Comments on: Dell Adamo to launch today- is sexy and thin worth it in today’s economy?

By: Vivek - The Technicist

Vivek - The Technicist — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:18:02 +0000

Why is it so heavy? Its carved out of aluminum, its one of the thinnest laptops on the market, and it doesn’t have a dedicated graphics card/associated cooling, an optical drive, or a mechanical hard drive for gods sake. Is the case lined with lead or something?

This is to say nothing of the price ($200 more than the faster MBA…wow, way to bring the value quotient in a terrible economy, Dell) or the performance/lack thereof (this thing is on par with most 2lb ultraportables, need I say more?).

By: Justin Case

Justin Case — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:35:13 +0000

It is more expensive and slower than the MBA. The ethernet port and the extra USB is not enough.

It looks better when it’s not running on that slow CPU and slow graphics system – and that’s a shame.

By: drphysx

drphysx — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:43:44 +0000

Frankly, I’d rather get a MacBook Air.

The Adamo is too heavy and nice design on the outside is nothing without a nicely designed operating system.

Somehow I also feel that Dell is not able to make computers with good battery life.
My Latitude XT has 6-8hours with the extra battery whereas HP claims 15hours for its 2730p and even without the extra battery, the 2730p spec sheet claims the same runtime that my Dell needs two batteries for.

Sorry, but I’m not impressed at all. The Adamo may be the only computer that can challenge an Apple in terms of design, but still it’s nothing special.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:33:30 +0000

@Heavyharmonies: I don’t believe there is an HDD option which is one of the reasons it costs so much.

It’s certainly one of the nicest looking laptops I’ve ever seen but it weighs too much and the 1.2/1.4Ghz C2D processor options are too slow for 2009. Nice to see them hiding/getting rid of all those awful Intel/Windows stickers.

@Kevin: I agree that laptops that cost more because of their size/looks are unlikely to sell well at the moment but I’d question whether they ever really sell that well compared to other laptops. It would be interesting to see some numbers.

By: Heavyharmonies

Heavyharmonies — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:25:10 +0000

Too heavy. Too expensive.

Of course if the extra weight is due to a 24-hour battery, then ok. ;)

Pretty though. I hope to heck at least one of the configs is SSD rather than HDD, otherwise FAIL.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:01:09 +0000

I think it’s a tough sell in this economy. I wish I had sales numbers to look at for the devices in this class, i.e.: MBA, Samsung X360/x460, Lenovo X301, etc… my guess would be that traditional value-based notebooks would be outselling them by an order of magnitude. Looks like a nice notebook though.