The latest tablets all look so slim and slender, but then we also cannot ignore that those super thin tablets are also quite fragile and cannot be abused. So what if you want a tablet so much you’d die for one, and yet you are always in those dangerous environments where aliens will invade at any time, and a slight slip means the tablet will fall 3 storeys to muddy grounds with nails scattered everywhere.

Enter Xplore Technologies and its newest bombproof tablet, the iX104C5. This freshly minted model follows its progenitor PCs, the C2, C3, and the C4, in that it has a 10.4-inch XGA display and rugged good looks. This is something you bring to Afghanistan just to play Angry Birds.

Underneath that industrial exterior, the C5 improves upon earlier models with a 2.13GHz Intel Core i7 620UE processor and 2GB of RAM (expandable to 8GB) running Windows 7. It has dedicated GPS, Gigabit ethernet, Bluetooth 2.1, 802.11 a/b/g/n WiFi, and a Gobi 2000 mobile broadband card to live stream you about Steve Jobs’ speech at WWDC 2011 when you’re at the warzone.

There’s also a hot-swappable 10-cell Li-Ion battery and dual SSD drive capability with RAID support, so your data is as safe as the hardware housing it, so that you won’t lose your emails sent by your petite girlfriend back home. This thing can survive being thermally shocked, dropped, vibrated, and generally abused so that you have no excuse of losing those precious photos.

There are two models coming from the company, one that’s called “Lite” version starting at $3,299, and another more elite version for the top dogs, which will kill any dogs at $7,200.

SOURCE via Xplore Technologies