Ariesys Technology Co., Ltd, one of the world's leading manufacturers of portable industrial computers, has resumed production of the ARL998 series of industrial notebooks with a battery compartment, called ARL998-B.
Like all Ariesys industrial notebooks, the ARL998-B series is made in an aluminum case with rubberized corners. Notebooks are equipped with a 17.3” matrix with anti-reflective coating and a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels.
ARL998-B notebooks are equipped with the same industrial Mini-ITX board with 9th generation Intel Core i5-9500E processor, models with a pre-installed Intel Core i7-9700E processor are optionally available. In the basic version, the ARL998-B model is equipped with a large amount of 16GB of RAM. The memory is installed in two 260-pin SO-DIMM DDR4 slots. The maximum supported memory is up to 32GB.
The ARL998-B series has a wide range of I/O ports:
- 2x RS-232/422/485
- HDMI, DVI-D, DisplayPort
- 6x USB3.0
- 2x Gigabit Ethernet
- Line-In, Line-Out, Mic-In
Depending on the installed expansion card, the ARL998 series is available for order in the following versions:
- ARL998-B17WA with two PCIe x8 expansion slots
- ARL998-B17WB with two PCI expansion slots
- ARL998-B17WC with one PCIe x16 expansion slot
- ARL998-B17WD with one PCIe x16 expansion slot, one PCIe x1 expansion slot and 480GB of M.2 storage
This variation of expansion slots allows you to choose the most convenient configuration for installing expansion cards.
To store information, a 240GB SSD drive is installed in the laptop. To expand your storage options, the laptop features a 2.5” quick-release drive bay and an M.2 storage slot.
The ARL998 series notebooks are powered by two 95Wh batteries with hot-swap support. Since the system is quite productive, the laptop can operate on batteries for up to 4 hours. Full charge time for two batteries is about 3.5 hours.