Review of Durabook's reliable Z14I industrial laptop

10 December 2021 Product News

Z14I Durabook Rugged Industrial laptop with Intel Core i5 Processor, Up to 64GB DDR4 RAM, 2.5 '' Drive Bay, 2xLAN, 4xUSB

The Z14I DURABOOK Notebook is a rugged laptop designed to high standards, featuring an Intel Core i5-1135G7 quad-core processor and DDR4 expandable memory up to 64GB, delivering high-performance IP65. The durable magnesium alloy shielded chassis offers a variety of interfaces for industrial IoT and SCADA applications.


The Z14I DURABOOK Notebook uses an 11th generation Intel Core i5-1135G7 processor from Tiger Lake, which has four physical cores and eight virtual threads. The 10nm lithography delivers a maximum 4.20GHz Turbo Boost frequency and an exceptionally low 28W TDP power loss under very demanding workloads. This enables the processor to deliver superior performance for compute-intensive special applications with various technologies such as Intel Hyper-Threading, Speed Shift and enhancements such as Intel Gaussian and Neural acceleration, and an imaging engine. As a storage medium, the Z14I DURABOOK Notebook uses an 8 GB working memory in a basic configuration, which can be expanded to 64 GB of DDR4 RAM in two banks in dual channel mode for data-intensive processes. The primary drive consists of a 256GB M.2 SSD for the operating system and user data, and can be expanded with an SSD or hard drive in a 2.5-inch bay for optimal performance or storage capacity.

The reliable Z14I DURABOOK Notebook laptop offers a large number of five USB ports as interfaces, which support connecting various types of peripherals via a variety of formats, including Type A and C, as well as Thunderbolt. They add two serial COM connections to RS232 / 422/485, dual LAN with Gigabit Ethernet for branched or redundant network topography, WLAN 802.11 ac / a / b / g / n and GPS, Bluetooth 5.0, smart card and optional reader fingerprint for secure authentication. For graphics output, the Z14I-DURABOOK-Rugged-M DB-15 provides VGA and HDMI and supports triple independent viewing on three different displays. The built-in 14-inch touchscreen features Full HD 1080p resolution and is suitable for use in extremely bright lighting conditions, including direct sunlight, thanks to its high 1000 nits brightness. Capacitive sensing supports multi-touch and allows you to work with a variety of input means such as fingers, touch gloves or a suitable stylus. Optionally, you can use a dedicated graphics card such as the Nvidia GeForce GTX1050 for image acceleration or integrated AI or AI.


The powerful Z14I DURABOOK Notebook is built to withstand extreme loads and is rugged. Using two 7800mAh or 4700mAh rechargeable batteries ensures uninterrupted hot-swappable operation between multiple batteries. The very wide temperature range from -20 ° C to + 60 ° C in combination with the IP65 hard magnesium housing seal allows it to be used in extremely harsh environments. In addition to being certified according to the military standard MIL-STD-810G for thermal, physical and weather stress, the Z14I DURABOOK Notebook complies with explosion protection according to ANSI / ISA Class I and II, Division 2 and Class III, divisions 1 and 2, which makes it suitable even for use in extremely flammable and explosive environments. Due to its characteristics, the rugged laptop is suitable for a variety of purposes, including technical monitoring and programming of autonomous robotics in extreme environmental conditions.

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