The Dell Adamo is apparently the world's most anorexic laptop to date, weighing in at just 1.81 kg (4.0 lb), with a 13.4-inch, high definition, edge-to-edge 16:9 glass display all cased in a gleaming aluminum chassis. But when you wipe the drool from your mouth and pop the hood... well, it's a little disappointing.
At a whopping $2,000, the Adamo is more Wimpy than Big Mac, sporting clunky Vista Home Premium, a processor which falls short of the Mac Air (1.2 GHz or 1.4 GHz) and (wait for it) Intel integrated graphics. Yes, that's right, $2,000 sMACaroonies and no discrete graphics.
"I doubt anyone buying the Adamo intends to play Crysis on it," said an Intel spinner defending the laptop's GS45 chipset adding, "how would you make it so thin and light if you added a great big GPU into it?"
And here lies the crux of the problem. The Adamo may be sexy with its slim body and Spiderman-fonted keyboard, but Dell is supposed to be the Volvo of laptops; sturdy, functional, feature rich. The pretentiously-named Adamo Onxy, Desire and Admire models are akin to Volvo attempting to make flashy sports cars for rich old men hoping to pick up girls half their age. And makng them pay top dollar for the privilege.
Dell boasts its equivalent of a knock-off Louis Vitton handbag has "Five plus hours of battery life using Lithium-Polymer cells; and 40 Whr". 40Whr?! Really? C'mon Dell, pull the other one.
Also, if a person was style (rather than substance) conscious, why not just go for a $1,800 MacBook Air with faster Nvidia integrated graphics and a hipster-coveted Apple logo? It could just be because we're poor, but it eludes us why anyone would shell out $2,000 for a laptop whose graphical capabilities stretch to using Microsoft Powerpoint and Solitaire, even if it is outwardly gorgeous.
In short, Dell's Adamo makes us want to quote West Side Story: "I feel pretty and witty and gay".
And we'll have to give it an overall "meh" out of ten. And yes, "meh" is a technical term.
Article Source: www.theinquirer.net
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