If you want the ultimate in safety, the
MTU Ruggedized Laptop with Magnesium metal case is the way to go.
These items are shock mounted; display, Hard drive, keyboard sealed, touch pad sealed. It is Mil Spec as to drop testing and vibration testing. It is designed for reliable, portable use.
As to the problems reported with Hoster (on any computer), I believe these are due to Hoster 3.310/3.311 not working as well with Plexor drives with hardware error correction built in. We shifted to a new vendor's code to interface to MANY CD/DVD drives, and they misrepresented their software. It doesn't properly handle drives with hardware error correction. We are now working on Hoster 3.312 to fix this, expected to release during October.
We used to sell a Shuttle based "Portable PC". However, working with the factory was a major pain. We buffered our customers from problems, but we had a LOT of problems getting reliable product we could ship.
