TornadoVideos.Net
The storm chasers at TVN were going through approximately five laptops each tornado season due to the extreme conditions. The team switched to Dell Latitude XFR rugged laptops and have had no failures to date.
Date
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6/1/2011
These laptops have experienced the most extreme weather on the globe and are taking storm chasing to the next level — I’d recommend the Dell XFR series to anyone who requires reliable computing and data protection in harsh environments.
Reed Timmer, Extreme Storm Chaser, TornadoVideos.Net, United States
Challenge
The storm chasers at TornadoVideos.Net (TVN) were going through approximately five laptops each tornado season due to the extreme conditions the hardware was exposed to. Each failure impacted research and delayed the team. TVN wanted a rugged, military-grade laptop that could withstand the forces at work near the base of a tornado.Solution
The team switched to Dell™ Latitude™ XFR rugged laptops with Intel® processors running Windows® 7 and made it through an entire season with no failures to date, while also benefiting from faster and more reliable video rendering in the field.Benefits
• Zero failures experienced to date with Dell XFR rugged laptops• Eliminated capital expenditures for spare laptops
• 10–20 hours a season directed back into research previously spent recovering from laptop failures
• Able to take advantage of more research opportunities
• Improved reliability with solid state disk drives (SSDs)
• 50 percent performance improvement for video rendering
