To the untrained eye, the X600 might look identical to the Panasonic Toughbook 40 T on the previous pages. They're both fully rugged, so you get an IP66 rating against rain and dust, and you can drop the X600 from four feet with impunity. But where the Toughbook is built as an all-rounder, the Getac X600 has demanding applications in mind.
The first sign of this is the powerful Core i7-11850H vPro inside. It's an 11th generation Core chip, but with 16 threads and more wattage on tap, the X600 was 67% faster in the multicore section of Geekbench 6 than the Toughbook (8,533 versus 5,118) and 77% quicker in Cinebench R23 (9,354 versus 5,273). If you need a rugged laptop for core-intensive tasks the X600 is the obvious choice. There's also a Core 19-11950H option.
Our review system has Intel UHD graphics, but again there are options: either Nvidia's GTX 1650 card 7505 or a Quadro RTX 3000. And where the Panasonic tops out at 64GB of RAM, the Getac goes all the way up to 128GB.
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