U.S. Marine Corps Experimental Exercise

We have used the Hawk semi-rugged series from Rugged Notebooks Inc. for some four years now in rough outdoor boating conditions and have found them very durable and the only solution for sunlight readability in a large hi-resolution format. Others use Dells or IBMs and find themselves spending hundreds of dollars in curtaining their boats to block out the sun while trying to conducting research or search and rescue. We put them on the dash in foam with rubber band strips to keep the monitors stable and conduct research and monitoring activities as well as navigating in real time. They work very well in rough bright sunlight conditions.

Lex A. Newcomb
GIS Coordinator/Paleontology
Glen Canyon NRA