For months, Dell has been teasing a new laptop that everyone is certain “to fall in love with.” The new PC, aptly named Adamo, is sleek, stylish, and slim — three accolades for which any slave to trendiness would willingly perish.
So, what’s the story on Adamo? You’ll remember the uproar over the MacBook Air — the super-light, super-slim piece of Apple eye candy that fits inside of a manilla envelope (as advertised on TV just over a year ago).
The Air got people wanting more & less at the same time: more fashion, more envy, less to carry. It catered to a different crowd — The Design Freaks. (And by that, I don’t mean the “we do-design-work-and-need-serious-hardware-with-lots-of-RAM-to-power-it” people.)
Rising to the occasion, Dell decided it was time for a “product to demonstrate Dell’s commitment to upgrading the level of design in its products,” said Stephen Baker, an analyst for the NPD Group who keeps tabs on the electronics retail and PC industries. For this product, Dell has done a majority of their haute couture print advertisement for the product in magazines like InStyle, Vogue and Cosmo. Adamo, in short, is Dell’s fashionable response to the MacBook Air.
What does this mean to you, PC fashionista? You can expect to pay between $1,999 and $2,699, which includes mobile broadband and a 1.4GHz Intel Core Duo processor. The Adamo weighs 4 pounds, is 0.65 inches thick, measures 13.03 by 9.5 inches, and promises 5-plus hours of battery life. (The 13.3-inch MacBook Air, weighs 3 pounds and measures .76 by 8.94 by 12.8 inches — averages about 2.5 hours of battery life.)
Right now, there are two color choices for the Adamo, Pearl or Onyx — and yes, both are very pretty. Being one of those “I-really-only-care-how-this-computer-looks” types, there’s a good chance that I would probably buy Adamo if I had the extra cash lying around. Whether it meets your performance needs or not, it’s definitely worth a look!
That’s all for now, TTYL!
