Super-thin Dell Adamo XPS is Under 1cm Thick

[tayb]

[citation][nom]doc70[/nom]"the reigning champion, the Apple MacBook Air"....and who exactly decided that?..., Oh, yeah, the Apple fan who's writing the article... I'm sick of biased articles.Now go ahead and give your thumb down, like I give a f..k....[/citation]

Which one is better? Seriously. The Air has a 2.13GHz core 2 duo, 2GB ram, 9400m, and a 128GB SSD for $1,800. The Adamo and X301 are both woefully underpowered with slow processors and integrated GPUs and are somehow still outclassed in battery life (by a lot). Adamo is a little bit cheaper while the X301 is substantially more, for less. Not to mention the Air just flat out looks better than both of those machines. Try not to let your own bias get in the way.

 

[tayb]

[citation][nom]jeffunit[/nom]I fear that the "under 1cm thick" is a typo, and it is really under 1 inch thick. Do the math...[/citation]

I'm wondering the same thing. There are ~25mm in an inch so if this thing is 9.99mm it would be ~.4 of an inch thick. Just to put this into perspective the iPhone 3G is .48 inches thick. If they are measuring by the thinnest point it's possible but I have a hard time believing that at it's thickest point this laptop will be thinner than an iPhone. I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[perpetual98]

[citation][nom]tayb[/nom]Which one is better? Seriously. The Air has a 2.13GHz core 2 duo, 2GB ram, 9400m, and a 128GB SSD for $1,800. The Adamo and X301 are both woefully underpowered with slow processors and integrated GPUs and are somehow still outclassed in battery life (by a lot). Adamo is a little bit cheaper while the X301 is substantially more, for less. Not to mention the Air just flat out looks better than both of those machines. Try not to let your own bias get in the way.[/citation]

Are there more pictures out of the "new" one?

 

[Regulas]

The Adamo is the sexiest Windows laptop for this category. I checked out a review of the current Adamo, Dell claims a 5 hour battery (built in) but the reviewer got 2:45 hrs out of it playing video. I guess if you worked on a word processor the battery would be better. Still sexy though and pricey.
As for the rest of us I have been looking at a poor mans thin laptop by Acer ($550) with excellent battery life, 8hr. Will probably buy this for myself after 7 releases.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0029U1526/ref=s9_simz_gw_s1_p147_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=07ETX6R6K6AV2EFC2NRP&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846

 

[E7130]

[citation][nom]alvine[/nom]so you gonna buy this overpriced underpowered peace of hardware and walk around with a ruler showing your friends its millimeter short of being 1cm thick? gosh marketing these days[/citation]

That part of the article was referencing the older design...

 

[jacobdrj]

[citation][nom]JN77[/nom]🙂1. It needs a quad core processor2. It needs 8gb of ram3. It needs a blu ray burner4. the screen needs to be 1920x12805. It needs at least a 9 hour batteryand it needs to batch edit raw files and hd video on the road for me....I guess that takes me out of the running for this thing.[/citation]
Naw. I can't settle for a quad core. I need nothing less than a quad-socket with 4 6-core processors, and at least a tb of RAM...

 

[asdf634]

*Keeps refreshing Dell's website for a "$9.99 deal"...

 

[megahunter]

guys, they may have said this about the first notebooks,
its too expensive for being a bit thinner
but it may become popular in the future 😛

(poor command of english, i know but im brazilian, can you speak portuguese? kkkkkk [kidding])

 

[Bert R]

I understand the whole "make it light" idea. Really I do. But, it just seems like there is a point where it gets too thin. And under 1 cm fast approaches that threshold. I mean, what happens if you drop the thing?

 

[jn77]

[citation][nom]asdf634[/nom]*Keeps refreshing Dell's website for a "$9.99 deal"...[/citation]


That sounds even better.. HD video authoring on a 9.9cm labtop...

 

[Andraxxus]

It's so thin and most likely expensive.