GETAC X600 and X600 Professional rugged notebooks

Getac X600 and X600 Professional

The workstation discipline answer for when customary rugged laptops simply aren’t spacious, configurable and highly effective sufficient.

(by Conrad H. Blickenstorfer)

On June 13 22, 2022, Getac introduced the brand new X600 and X600 Professional absolutely rugged cellular workstations with large 15.6-inch screens, huge connectivity, and superior processing energy. Getac did that as a result of typically even the efficiency of at present’s premium rugged cellular laptops is not fairly sufficient. Whereas most such rugged laptops use power-efficient mobile-optimized processors, Getac’s X600 fashions are constructed round Intel “H” stage excessive efficiency laptop computer chips. The image under exhibits the X600 Professional which is essentially equivalent with the X600 however has a taller, extended-functionality keyboard case.

Why aren’t these H-Collection excessive efficiency chips utilized in all rugged laptops? As a result of they draw considerably extra energy. Whereas Intel’s eleventh era cellular processors utilized in most present rugged laptops use between 12 and 28 watts, H stage cellular chips use between 35 and 45 watts. This implies larger efficiency but in addition larger battery draw, and thus much less battery life on a cost. Goal purposes for these X600 machines due to this fact are deployments that mandate an enormous show, most efficiency and most connectivity, both on A/C energy or on battery (prolonged battery capability is on the market).

Getac truly has intensive expertise with this class of machine, expertise that goes again effectively over a decade when the corporate launched the unique X500 as a multi-purpose workhorse pc that mixed the expandability and customization potential of one of many machines of their lineup, the display dimension and graphics emphasis of one other, and the general efficiency and adaptability of a 3rd.

So what does all of it imply to potential clients, and what do you get with the brand new Getac X600? In essence a contemporary, full-size, full-function multi-purpose rugged pocket book pc with a big show. The X600 Professional provides substantial room for enlargement equivalent to further ExpressCard or PCMCIA slots, a multimedia bay for further batteries and even an optical drive, and extra. The image under exhibits the X600 on the left and the X600 Professional on the proper.

Between full ruggedness, the massive 15.6-inch display and all that enlargement, the X600 is a considerable piece of kit. We’re speaking 16.2 x 12.7 x 2.1 inches and a beginning weight slightly below ten kilos. The taller X600 Professional has the identical footprint, however provides one other inch of peak, and beginning weight goes as much as over 13 kilos. Weight, after all is relative: the primary moveable Mac weighed 18 kilos! When the unique X500 was launched in 2011, it had no direct competitors. Immediately there are different rugged giant display laptops, however none as highly effective, technologically up-to-date and expandable because the X600 and X600 Professional.

Now let us take a look at a number of the tech concerned right here. There are, after all, the highly effective H-Collection Intel Core processors, with three choices accessible. The H-Collection makes use of eleventh gen Intel UHD Graphics, so no Iris Xe right here, however Getac provides an NVIDIA RTX3000 discrete GPU possibility. The desk under exhibits the most important specs of the three accessible processors.

The arduous disks that had been the default within the predecessor X500 and X500 Server are lengthy gone; the X600 comes with super-fast PCIe stable state disk. And never only one; there are three PCIe slots within the X600, for as much as 6TB inner storage.

For battery, the X600 can accommodate one or two 74.5 watt-hour packs. The X600 Professional has that, and might have one or two further 46.6 watt-hour packs. That provides as much as a potential complete of 242 watt-hours for the X600 Professional, loads adequate even for these heavy-duty workstation-class techniques.

The X600 and X600 Professional’s 15.6-inch LCD shows have 1000 nits most luminance and non-obligatory capacitive multi-touch. Decision stays at 1920 x 1080 pixel, making for 141 pixels per inch. With such highly effective machines which might be excellent for superior positioning and graphical evaluation we’d anticipate a better decision show or no less than a better decision possibility. As is, customers with precision graphics workloads should depend on exterior high-res shows by way of HDMI, DisplayPort or Thunderbolt 4.

Connectivity is state-of-the-art. The X600 has 4 USB 3.2 Gen 2 Sort A ports, HDMI 2.0, DisplayPort, DB9 Serial, quick 2.5GBASE-T Ethernet, 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2 and non-obligatory 4G LTE with built-in GPS.

Notice that for the prolonged model, Getac switched from X500 “Server” to X600 “Professional” nomenclature. That follows Getac’s method with the smaller, lighter absolutely rugged B360 and the prolonged B360 Professional. Having two variations of this platform addresses each the wants of those that require most mobility in addition to those that want intensive customizing and extra options.

So far as ruggedness goes, the X600 fashions carry IP66 sealing, and 4-foot drop resistance, the latter spectacular for such a big and heavy machine. The machine additionally handed an inventory of different MIL-STD-810H exams. Salt fog resistance is non-obligatory, as is C1D2 flamable surroundings certification.

For X500/X500 Server customers, here is what has modified between the outdated and the brand new X600/X600 Professional platform:

To Getac’s credit score, the corporate stored the unique X500 platform properly up to date for over a decade. However a lot has occurred in that final decade, and so it was time for a brand new workstation platform that takes benefit of all that progress, each in know-how and likewise with the a lot smaller dimension of many parts, interface ports, enlargement slots and extra.

Strong state disks, for instance, take a lot much less house than rotating arduous disks and so they additionally do not want the caddies and cushioning arduous disks wanted. The volumetric vitality density of Lithium Ion batteries has quintupled for the reason that outdated X500 launch in 2011 (see right here). Mixed with different house and weight financial savings attributable to newer tech, the X600’s quantity and weight are down 15% in comparison with the outdated X500.

The distinction is even larger when evaluating quantity and weight of the X600 Professional to the outdated X500 Server. The brand new mannequin has 32% much less quantity and weighs 30% much less. Sure, these are nonetheless large machines, however they’re considerably extra compact and weigh considerably lower than their predecessors.

We’ll report on the X600/X600 Professional in full element as soon as we’ve got overview models, however for now we agree with Getac of North America president Mike McMahon’s evaluation. “Getac has had an extended status for being the benchmark customary amongst customers around the globe and now the X600 takes this a step additional, delivering even larger efficiency, connectivity and reliability in a single, full bundle.” — C. H. Blickenstorfer, June 2022