Dell Adamo available for online ordering in the US
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted March 19th 2009 10:34AM
posted March 19th 2009 10:34AM
In case you missed it, Engadget VIP Club cardholders, the tasteful and elegant Dell Adamo is available for online orders in the US now -- not just those other countries overseas with long names that are hard to pronounce. With model names like Admire (1.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB memory, and a 128GB SSD -- starting at $1,999) and later-confirmed Desire (1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB memory, and mobile broadband, also sporting a 128GB SSD -- starting at $2,699) the company's definitely reinforcing the laptop's savoir faire. Options include the "Jet Setter" package (with external DVD-RW) and the "Entrepreneur" (with external 250GB HDD). Available in Pearl and Onyx -- not that the suckers flying coach will be able to tell the difference.
@rick: Do you have proofs for the "overpricing"?
I hate to jump on the price gouge bandwagon, but sheesh. For a 1.2GHz proc, less than 3gb of RAM and less than 200gb of hard drive space, doesn't $2k seem really steep? Battery life and sleekness aside, that's almost beyond Apple pricing.
it's almost as if (and this is a reply to half the preceding comments, too...) it's almost as if apple's MBA price was reasonable all along, if when a major competitor brings out a competing product it's priced similarly--or beyond?
where IS that $1k dell everyone presumed it or some other mfgr would bring out that would match or surpass all the MBA specs? It's been a year for them to try, hasn't it?
in the spirit of full disclosure: I am NOT a MBA owner, though i admire the machine. I just like to see rationality sustained in public discourse.
@rtdunham: You're starting to get it, but really, its nothing new. Look at the VooDoo Envy for another example, or exotic gamer PCs like Alienware before they were bought, and Falcon Northwest. When PC makers make a computer with the same amenities, build quality, and features of Apple products, they cost in the same neighborhood, and often more.
Of course Apple can make a less expensive portable. It would be less nice, and they choose not to.
Of course PC makers can make a better laptop. It will cost a lot more, like Apple's, and they [usually] choose not to. When they do make a premium product, it illustrates just how hard it is for Apple to make the products they do, but most people never end up putting the pieces together.
Sorry, but no way would I spend that kind of money & be stuck with Vista, Windows 7 or any version of internet explorer...
Apple is overpriced? Really. Well lets break it down.
Your wintel box is generic that runs on an OS that it license from MS.
No worries about keeping that behemoth of and OS up to date cause you don't spend one fucking dime. And the rest of the usual suspects in the wintel box are bought off the shelf.
However, Apple makes its own OS and it design and builds its own computer. Expensive yes, but you get one hell of a product. With great re-sale value.
The wintel box is like a guy having a restaurant where everthing is pre-made and comes from Sam's Club. Whereas Apple is the guy that went to Le Cordon Blue and makes all his shit from scratch.
Apple doesn't make ALL its shit but most of it they do. Therein lies the price difference. It takes a brave company like Apple to do what they do. And them trolls on Wall Street wish Apple would cave in and be like all the rest of the pussies pimpin MS's OS and churn out drone systems.
But they ain't.
Viva Apple!
haha "Viva Apple!" look at you
I know it's a "looker", but giving CONFIGURATIONS names like those is just wrong.
Wait for the 1st of Aplil Dell. Your fooling around too early. Nice one though :)
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You wouldnt be stuck with any of those.....?