Getac says its new rugged notebooks offer faster AI-powered processing than ever — and seem to be targeting military and defense customers
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Rugged laptops advertising 180 TOPS with Panther Lake, Copilot+, and optional Blackwell show how much inference is moving to the edge for defense and field ops. If you build for regulated or mission-critical environments, assume on-device AI is now table stakes and design models and tooling that can run inside these constrained, secure form factors.
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