Dell teases new ultrathin Adamo XPS
By Paul Miller 
posted Sep 9th 2009 3:05PM
posted Sep 9th 2009 3:05PM
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Oh yes, because the previous Adamo was so good, why not make it skinnier and (most likely) suck more?
It's a Dell-Dell combination!
I bet it has an Atom, and costs $2499.99
That pic sure is sexxxxxxy though.
Couldn't agree more...
hey App4that, doesn't that mean Apple IS the devil?
oh fail me, I thought App4that meant the date, 9-9-09. Well, both work for me I guess.
That's awesome, but it's going to cost so much if they market it like they did with the last one. Hopefully they learned their lesson.
Why does everyone think that only Apple is allowed to charge premium for good design and build quality?
Apples Macbook Air was actually far cheaper with significantly better specs than the original Adamo. If this is anything like the original, it's going to cost a premium on top of the premium.
Exactly... The design/engineering was excellent... But they need to beef up it's processor, GPU, and SSD, and cut the price by 30%, and you'd have a winner.
Or you need to lower your expectations for using a nilla wafer for a computer.
Bring it to class, type papers, browse the web, and look dam good doing it. Maybe some light spreadsheet editing or graphics work.
Don't go playing games on this thing, then complain when it siezes up and leaves burns in your lap.
@Proud Japanese
Because only Apple users are starved of good quality at a good price. They've just come to accept it.
I really don't think these are geared towards regular nerds like us. They are for the people that have more money than brains, who want something that looks great while they check their facebook at starbucks.
"Don't go playing games on this thing, then complain when it siezes up and leaves burns in your lap."
The sad part is, for less money, with the newer Macbook Airs, you actually CAN play games at reasonable settings, unlike the Adamo with its lovely Intel X3100.
"but 9.99mm is pretty dang thin (thinner than an iPhone, in fact). "
That's what she said
*applause*
Happy 9/9/09 everyone!
whoa! what the hell is that?
is it even possible to make a laptop that thin without making it totally useless?
as the macbook air showed, the answer is no
That's damn good-looking. It may be too good-looking for me to afford.
It's a really long and thin version of something people regularly make self love...I mean fall in love with.
This is the tablet that Apple was supposed to announce today before they decided to host a suckfest.
This might fit that douche's jeans pocket in that Apple presentation today!
@vbtrash: Or up his ass.
It went from:
Two months ago: OMG, iTablet in September!!!
3 weeks ago: Oh well, at least we will get camera iPod Touchs
Today: FAIL
*Squealing with delight!*
They can do that?! OMG, OMG, OMG!!!
sloppy blogging "hope they didn't subcumb to atom" when it has been widely advertised as core2duo for quite some time.
You're a little slow, huh? How has a prototype that was just shown today been widely advertised as having a core2duo?
If they are going to release something like this it's no surprise that they are teasing it today.
I don't see them releasing something Atom based with XPS branding, but I can't see them going that thin with anything else.
Well if the case is entirely aluminum (probably) then some clever heat-piping could allow for a higher-end processor.
From Xavier over at Notebooks.com who claims to have had a no-pictures play with a working prototype:
http://www.notebooks.com/2009/09/09/dell-adamo-xps-a-9-99mm-thick-concept-notebook/
"The Dell Adamo XPS is an ultraportable-sized device and not a netbook" so I'm guessing it's a good chance it's not an Atom.
"The Adamo XPS has a full keyboard that flips away from the display." so I'm guessing it's not a tablet either.
if it doesnt run Atom i'd consider getting it.
I'll get it if it runs an i7
Dude, if this thing rocks an i7, it'll fry your... um.
Let's just say this would be one laptop that might just come with a disclaimer warning users not to run it on their LAPS.
wow a centimeter? But I'm guessing it has completely useless internals.
99.9% centimeter...
Common ULV. It has the XPS tag, they wouldn't ruin that name by using Atom right?
*Consumer* ULV
If we rename the VAIO X to VAIO XPS, does that me we get a ULV with it?
@Jacob: No, that meant "Come on", as in I'm hoping for it. Haha, funny that it turned out that way though.
Is it just me or that thing looks like tablet?
Looks like there's a seem running down the middle, and an indentation for a latch. So, I'm thinking notebook.
"Looks like there's a seem running down the middle, and an indentation for a latch. So, I'm thinking notebook." ~Hey Ya
I was thinking the same thing, but I looked a little closer, and that 'indentation' shows up on the bottom as well which makes me think it's actually a reflection. I first thought they were using the old illusionist trick of making things appear smaller by darkening parts and using a dark background, but now it's looking quite sleek. Let's just hope the price is down to Earth.
It's actually a really long stylus.
That made me chuckle:D
does it fit inside a manila envelope?
Fit in a manila envelope!? It'll cut through one!
So I guess this one will cost like $6999 right? Dell makes BITCHIN' student and business notebooks; I love them for that, but the Adamo is horseshit man.
Fitting in with the 9 theme, it'll be $9,999
That's Apple tablet. They rebrand it as Adamo coz they don't wanna release it today.
i owned a new macbook air for 4 days (rev b hhd). every time i played a youtube video (even in sd) the fans would rev up to 6200 rpm's and blast away. what good is a super portable if i can't even watch a youtube video on it? looking forward to the day when thinness will also equal doing popular applications like youtube watching (without costing a fortune). until then, i'll gladly use my 13" macbook pro
Yeah well, the OS X version of the Flash player is a bad joke.
Looks a like a spear to me
Its gotta be a tablet. No way you can make a folding laptop with keyboard that thin.
Something like a 6" Win7 tablet would be sweet, especially if it could handle HD video. Could be Dells attempt to pre-empt the supposed Apple tablet
Watch me poke a hole through the screen like it was a piece of paper.
techboner on the way
At 9.99mm? Hardly!
and they're announcing it on this day (9/9/09)? Is there a 9 theme going on today?
that was a good observation, you should recieve a prize for that
I call bullshit, I'm convinced that Dell is only currently capable of producing computers that don't look circa 1999
I remember when the first pics of adamo got "released" we all hoped and dreamed about a really sexy notebook we wouldn't have to be ashamed to use in public coffee shops (lets be realistic!!) or actually so we could actually say I'm a proud Dell Notebook user... but what we've got was like a nice sportscar with a volkswagen beetle engine and a price tag of a fancy sportscar... so in this case I've become realistic and I'll wait until that little dell is out...but it'll cost for sure 2000+bucks thats a pretty safe bet
looks cool
However to me (strength and ruggedness with a slim size/weight) is much more impressive.
Now if this was a thinkpad x200 X2 that was 9.9mm with Carbon fiber and high grade materials, then it would be different.
however if you sit on this, its gona be toast.
I wouldn't sit on any laptop (although I understand some make a living out of it).
OMG ITS 9.99mm and they released the info on 9.9.09 WHAT ARE WE TO DO !!!
It wouldn't be that thin unless it was using the Atom Z500, which has a 800 MHz clock speed and a 0.65 W TDP.
it looks EXACTLY like the air or a long, flat tampon.
A perfect computer for a ninja.
Only if it also comes in matt black.
I came in Matt Black....
it is still going to be another windows based machine.
And?
Trying to convince yourself that it's crap before you even know anything concrete about it?
If the teaser read Apple instead of dell and iSuck instead of Adamo then the world would rejoice. Stop talking shit about a product you dont know. For Dell, Adamo is luxury and XPS power, so prepare to be surprised.
WOW! That is amazingly thin. I hope Dell goes through with this and we get to see it in the near future. Hopefully Dell can bring a decent MacBook Air competitor to the table (not that there aren't any now).
Wow, imagine the clean cuts you can make in a cake with that thing!
If it is a clamshell device, I would honestly be scared to death of accidentally destroying it. That would mean each side would be about 5mm. I can easily see accidentally snapping or at least severely bending the chassis from even normal use (eg; say opening it from even slightly off-center grip on each side). From that standpoint alone I would bet it's tablet based.
Multitouch anyone?
You know how they were saying OLED screens are coming soon to laptops?
I'd say this is gonna be the first.
Who needs such a thin laptop?
sex me.
I guess Adamo is not a laptop line anymore. It's a jewelry line. Not for use as a computer, just for showing off.
Without any real specs, the ad looks like they're selling platinum jewelry with a price to match!
When they say "wafer-thin", they mean it's just an actual wafer. The heatsink and fan is optional and adds another 25mm to the thickness.
But pound anything hard enough, and it will flatten to 9.99mm... it'll end up 3x4 feet in dimensions, though, like a party-size pizza.
How thin can somebody possibly make a computer? You still need the LCD, keyboard, battery and some way to cool the CPU. Then there's the issue with strength... I'm very interested how this will turn out.
I've been a fan of Dell's new design direction since they starting focusing on aesthetics a bit more and this new Adamo XPS is likely to keep up the good design streak that they're on right now. They now need to really step it up in the marketing department and try to get themselves to a point where people enthusiastically anticipate new products from them they like MS and Apple. Big ask, I know but that's where they should be.
9.99 mm? Really?
A MacBook Pro is nearly 2.5X that thickness. A Macbook Air at its thickest is over 2X that thick. Why does that matter? Because like it or not, they're pretty much the gold standard for thin/light aluminum laptop designs. If this thing really is a full laptop with a hinged screen, it's either absolutely huge in surface area to make up for the lack of height (meaning 19+ inch screen), or woefully underpowered with some sort of super-ultra-low-voltage processor, or Dell has found a way to miraculously cool this thing without having it set your pants on fire. If it's a full-out no compromises 9.9mm thin laptop with a screen size that isn't absolutely ridiculously huge to spread out the internal components and keep them cool, then I'll be the first in line to apologize for ever having made fun of Dell and their designers/engineers.
Seems more likely that it's some sort of tablet, but even then it's an impressive design achievement. Consider this: an iPod Nano is 6.2mm thin.
Whatever it is, it's probably going to be pretty damn cool.
hahaha 9.99mm on 09/09/09 how classic~