Comments on: Dell Adamo: All dressed up with nowhere to go?

Dell debuts a stylish, expensive new laptop it hopes will make it known for its design chops over its ability to sell a low-cost PC.

[Get_a_life_Leo]

Very nice looking machine, but $2000 is steep for a laptop - even an Apple laptop.

[Dalmatian28]

I totally agree with you! I don't care which OS you put on it or even if you put all three together....it is still not worth that much money. The processor is a nothing more but a joke! How can you expect to get anything done on Laptop that uses 1.4 Ghz processor. I have Latitude E6400 that runs at 2.53 GHz and it still feels like it runs slow! That is just inadequate even for netbook that cost $400.00! If you buy Asus 1000 HE you will get almost same performance and appearance plus you will save $1,600. Dell got everything wrong this time....from specs to the price, nothing seems to fit. The design is the only positive side that I can see so far. OK...DDR3 memory and SSD is also good but that is now standard. HaHa...Dell tried to pull of "Apple's trick" when even Apple is loosing market share left and right! Brave but very very stupid!

[Splashes]

I'm not trying to be snarky -- I'm honestly befuddled, so will someone please explain to me why (other than bragging rights) anyone would pay $2000 for an Adamo instead of $1000 for a similarly spec'd Vaio, when 98% of the user experience is identical (the OS & apps)?

At least MacBook owners can point to superior OS & apps as justification for a higher price.

[CrashPad63]

Not to be snarky Mac Owners have nothing superior to point at that is better. Just an overpriced laptop with very limited options.

[schmov17]

Crash, you've obviously never used a Mac

[CrashPad63]

schmov17, yes I have. My message is use what you like. All OS are coded by humans, as such all have there instabilities and exploits.

[Seaspray0]

Splashes. Only in your opinion. In my opinion, microsoft has a superior OS and apps. And since it's all subjective, based on the individual, I am just as right as you are.

[jabberwolf]

schmov17
Obviously you only use OSX.
If you used both, you'd know mac users are always scrambling to find a barely comparible app that they need that doesnt compare to the one running on windows that everyone else has.

That or trying to justify why you never need that application in the first place, and try to belittle everyone else because you yourself cant function while others can.

E.G : Autodesk, 3d Max, CS4 all run great in 64 bit mode in 64 bit windows with large files for professional use.
These are just a few examples and on the music and video editing scene OSX users flock to only a few programs and make claims that they only need those few.

[xcopy]

@splashed

"At least MacBook owners can point to superior OS & apps as justification for a higher price."

Come on, the only people that believe that are sycophantic fanboys. There's no justification, EVER, for apple's pricing..

That said, Dell has gone off the rails and is trying to mimic apple. All style, high price, inferior substance. Exactly like apple... What a sad day...

[brian.lee]

Actually Apples OS is superior and their hardware used to be superior interms of quality but they're slipping ever since they went mainstream. Ask anyone who's used actual Sun hardware and Solaris and they'll tell you it's better than Linux on a regular Dell server. I recently bought an HP laptop with Vista 64-Bit Home Premium it had 4Gigs of ram and I can say I've seen more than my share of blue screens, random crashes, crashes when trying to wake from Hibernation. It's also extremely slow, even with Aero turned off I'd take Xp over vista anyday it's just too bad they don't sell it. There's a reason netbooks ship with XP Home and not Vista

[lionel_menchaca]

If you're interested, we just posted two videos on Direct2Dell here: http://bitly.com/sVFdG.

Thanks,
LionelatDell

[FearNo1]

It looks OK. But it should have been a 13in laptop. It should also have had a slot loading DVD -/+ RW drive. The 700m still is Dell's best looking laptop, which I bought years ago for $750. The adamo is not worth $2K.

[xcopy]

Lionel,

You guys are smoking crack.. Many people liked Dell because the machines had value. Great hardware and functionality, great prices, and Steve Jobs and iSheep were no where to be found.

You've been cutting back on options, features, and raising prices (i.e., decreasing value). It's looks like you missed the boat on this one...

My bet, economy aside, this is over priced thing is DOA......

[sciontcya]

Give it up.
A long-haired model ain't gonna sell a DULL.
AS Mr. Ballmer said, who's going to buy an expensive Apple-labeled product in this economy...
Well, they will and are, but not an expensive DULL.
Nice models - the ones with hair...

[Splashes]

By the way, if you haven't checked out the Adamo website, I highly recommend it for the entertainment value, if nothing else. It had *me* laughing, anyway.

http://www.adamobydell.com/us

Not sure, but I think they're advertising perfume or a soap opera.

[blusky08]

Yeah, the website is hilarious!
It looks like an ad for Dolce Gabbana. Totally corny and over the top.

[VT808]

So it's an all aluminum body, and a glass display. So it's a unibody-Dell rip off of a MacBook & MacBook Pros?!? I like they way Dell put their own spin on it. On the video provided by "LionelatDell" they have the foreign design guy talking specs hoping that sophistication and art will envelope those "Indie" types who will spend $2,000 plus to make them look hip at the local Starbucks. These are the same kind of people who will pay a premium for Apple products, but like "Splashes" puts it "At least MacBook owners can point to superior OS & apps as justification for a higher price".

[CrashPad63]

Why is everything a ripoff to you fanbois. My God theyve been machining parts for a century or better and some how now its Apple's? Give us a break.

[blusky08]

For those vain enough to buy this just to look hip at the local Starbucks, this won't even garner a passing glance.
Any aluminum Macbook will draw more attention than this--if that's what you're looking for.

[concern37]

nice price for dell /but not for me! what is the real value?? is this just glamour?

[ecotony]

meh.

[Sithembewena]

C'mon guys get agrip! This thing is hot. But unless Dell starts offering other OSes than Windows (specifically Ubuntu/ OpenSUSE) on top offerings, they can forget about my patronage for now. It would take a lot to make me buy a Windows laptop again - and at that price it's near impossible i would bother.

[kelmon]

Somehow, I don't think you are Dell's target market...

[CrashPad63]

Youre not very observant. They do offer Ubuntu as an option on a large portion of their products.

[sythara]

Why would they need to offer Ubuntu when you can download and slap it onto a bootable flash drive and put it on yourself? I bet it'd save you few hundred bucks Dell would charge you for.

[viper396]

@sythara, your response is a prime example of why Linux never gains a significant desktop marketshare. You live under the self made delusion that just because you live and breath computers so does everyone else. Many people are simply not cut out to download Ubunto then "slap it onto a bootable flash drive and put it on themselves". Most people do not compile their own apps and drivers. Most people know very little about the underworkings of a computer OS. A free OS mean absolutely squat to many people if they have to install and configure everything themselves. The truth is, someone who would actually spend $2K on a laptop probable just wants to use it, they are unlikely to turn around and install another OS themselves then spend hours fiddling with everything.

As another person noted, you are not the target market.

[Seaspray0]

Sythara, I'm curious... have you ever tried this? Are there any issues with making a flash drive bootable?

[pithenumber]

@viper
what?!?! you don't need to compile apps for Linux anymore
those package managers make getting apps for Linux really easy
I still prefer to compile :)

@Seaspray
I have had no problems yet with making a bootable flash drive
or you could simply use a live cd instead of a live usb to install ubuntu and other linux flavours

[bleech]

They´d better change the name.
It is actually the artistic name of a [quite] cheesy italian soft pop singer.
Not good remembrances for a *hip* product [and neither is the Air for Apple, which for most spanish natives has more to do with sanitary towels and intimate hygiene than "lightness"].

[Seaspray0]

Thanks for providing that information... but I wouldn't want it to be the conversation at the dinner table. I'd throw up.

[sflocal]

It's almost hurts to watch their advertisement. $2k for a glorified Windows machine? I presume they are trying to make more of a fashion statement and appear "hip" to the community. Good luck Dell. This is what happens when you miss the train. By the time you arrive, the crowd has already left.

[CrashPad63]

So many Linux and Apple fanbois in here, like a bunch of gnats. Get over yourselves. All Apple computers are overpriced. And Linux offers limiterd solutions. Only Windows offer the best in software for solutions, compatibility and user ease.

[csoccer1]

@crashpad63

Windows obviously has more hardware and software choices, but it doesn't have the best in software solutions or user ease. If you use iLife, iWork, or even Final Cut you will see OSX has best in software solutions and user ease. These applications do the most complicated things while the user only has to click one or two buttons. And don't get me started on the Windows Live Essentials pack, that shouldn't even be touted on Microsoft's commercials (it's such a joke).

[bleech]

They´d better change the name.
It is actually the artistic name of a [quite] cheesy italian soft pop singer.
Not good remembrances for a *hip* product [and neither is the Air for Apple, which for most spanish natives has more to do with sanitary towels and intimate hygiene than "lightness"].

[ofmyony]

Do any guys dare carry this thing. It screams Unitop, get use to stares if you dare take the plunge. A unisex laptop that has the power to underwhelm.

The HP MiniNote would crush this thing in a Prizefight. I crush you I crush you the MiniNote said.

Is Michelle Dell saying something here?

Battery should last 36 hours on 15 minute charge. This is for people who bite.

[Core_M]

There is no doubt that it's a beautiful laptop, but I'd never have one - nor would I ever own an Apple product for that matter. This complete trend of form over functionality truly does baffle me. Then again, that's probably the engineer in me saying that more than anything else.

I'd ask how well it performs, but that's so far from the point that I don't even think it matters in this case. I do love Dell, but I'll take a Latitude any day... And in fact do every day.

[dennisl59]

This is the Laptop equivalent of the Toyota Tundra or the "New" Camaro launch.

Wrong Product, Wrong Price, Wrong Time.

Hey, anyone have a spare TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS LAYING AROUND?. No? You could always put it on the DELL Credit Card.

Thank You.

[dennisl59]

Know that I thought about it...Dell should have waited and launched this system with Windows 7.

[jean.luc.picard]

Lipstick on a pig!

[Seaspray0]

You must be looking for applerocks1996.

[The_happy_switcher]

@ Seaspray: No, they sound like another informed user.

[kelmon]

Stupid question but why the insistence of comparing the Dell Adamo to the MacBook Air? Given the differences between the Windows and Macintosh platforms such that switching between the two is generally impractical, does it not make more sense to compare this computer with the Adamo's direct competitors, such as the HP Voodoo Envy 133 or Lenovo X301? I realise that the MacBook Air is the system that generates the most interest but this does make the article less useful.

Personally, I think Dell has done a very good job on the laptop design itself but now it needs to address the specifications and price. Compared to its competitors a Core 2 Duo 1.2GHz processor is hardly going to make it an attractive option and the high price doesn't help matters. The HP, for example, provides a 1.6GHz processor and costs $100 less whilst arguably being better looking. That's the sort of thing that Dell has to compete with and not the MacBook Air...

[csoccer1]

You got it all wrong. The Adamo is a Fashion ultra-portable laptop. The only other Fashion/lifestyle laptop in this price range is the Macbook Air. The VooDoo is too thick and not marketed as a fashionable computer. The Lenovo is extremely ugly. That's why the Macbook Air is the only competitor to the Adamo.

[sythara]

Holy crap, the website design is atrocious(sp). I am really speechless. How is this a website for a laptop?

Anyway. Let me get something straight here. When Apple release an all body aluminum laptop everyone cheered on how environmentally friendly and awesome Apple is. When Dell does it, everyone says its crap and hates it.

When Apple started to release "preppy" looking laptops a while back, everyone cheered on how futuristic and progressive it looked (especially folks who hang out in coffee shops in san fransisco); but now when one of the largest windows based computer retailer does the same, everyone bashes it.

when... ugh whats the point. This is like buying a honda civic that has been factory riced with a shopping cart spoiler, composite "not so" racing wheels, and a body kit. Why would you pay more for a laptop that looks nice on your shelf when you can buy one that doe snot have all the pretty lights and flashy body but does the job better.

I understand making desktop PCs look cool by doing your own work on the case, but a laptop just needs to be left alone and made into most practical piece of equipment, and most efficent.... but I digress...

[Seaspray0]

I agree. Brand name does not make something cool or uncool.

[csoccer1]

If i'm going to take out my laptop, it better look and feel nice. I don't know, that's just me, but I can't stand heavy ugly laptops! And how is Dell environmentally friendly when they encase the Adamo in a huge, plastic case? I kind of laughed when I saw the un-boxing, because Dell was criticizing Apple on how they really aren't eco-friendly and Dell is, yet they ship their products in plastic!

[CDubber]

Sorry Dell. You destroyed your brand by becoming a bottom-feeder manufacturer for cheapskates. Now you expect to score in the premium market? Not gonna happen.

@CrashPad63: Astroturf Different.

[kentonr]

@CrashPad63

<i>Only Windows offer the best in software for solutions, compatibility and user ease.</i>

Seriously. Have you taken your meds today?

[Seaspray0]

kentornr. Your opinion on what's the best only applies to you. Everyone is different, so everyone's needs are different. Neither you nor CrashPad can claim any one OS is best for everyone.

[czmyt]

Four pounds is kind of heavy for an ultraslim notebook like this. How is this notebook as good as their own Dell Latitude E4200 that weights only 2.2 pounds and has otherwise similar specs.?