Comments on: Dell's Adamo Takes a Page From the Apple Playbook

By: yash

yash — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:04:00 +0000

exactly! add to that, price of ethernet port adapter, a USB hub if you wish and then see what the numbers say.

By: yash

yash — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:02:22 +0000

I totally agree with your comment “For consumers in the market for a $1,500 laptop, an extra $500 is chump change, and they probably care about design.” Users can look two ways about this, if you want performance, go get a fat ugly performance laptop. if you want to save money, get a netbook.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:28:13 +0000

for me, macbook is the real winner for laptop. design and performance is great

By: Dell vs Macbook, Buscador de Numeros Celulares

Dell vs Macbook, Buscador de Numeros Celulares — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:38:23 +0000

[...] Dell’s Adamo Takes a Page From the Apple Playbook [...]

By: Tim F.

Tim F. — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:30:48 +0000

Yes, that was a damn odd, completely made up comment, wasn’t it, sfmitch?

Author, if the heads or platter (separated by mere microns) were to skip, the odds are nearly 100% that the heads would catastrophically destroy all the data on the drive. Have you been reading any stories lately about hard drive spontaneously eating themselves in large numbers? Or are you confused by misinformed blog posters talking about HD-based music players skipping while running versus flash players? This is a myth. A HD-based player might skip because the speed of read/write can be hindered by moving across the disk to various scattered sectors, hence using RAM buffers. A skipping hard drive is a faulty, dead hard drive. They aren’t “prone” to skip.

I’d be more concerned about the limited life of Flash read/writes versus a skipping hard drive.

By: Neil Anderson

Neil Anderson — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:16:34 +0000

Bet they wish it could run Mac OS X.

By: jbelkin

jbelkin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:46:11 +0000

Dell’s 20 year old users call it Dell Hell … just because they are twittering does not mean anything because Dell buyers buy on price alone, anything priced above $499 means it’s priced too high for Dell buyers. This is doomed as is Dell.

By: bmovie

bmovie — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:21:31 +0000

A Damned ’0″!
Caterpillar just laid off 2,000 employees and deciding between either Onyx or Pearl to put inside a manila envelope to bring into the conference room will guarantee first place on the next round of layoffs. Why bother with ram, processor speed and operating system when flashing Onyx or Pearl is what “A Damned ’0″” is all it is about. Wait, if you never open it up or turn it on, Dell can claim it’s even greener than a Mac!

By: Parkite

Parkite — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:09:53 +0000

Yes, but the Adamo has an SSD vs. HDD on the Air you reference. Big difference in price.

By: Gadget Sleuth

Gadget Sleuth — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:56:41 +0000

Heh…I’ve talked to many people who really don’t like Dell anymore, and claim their PC’s and customer service have gone way downhill of late. Is this article a paid ad of some kind, perhaps?

By: rpv

rpv — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:33:57 +0000

Indeed Macbook Air is so much better value!

By: Sachin

Sachin — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:55:56 +0000

Will I be able to install Mac OSx on Adamo? No….I have both Mac and Windows on my MBA :-)

By: sfmitch

sfmitch — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:53:26 +0000

Non-SSD drives are now skip-prone? News to me.

The Macbook Air is $1799 with the 1.6GHz C2D processor and 120GB Hard drive. $200 less and 1/3 faster clock speed.

By: C

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:04:56 +0000

I checked out Dell.com and there’s a huge ad on the front page.

By: Fernando

Fernando — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:16:28 +0000

Dell might’ve taken a page from the apple playbook with the design of the Adamo, however, it should look at taking a page out of Apple’s marketing playbook as well. The Dell.com home page does not mention the Adamo anywhere.

How can you launch a product and then not promote it on your own site? Apple would never make such a blunder.

By: C

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:11:52 +0000

@Om

Have to agree with Jose. Maybe for people utterly immersed in the tech world OS is king, but aside from the uber-loyal Mac crowd, I don’t think your average consumer is all that hung up on the operating system. As long as you can do what you want to do, it’s not that big a deal either way.