 It's unclear to me whether Dell is trying to make my ever-popular LOL I left my XPS out in the rain, let's see if it survived series of videos less suspenseful or whether they just want me to work harder to ruin their stuff but whatever their motivation was they sent over the Latitude 12 rugged tablet for the Linus treatment and this device has made it very clear from the moment I first laid eyes on it that it's going to take more than a little rain to ruin its parade Music The Master Case 5 by Cooler Master gives you the freedom to truly make your mid-tower PC case your own with a variety of modular parts and accessories check out the link in the video description to learn more So let's start with the physical tour this is one unusual tablet, friend I think my wife probably put it best when she blurted out Oh my goodness, it's really heavy the first time I handed it to her even without the optional keyboard cover and kickstand accessory and a secondary battery it weighs a whopping 1.62 kilograms that's over three pounds which might seem kind of hilarious compared to the iPad Pro which has a larger display and weighs almost an entire kilogram less but I do wonder how hard the iPad would be laughing if you dropped both of them in the octagon because the Latitude 12 may be ugly and heavy but where it excels is in its ruggedness the corners are all covered in this stiff rubber material that feels like a great balance between strength and impact absorption which I guess it better be since I'm planning to do some drop testing with it fairly shortly and the rest of the frame of the device features a similarly grippy textured finish that makes it fairly easy to hold on to in spite of its weight on the top you'll find a microphone pinhole, a slider for the selfie camera protective cover I mean hey, with all that NSA crap going on lately maybe that'll become a standard feature, am I right? anyway, moving on you'll also find both the tether point and storage slot for the included soft tipped stylus and on the right you'll find the power button then covered by protective flaps, a micro serial port a must for like scientific expeditions where a lot of that equipment would look at USB like some kind of spaceman connector a USB 3 port for the more modern stuff and a power input on the bottom is the pogo plug dock connector that I'm using for the optional keyboard and trackpad accessory as well as RF pass-throughs for both Wi-Fi and mobile internet in case you want to hook up to beefier antennas on the left is another mic pinhole, a lone cooling exhaust port and another flap with micro SD, mini HDMI and a 4-pole 3.5mm audio jack then around the back, holy crap, this thing has a lot of I.O. for a tablet there's a smart card reader at the top left with this placeholder in it that has common metric to imperial conversions the Morse codes for both S.O.S. and help and a guide for how to find north then right below that is a fingerprint reader, an NFC contact point another pogo plug accessory contact pad thing with mounting points around it a super unexceptional 8 megapixel rear camera with flash and privacy cover an air intake and dual hot-swappable batteries that manage an outstanding 5.5 hours of battery life in Battery Eater Pro with life remaining indicator LEDs and finally a micro SIM slot hidden under the rightmost battery pack moving around to the front is an 11.6 inch 1366 x 768 Gorilla Glass 3 topped matte IPS display with a glove compatible 10-point capacitive multi-touch interface that results in the image being readable but certainly not crystal clear when viewed off axis but trades that for being glove compatible and being functional even in the rain, pretty cool it's accompanied by a rotation lock, volume and windows buttons and three additional programmable buttons below and also an unexceptional front camera Woo! Sounds great Linus! So I'm sure this beast of a tablet is making up for its 2006 era display resolution with like a quad core i7 and 32 gigs of RAM especially for that price, right? Actually it doesn't it's got even more features I didn't mention yet like a vibration motor for notifications and GPS but when it comes through a horsepower the Latitude 12 Rugged comes up short with a Broadwell based Core M dual core up to 8 gigs of RAM, Intel HD graphics and up to 512 gigs of solid state storage so if you were shopping based on price to performance the Latitude 12 Rugged might end up on the short something but it certainly wouldn't be a list of course that's not why anyone would buy this thing anyway so let's go punish it it's rated at 1.22 meters of drop resistance while turned off and at just shy of a meter while operating blowing dust at it should not be a problem and neither should thermal extremes with a rated operating temperature range of all the way from minus 20 degrees Celsius to 63 degrees Celsius seriously you would die of heat exhaustion before this tablet would and ingress protection rating of IP 65 means that it should be able to withstand jets of water from any direction and a bunch of other stuff that we don't really have the facilities to validate like what is explosive atmosphere but even though we couldn't run through all those tests I'm still impressed that it still works and by works I don't mean that it's an amazing computing experience or anything like the keyboard cover and kickstand accessory that they sent me has a nice you know strong magnetic latch and a decent keyboard but probably the worst touchpad I've used in the last 10 years thanks to its use of resistive technology which is again about glove compatibility and not perfect tracking under office conditions and another issue is that like the rest of the accessories this thing is not cheap but with all that said it still works so if Dell's objective was to take the fun out of my rain torture videos by building a device that gives exactly zero cares about anything that could happen to it within reason then I guess mission accomplished the latitude 12 rugged is a pretty cool freaking device and on that subject crunchy roll the site created by anime fans for anime fans and their sites got all kinds of great benefits for premium users which you should definitely try out by checking out the link in the video description you can get it free for 30 days all you can eat so that includes 1080p streaming that includes access to new shows within 24 hours of their premiere in Japan with professionally done subtitles and the ability to stream to a variety of devices not just your PC so you can watch on your Roku or on your game console on your tablet your phone whatever else the case may be and it starts at only $6.95 a month and I guess by start set I mean it costs only $6.95 a month so head over to crunchyroll.com slash Linus to check out all the great content they've got they've got entire back catalogs of some shows they've got the latest episodes of other stuff like Rocka, Gate, Ushio and Tora, Monster Misumi and like I said before the link is in the video description crunchyroll.com slash Linus and it's as simple as clicking on a link it's really not very complicated 30 days for free if nothing else so thanks for watching guys if you disliked this video hit that dislike button but if you liked it click like get subscribed and maybe even consider supporting us by buying a cool t-shirt like this one changing your Amazon bookmarks one with our affiliate code that kind of thing helps us out a lot you can find out how to do that up there or even by giving us a direct monthly contribution through our community forum and getting a little badge next to your name now that you're done doing all that stuff you're probably wondering what to watch next so click that little button in the top right corner to check out my video where I check out LG's 4K 65 inch OLED curved TV it's pretty freaking smart