Pros & Cons
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- Fully rugged, with IP66 rating
- Sunlight-readable, glove-touch-capable screen
- Numerous expansion options
- Swappable batteries and storage drive
- Three-year warranty
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- Expensive
- Hefty
- Middling battery life with standard batteries
Getac F110 (G7, 2025) Specs
| Boot Drive Capacity (as Tested) | 1 |
| Boot Drive Type | SSD |
| Class | Detachable 2-in-1 |
| Class | Rugged |
| Dimensions (HWD) | 0.98 by 12.4 by 8.15 inches |
| Graphics Processor | Intel UHD Graphics |
| Native Display Resolution | 1920 by 1080 |
| Operating System | Windows 11 Pro |
| Panel Technology | IPS |
| Processor | Intel Core i7-1365U |
| Processor Speed | 1.8 |
| RAM (as Tested) | 32 |
| Screen Refresh Rate | 60 |
| Screen Size | 11.6 |
| Tested Battery Life (Hours:Minutes) | 11:06 |
| Touch Screen | |
| Variable Refresh Support | None |
| Weight | 3.29 |
| Wireless Networking | 802.11ax |
| Wireless Networking | Bluetooth 5.3 |
While an Apple iPad Air works well around the house, don’t expect it to survive six-foot drops, heavy rain, or extreme temperatures. Enter the Getac F110 G7 (starts at $2,356; approximately $4,730 as tested), a fully rugged Windows tablet designed to endure the harshest conditions without too much performance compromise versus a standard laptop. With its sunlight-readable screen, glove-touch support, dedicated GPS, cellular connectivity, and robust security, it’s perfectly suited for demanding fieldwork. Getac’s confidence is reflected by an impressive three-year warranty. All that taken together, the Getac F110 earns our Editors' Choice award for rugged Windows tablets.
Design: Rugged Enough to Handle the Roughest Day
Fully rugged and built to MIL-STD-810H testing standards, the Getac F110 can endure environments that would TKO ordinary electronics, including temperatures ranging from -29 to 145 degrees F. It can even be customized for salt-fog resistance in maritime applications. While its IP66 rating doesn't make it fully waterproof (for that, an IP67 rating is required), it can survive dousing by powerful water jets. Furthermore, the F110 also holds MIL-STD-461G certification, guaranteeing electromagnetic compatibility.
(Credit: Joseph Maldonado)Getac’s impressive protection will lend itself well to industries such as defense, utilities, manufacturing, and oil and gas. Although it doesn’t feature the most cutting-edge silicon—that's common, with rugged devices like this—its 13th Gen Intel Core U-class processor and up to 32GB of RAM provide performance similar to a standard business laptop, with more than enough power for its intended applications.
This hefty 3.3-pound slab prioritizes durability over sleekness, at 0.98 by 12.4 by 8.2 inches. Its thick plastic outer casing is impervious to flex. Screws on the front ensure the screen remains elevated and protected when placed flat on a surface.
(Credit: Joseph Maldonado)The F110 offers an impressive array of physical connections for a tablet. On the left edge, it features a Thunderbolt 4 (USB-C) port, a USB 3.2 Type-A port, and a 3.5mm audio jack, all protected by a dust cover. The top edge houses an expansion slot, which in this unit includes a serial port and an Ethernet jack. This slot can be customized to include a 1D/2D imager barcode reader, a USB 2.0 port, or a MicroSD card slot, depending on your needs.
(Credit: Joseph Maldonado)You'll find more configurability on the right edge; our unit has a fingerprint reader, but it can also be outfitted with an HF RFID reader. Our machine also has Getac's optional SmartCard reader on the back. The infrared webcam provides another password-free login option.
The F110 is charged via a traditional DC-in jack on the left edge. Getac also provides alternative charging options, including Thunderbolt 4, a DC-to-DC vehicle adapter, and an office docking station. Standard connectivity features include Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3, with optional upgrades like dual-SIM 4G LTE or 5G mobile broadband. Dedicated GPS functionality is available, as well.
Using the Getac F110: Bulky, But Well Protected
How much abuse can the Getac F110 take? My first and second thoughts are: a lot, scientifically speaking. This tablet’s rock-solid construction inspires confidence in its ability to withstand the elements, rough handling, and maybe even the next apocalypse (though we worry about Wi-Fi access if that happens).
We classify ultraportable laptops as three pounds or less, making the Getac's 3.3 pounds heavy for a tablet-only device. It can, however, become a laptop when attached to Getac's optional detachable keyboard, which we didn’t get to test. Other accessories include a rotating hand strap with a kickstand, a hard handle, and a shoulder strap. Vehicle-mounting solutions are also offered.
The F110’s 11.6-inch, 1,920-by-1,080-pixel display features a traditional 16:9 aspect ratio, which is narrower than the squarer 16:10 or 3:2 screens often found in consumer tablets. That said, this is no ordinary screen, boasting glove-touch functionality and an impressive peak brightness rating of 1,200 nits, ensuring visibility in direct sunlight. Additionally, it includes a mode with ultra-low brightness to preserve your night vision in pitch-dark environments.
(Credit: Joseph Maldonado)Our unit includes the optional digitizer for use with the active stylus, which is conveniently attached via a lanyard and slots between the batteries on the back. I found its hover functionality worked well, and its single button operates smoothly. While I didn’t notice any parallax issues, the screen’s lackluster color reproduction makes it unsuitable for artistic use, graphic design, or entertainment. The anemic mono speaker on the front further discourages entertainment use. (Of course, all that is not what this kind of tablet is about.)
(Credit: Joseph Maldonado)The F110 features four programmable buttons right of the screen that can be customized in the Getac G-Manager app. These buttons can perform functions such as launching the camera, adjusting volume or screen brightness, toggling daylight or night vision modes, or opening apps. Using the app, you can also configure the buttons’ faint red backlighting and the brightness of the status indicators below the display. Likewise, the app allows for switching touchscreen modes (finger, glove, or stylus) and selecting power profiles.
The front 5MP webcam offers very good sharpness, and it quickly adjusted exposure to changing lighting as I walked between rooms. The 8MP rear camera suffices for quick field photos, but even a basic smartphone does worlds better.
(Credit: Joseph Maldonado)Though the F110 remained cool and usually operated quietly, its single cooling fan can be audible in quieter settings when the system is stressed. The G-Manager app provides limited fan control options.
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Performance Testing: Laptop-Like Speed From a Rugged Tablet
Our Getac F110 G7 demo model features an Intel Core i7-1365U processor (10 cores, 5.2GHz turbo), an Intel UHD integrated GPU, 32GB of memory, and a 1TB SSD. Base models start with a Core i5-1335U and 16GB of memory. Intel vPro Enterprise is available with select CPUs. Pricing depends on the channel you are purchasing Getac gear from, and the quantity purchased, making exact pricing comparisons difficult.
As we haven’t tested any ruggedized tablets recently, the F110 faced three rugged laptops: the Dell Pro Rugged 14, the Getac S510, and the fully rugged Panasonic Toughbook 40 Mk2. We filled the last spot with a non-ruggedized Lenovo ThinkPad X9 14 Aura Edition to see how it performed against a regular business clamshell machine.
Productivity and Content Creation Tests
We run the same general productivity benchmarks across both mobile and desktop systems. Our first test is UL's PCMark 10, which simulates a variety of real-world productivity and office workflows to measure overall system performance and also includes a storage subtest for the primary drive.
The next few such benchmarks stress the CPU, using all available cores and threads to rate a PC's suitability for processor-intensive workloads. All of these tests are also cross-platform, working comparatively across x86, Arm64, and Mac M-series processors. Maxon's Cinebench 2024 uses the company's Redshift engine to render a complex image using the CPU or GPU. We run the multi-core CPU benchmark that works across all of a processor's cores and threads—the more powerful the chip, the higher the score—and its single-core variant.
Geekbench 6.3 Pro from Primate Labs simulates popular apps ranging from PDF rendering and speech recognition to machine learning. We record its Multi-Core and Single-Core scores; higher numbers are better. Our last CPU stress test is the open-source video transcoder HandBrake 1.8, which converts a 12-minute video clip from 4K to 1080p resolution; lower times are better.
Next, we run one cross-platform benchmark on all systems: Adobe Photoshop 2024, using the 1.2.20 version of the testing utility PugetBench for Creators by Puget Systems. This test rates a PC's performance for content creation and multimedia applications. PugetBench is an automated extension that executes a variety of general and GPU-accelerated Photoshop tasks ranging from opening, rotating, resizing, and saving an image to applying masks, gradient fills, and filters.
The Getac tablet exceeded the 4,000 points in PCMark 10 that we consider a baseline for a responsive, everyday use system. Despite lagging in the CPU tests, it unexpectedly outperformed the Core Ultra-equipped Getac S510 on several of them. It also did reasonably well in Photoshop. All told, expect it to handle any everyday office task with ease.
Graphics Tests
We challenge each reviewed system’s graphics with a bunch of animations or gaming simulations from UL's 3DMark test suite. The first two are Wild Life (1440p) and Wild Life Extreme (4K), which use the Vulkan graphics API to measure GPU speeds. The last two, Steel Nomad's regular (4K) and Light (1440p) subtests, focus on APIs more commonly used for game development, like Metal and DirectX 12 in addition to Vulkan, to assess gaming geometry and particle effects.
The Getac F110's older Intel UHD integrated graphics struggled in these tests, finishing last across the board. However, given the tablet's intended use, graphics performance is not a crucial factor.
Battery Life and Display Tests
We test each laptop and tablet's battery life by playing a locally stored 720p video file (the open-source Blender movie Tears of Steel) with display brightness at 50% and audio volume at 100%. We make sure the battery is fully charged before the test, with Wi-Fi and keyboard backlighting turned off.
To gauge display performance, we also use a Datacolor SpyderX Elite monitor calibration sensor and its Windows software to measure a laptop screen's color saturation—what percentage of the sRGB, Adobe RGB, and DCI-P3 color gamuts or palettes the display can show—and its 50% and peak brightness in nits (candelas per square meter).
Although the Getac’s battery life—11 hours and 6 minutes—didn’t stand out, note that we tested it with the standard 2,640mAh battery packs; the 4,200mAh packs we tested last time produced over 14 hours of life. Its screen is also quite bright at the 50% setting we use for testing.
For field use, the F110’s batteries are hot-swappable, so you won't need to power down the device between charges. The batteries drain simultaneously, not one after the other. Getac offers a field battery charger with two or eight bays to facilitate continuous use.
The Getac F110’s screen delivers the brightness expected of a rugged Windows device, though it falls slightly short of its 1,200-nit claim. Its color reproduction is limited, covering only 69% of the sRGB gamut and 52% of DCI-P3, but strong brightness and decent contrast prevent it from appearing overly washed out. Not shown in our charts, we measured the F110’s night-vision-mode screen brightness at an impressively low, but still legible, 1.6 nits.