Douglas Little's Adamo series: the most expensive snake you've seen glued to a laptop all week

While Dell's partnerships with MLB and OPI are content with merely printing new designs onto the laptop lid, creative director Douglas Little of D.L. & Co. took things a lot too far with this Swarovski Crystal-embedded sterling silver snake -- adorning an etched Adamo 13 lid. We can't decide if we're offended by the gaudy display, or incredibly impressed with how audacious it is, so we'll just leave our mouths hanging open and let you decide for yourself. What we do know is that it's part of a series of one-offs produced for Bergdorf Goodman retail in some capacity, and we're sure with a bit of recession-style haggling you should have no trouble squeezing one of these onto a second mortgage.

Douglas Little's Adamo series: the most expensive snake you've seen glued to a laptop this week

[DizWhiz Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:53PM]

But why? I mean..it's just....why?!?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:53PM]

Enough is enough! I've had it with these...

You get the point.

[BigD145 Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:57PM]

It could only fail harder if it were a swivel screen.

[logan Posted Oct 7th 2009 4:07PM]

Umm... how would you fit it into a case? I mean wouldn't one (I don't know who would buy it) want to protect it somehow? Oh I get it, if you can't put it in a case, you get to show off how much of a lame-ass you are ALL of the time.

[MisterMhz Posted Oct 7th 2009 4:05PM]

Whats up with the guys pants to the right in the background of that first pic???????

[MAS Posted Oct 7th 2009 4:06PM]

Obviously, he just took his head from out of his ass.

[Tagbert Posted Oct 7th 2009 4:14PM]

Atomic wedgie after he bid on the crap snake.

[MAS Posted Oct 7th 2009 4:05PM]

I think the snake is not very good. I have to keep telling myself it's not a coil of some old rope.

If you are going to go to the effort of making something so impractical---like sticking a fakaktah snake on a laptop---at least make it a nice looking snake!

[logan Posted Oct 7th 2009 4:11PM]

Look at these people! What a group of creative and deep intellectuals... WRECH! :P

[ArhcAngel Posted Oct 7th 2009 4:11PM]

Shouldn't this be Dell's Douglas Little Adamo & Eve edition?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 7th 2009 4:13PM]

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

They should arm this thing with an exploding battery! What is bad is someone sat there thinking "Damn this is an awesome idea!" and actually did it

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 7th 2009 4:12PM]

Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherf**king snakes on this motherf**king plane!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 7th 2009 4:15PM]

"I have had it with these motherf&%$#g snakes on this motherf&%$#g laptop!"

Samuel L.Jackson

[TikiTeko Posted Oct 7th 2009 4:21PM]

To Add Luxury to your life and computing you can choose among the following designs to sit on top of your new Adamo:

* Swarovski Crystal-embedded sterling silver Snake ($1350)

* Swarovski Crystal-embedded sterling silver Swirling Poop ($2560)

* Swarovski Crystal-embedded sterling silver Blue Whale Condom ($8900) - Exclusive from DELL!

[gerrrg Posted Oct 7th 2009 4:21PM]

Dell...what happened?

Why are you working the upper class market, in a middle-class world?

[bohoy2k Posted Oct 7th 2009 4:28PM]

wow, my snob meter is off the charts...the amount of ego in that room is enough for 6 small countries.

[GGG Posted Oct 7th 2009 4:33PM]

This is just wrong on every possible level.

1. ugly
2. doesn't really look like a snake
3. has no function
4. makes it impossible to put the laptop in a bag
5. you have to be extra careful not to break it off
6. overpriced
7. only a complete idiot would buy something like this
8. ugly


This is probably the worst thing i have seen attached to a laptop in a while

[BuzzKill Posted Oct 7th 2009 4:35PM]

Why? I mean, seriously. That is one of the worst things I have ever seen done to a laptop. I take that back. It is the worst thing I have ever seen done to a laptop. Ever.

[theNEOone Posted Oct 7th 2009 4:43PM]

Wow - is this the first time that everyone on Engadget has agreed on something????


=|

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 7th 2009 5:00PM]

Jfc, that has to be done in the worst taste ever! I'm guessing the next model with be a giant crystal encrusted $ on the lid like so many of those ridiculous necklaces.

[ethana2 Posted Oct 7th 2009 5:49PM]

A Windows machine with a diamond studded sterling silver snake on the back of the lid ..is still a Windows machine.

[Leicaman Posted Oct 7th 2009 5:58PM]

Sorry, but the most expensive snake is the one that bites you, and you die.

Swarovski crystals aren't worth all that much per carat.

[Crsh Posted Oct 7th 2009 10:03PM]

Wow.. I mean.. gosh, I'm speechless. It's a whole new level of both fugly and non-functional.

[theswiss Posted Oct 7th 2009 6:44PM]

I really feel offended by this notebook. seriously if i would live in the states I would sue dell and that so-called designer for visual harassment ... it's the most disturbing computer ever produced. even hello kitty notebooks start looking lovely cute and adorable. just arrrg

[vzwphonenerd Posted Oct 7th 2009 7:09PM]

why

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 7th 2009 7:00PM]

I never make any comments, but this stupidity compelled me to so for the first time! I am appalled, offended and embarrassed that someone could even conceive, much less actually make, something as stupid as this.

I cannot believe that guy is standing there, so proudly with such a stupidity in his hands as if he was holding something truly innovated and or revolutionary. What an embarrassment!

While other companies, such as Apple, are coming out with truly one of a kind, innovations with leading and cutting edge technology on their Mac Books, these idiots came out with a useless piece of junk on top of another piece of junk!

How embarrassing! But, even more embarrassing is to showcase it and celebrate it in the manner that they are, as if they had just developed something extraordinary!

Dell, is neither an Apple or Sony, true leaders and innovators in their respective platforms, and I believe that Dell, should just get back and do what its always done best... Cheap, thick plastic laptops for the masses who cannot afford or are not willing to spend too much on a laptop!

[Loonie Posted Oct 7th 2009 7:20PM]

Gosh, that's un-vulgar.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 7th 2009 9:22PM]

hahaha, I agree that Dell makes one of the shittiest and ugliest laptop on the planet. This one is no exception. If you want engineering perfection, just get a Macbook air.

[lee045 Posted Oct 7th 2009 11:16PM]

Its stupid but not as bad as taking a piece of white paper and calling it art. But I'm sorry but I wouldn't take that piece of junk anywhere couldn't put it in a normal laptop bag without breaking something off.

[chen Posted Oct 7th 2009 11:00PM]

Looks like some some rich kid shit on top of a adamo dell.

[vicarious1 Posted Oct 8th 2009 2:15AM]

QUEEN NEIRD in person

[feraligatr8 Posted Oct 8th 2009 7:09AM]

Ewwww.... Talk about ugly.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 8th 2009 11:21AM]

Looks like a load of crap.... literally.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 13th 2009 8:13PM]

....and when the blue fairy makes me a real boy, i'll celebrate by hot
gluing an impractical silver turd on a laptop and adorn him with one
gem for every person ive screwed over in order to distract your eyes
from the clipart etched beneath it.