New Adamo XPS image takes a stand
By Ross Miller 
posted October 12th 2009 6:27PM
posted October 12th 2009 6:27PM
posted October 12th 2009 6:27PM
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Is this a weapon?!
nope it's a razor
This looks wayyyy too thin to actually house a computer. Dell just got my attention.
I am expecting to see some carbon fiber in new uber-thin-ridiculously-expensive laptops from now on, though.
I thought it was cool at first... now I'm confused..
In the first picture, isn't that a sideways laptop..?
it's an apple. an adamo's apple.
...the computer is male by the way.
I don't understand Engadget... You trickle useless false info, ridiculous patent drawings which say nothing and every possible rumor about the "iTablet" for over a year now, and 2 stunning pics from Dell is too much?
@ pic: I'm very impressed and intrigued... Yet hoping for anything but atom.
That is some of the best gadget porn ever.
And to all you folks who say "apple made the macbook air first and everyone else is copying" you are too young or underexposed to remember the original vaio z and sharp pc-mm20 laptops. other companies made "macbook air" form factors way before apple.
and i'm tired of seeing "mac vs pc" commercials. A MAC IS A PC NOW AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THE COUNTER-ADS SHOULD SAY.
This will be smashed by the tray table on all us flights!!!!
More like, it will be banned on flights much the same way as steel utensils...
"on all us flights"?
So, you're a flight? If you're the spokesflight for all of 'em, I have some questions for you...
how is that going to sit on my lap?
At first I was thinking how great it would be on a table, but you make a great point my friend.
Pretty much the same way as any other laptop i presume.
I don't think the way it's sitting open in the picture is actually the upright position.. I think the keyboard is on the part with the ports and that half is supposed to be sitting flat on the surface. And the thin part without ports is actually the display and is supposed to facing up.. I believe they just rotated the picture like this to confuse everyone
@rube why are there vents on the side of the screen so?
I think it is positioned correcting in the first picture. The second pic makes it look like the keyboard can be detached and it can then be used as a tablet. So, im guessing the screen portion actually houses the cpu and hard drive, etc. thats why that portion is a bit thicker and has vents.
@stephen earley i believe those are speakers dude
I think it is positioned CORRECTLY...
@stephen, I'm only speculating and can't answer that.. maybe they are for aesthetics or maybe they are somehow functional but there could also be more vents located in the areas we cannot see yet
If you look at it from the current position.. it makes no sense to sit like this because if you tilt the screen any farther back.. it will probably fall over. not to mention how unattractive it is like this with a huge gap underneath it.
and if you rotate the image 90 degrees counterclockwise you will see how it makes more sense to sit this way.
But maybe this is the direction that ultra thin laptops are going.. having large gaps underneath for airflow like the sony vaio x with the extended battery.. If this is how they are going to look then I'm not ever buying one
@stephen
I never said anything like that. jeez.
if you look at where the rubber feet are positioned in the pics here http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-announces-updated-adamo/ then that pretty much confirms 99.99% that this pic is infact, the right way round. but still....WTF?
I see that some people didn't see from the earlier pics that this is the upright position...
The laptop would tip over too easily in picture 1. It has to flipped.
hell.. if I'm going to have a huge gap under my laptop like this then they might as well make a 20 cell battery in the shape of a wedge to give me 200 hours of usage
@rube, you mean a wedge battery like this
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/vaio-x-spotted-in-champagne-propped-up-by-extended-battery-rip
@smrterthnu
In answer to your comment: 1) I'm assuming that there is a limit to the angle the computer can open to, like in the original Adamo, so that the computer could not fall back without snapping off the keyboard. 2) For all we know there could be some kind of spring in the hinge mechanism that creates greater force when the unit is open, "locking it in place" as it were.
@ rube
Look at the original teaser pics of the Adamo XPS and you'll realize how wrong you are. Just look at the placing of the rubber "feet". That's how you know which side is the bottom.
I'm gonna go ahead and guess that this doesn't have a keyboard, but a multitouch screen, or possibly just a huge touchpad, maybe even two
Sit it up like this if you want a raised 'keyboard', rest it the other way if you want a more traditional laptop position.
Think about it, that's why it's so thin, and why they haven't shown us any pictures of the device's inner shell. Dell know how to do Multitouch already, it would make sense that they would want to make a portable version of the Inspiron One
the mostly likely structure is that (in the pic used in the article) the horizontal thin part is the screen, and the vertical part is teh body with the keyboard (and vents and ports on the side). however, it differs from current laptops because the screen part folds INTO the body (i.e. the edges of the main body surrounds the screen), this is how it can be so thin from side-on in the 2nd picture.
Finally a cake cutting Adamo!
Bye air, hello Adamo :)
By the looks of it, this thing should EAT some cake instead of cutting it.
That looks sturdy.
WHERE IS THE SNAKE OF DOOM???????????????????
no thanks. i wont click on your website.
Fine, but what do you have against the Shift key?
Hahaha, I like lolcats :-)
It's LOLcats.
I like the part where they release this for $2999 with 1.6ghz Core 2 Duo and nobody buys it like the Adamo :D
Lol. Adamo is purely made for PR and proving they can do sexy. Dell isn't make them to turn a huge profit.
why the picture rotated 90 degree to make it look weird?
To make it look weird.
No, the top half if larger than the bottom. It's a unique design, not a rotated picture.
saw that coming, i like though how comfortable it would be on ones lap is another question
What if I DON'T wish to induce a severe case of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, by turning my wrists up 60 degrees?
Is there a setting to "switch this to off", I ask ya?
Here's that "setting". DON'T buy it, I tell ya.
Congratulations, Dell... welcome to Apple, circa 2008.
stfu fgt.
How's that for 2008?
Actually this was shown at the MS Company Meeting, it came out on stage inside the shell of a Macbook Air. Seriously. Sinofsky had a Macbook Air in his hands and when he held it up, he opened the case and this was inside the Air, (obvioulsy minus the Air's innards) with the shell totally closed around this Dell.
If you look at the first pic carefully you'll notice what looks to be an SD card slot. This singular fact alone makes this superior and more innovative (see more convenient for anyone with any camera other than a cell phone) than any mac prior to the latest batch of MBPros.
Since when does an SD slot make a notebook innovative? By that argument, Apple's FireWire was pure genius. Anyway, Apple still did "small" first, and nearly 2 years ago. It's taken Dell and others that long to finally do something similar and without significantly improved functionality. And it'll still be less than half of the Mac's value in 2 years anyway...