Dell's $2,000 Adamo laptop spotted
ADAMO MAY MEAN 'let's fall in love' in Latin, but getting to lay our hands all over Dell's new luxury laptop at SXSW last week, we discovered it was more a case of passing fancy.
The Dell Adamo is apparently the world's most anorexic laptop to date, weighing in at just 1.81 kg (4.0 lb), with a 13.4-inch, high definition, edge-to-edge 16:9 glass display all cased in a gleaming aluminum chassis. But when you wipe the drool from your mouth and pop the hood... well, it's a little disappointing.
At a whopping $2,000, the Adamo is more Wimpy than Big Mac, sporting clunky Vista Home Premium, a processor which falls short of the Mac Air (1.2 GHz or 1.4 GHz) and (wait for it) Intel integrated graphics. Yes, that's right, $2,000 sMACaroonies and no discrete graphics.
"I doubt anyone buying the Adamo intends to play Crysis on it," said an Intel spinner defending the laptop's GS45 chipset adding, "how would you make it so thin and light if you added a great big GPU into it?"
And here lies the crux of the problem. The Adamo may be sexy with its slim body and Spiderman-fonted keyboard, but Dell is supposed to be the Volvo of laptops; sturdy, functional, feature rich. The pretentiously-named Adamo Onxy, Desire and Admire models are akin to Volvo attempting to make flashy sports cars for rich old men hoping to pick up girls half their age. And makng them pay top dollar for the privilege.
Dell boasts its equivalent of a knock-off Louis Vitton handbag has "Five plus hours of battery life using Lithium-Polymer cells; and 40 Whr". 40Whr?! Really? C'mon Dell, pull the other one.
Also, if a person was style (rather than substance) conscious, why not just go for a $1,800 MacBook Air with faster Nvidia integrated graphics and a hipster-coveted Apple logo? It could just be because we're poor, but it eludes us why anyone would shell out $2,000 for a laptop whose graphical capabilities stretch to using Microsoft Powerpoint and Solitaire, even if it is outwardly gorgeous.
In short, Dell's Adamo makes us want to quote West Side Story: "I feel pretty and witty and gay".
And we'll have to give it an overall "meh" out of ten. And yes, "meh" is a technical term. µ
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If AMD ever come out with a thin and light reference design that includes a near top-end GPU capable of playing current games, Intel are going to be really screwed.
Its not even style over substance, but worse its stupidity over style and substance. Buy an Adama and be known as a tool by all..
I was anticipating this laptop and had signed up for their PR emails. When the price and specs were finally revealed my first reaction was they have got to be kidding.
My second reaction was. Dell needs to change their Adamo ad to "Prepare To Get Dumped".
I dislike Apple as a company but if I fancied a slim, light aluminum notebook i'd have to say the MacBook Air is the better deal.
I can understand why something that fits in your pocket needs to be slim but making a laptop slim makes it no easier to transport and you have to carry something around to raise it up to type comfortably on a desk.
Like the man said - style over substance.
I think I'm going to start manufacturing nice looking thin cases to put netbooks in for the fashion disabled who want to surf.
'The pretentiously-named Adamo Onxy, Desire and Admire models are akin to Volvo attempting to make flashy sports cars for rich old men hoping to pick up girls half their age.'
Anybody remember Roger Moore in the original Saint? He drove just such a Volvo and for exactly those reasons.
... and even more overpriced and underpowered than a macbook. meh indeed.
good product , very beautiful , I like this color very much!
at Tradestead , there are many kinds of such beautiful and powerful laptops and other good consumer electronics !
Nice name, Dell. Just A-Dam-O laptop that ain't any better than any other $500 laptop. Just because you charge $2000 doesn't make it a Mac!!