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As a safety and production coordinator for the TV and film industry, Gary Humphries seems to find himself in the most remote and inhospitable places on earth. In October 2009, having received a call from the BBC Top Gear productions team, he headed off to Bolivia to drive the 1000 mile route from the Bolivian jungle to the coast of Chile to see if the route was viable. It was an amazing experience with mind blowing scenery and dramatic changes in environments.
The roads of Bolivia are infamous for their horrendous conditions with tarmac roads outside of La Paz being rare and roads inside the city being questionable. The dusty, rutted roads vibrate cars, people and equipment to pieces. Holes appear in roads for no apparent reason, as he found out to his cost.
The extreme cold sucks the life from batteries and the midday sun bakes equipment. Electrical items just give up. The mixture of altitude and cold contracts and expands sealed containers and metal objects. While dust covers every inch of the equipment.
Sadly to say, this led to the demise of his previous laptop. The constant ingress of dust, the extremes of temperature, constant vibration and ever present humidity caused the laptop on that reconnaissance trip to die. Seeing as on the second visit to Bolivia, he would need to plan routes and write reports while living out of a 4x4, he needed to have a serious rethink with regards to his laptop options.
After meeting James Munger-Styles from Blazepoint Limited at DSEi ‘09 and telling him of the dilemmas experienced during the previous reconnaissance trip in South America, he convinced Gary with his infectious enthusiasm that the ndura RUGGED range of products would be ideal for the task at hand. With its rugged design, swivel touch screen, highest possible dust ingress code and water resistant protection, Gary was confident that this rugged laptop would allow him to successfully complete his filming trip in Bolivia with Top Gear.