Good news: Dell Adamo $500 cheaper. Bad news: It's $1,499
Tempted to upgrade yet?
(Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET)For those tempted to give in to Dell's vision of thin-and-sort-of-light luxury, the Dell Adamo laptop has been lowered in price by half a thousand dollars; $1,499 gets you the 1.2GHz Core 2 Duo version of the 13.4-inch aluminum laptop with a 128GB solid-state drive, while $2,299 gets you a 1.4GHz processor, 2 extra gigabytes of RAM, and mobile broadband connectivity. You can still have your choice of pearl or onyx.
Suddenly the MacBook Air seems like a pretty good deal at $1,499 with a 1.83GHz Core 2 Duo and 120GB hard drive, or $1,799 with a 128GB SSD and 2.13 GHz processor--and, might we add, GeForce 9400M graphics.
All Dell needs to do now is lower the price by another $500, and we've got a quasi-deal.
In our review of the Adamo, we liked the design but made note of the relatively exorbitant price. Have any of you bought an Adamo? In this climate of ever-lowering laptop and Netbook prices, would a price drop like this convince you at all?
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Let alone the fact that if a laptop can be considered a masterpiece of craftmanship, that'sthe Macbook Air, not the Dell Adamo, there's no match.
Both the macbook air and the adamo are a step in the wrong direction. If I want a crap-computer that is small, I'll pay 300 dollars, not 1500.
- by bobbyfly16 July 22, 2009 2:31 PM PDT
- Why get a Macbook Air when the regular is the same price, but much better?
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