAC was established in 1985 as a 50/50 joint venture between General Electric and Taiwanese Mitac. The company specializes on rugged notebook PCs and tablets for all-purpose, industrial, and military use. Sold as a "Ruggedized Tablet PC" and now optionally equipped with an active Wacom digitizer, the CA27, while still compact, is larger and more substantial than the picture suggests. It is a full-function PC in every respect, from a mobile low-voltage Pentium Dotham processor to a full complement of built-in ports, to a notebook- style "X-Bay" that can accommodate a variety of drive and wireless options.

Thanks to a magnesium alloy housing, the CA27 can take a beating, and despite its many ports achieves an IP54 rating. A port replicator provides additional USB ports in addition to legacy serial PS/2 and parallel port support. The CA 27 is also available with a sunlight-readable display. View the GETAC CA27 as a ruggedized, full-function notebook computer without a keyboard (GETAC offers wireless keyboards with pointing devices both in standard and ruggedized versions).