Dell Adamo Desire gets 2.1GHz Core 2 Duo SL9600, 256GB SSD
By Darren Murph 
posted Oct 19th 2009 4:19PM
posted Oct 19th 2009 4:19PM
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Still not worth the price..
256 gb SSD is over pay, I'd rather go with 320-500 HDD
Man, if they can squeeze a 2.1 ghz Core 2 Duo into the XPS, it'll totally be worth it.
I confirm with you. Dell kept this as a supposedly secret and now that it's been unveiled it turned to be a piece of JUNK!! I rather buy me a Macbook pro.
marinux,
Learn English. Then come back, and try again. Right now it would be like picking on a 'tard to respond to anything you have to say.
Could be if it had a nipple...
@marinux
You didn't read the article did you? This isn't the Adamo XPS which Dell has apparently been keeping "as a supposedly secret", this is last year's model. If you wish to spew your Apple fanboyism, go do it on roughlydrafted or appleinsider.
I think its worth the price. 256GB SSD is fairly expensive.
dude, you've said ..."it's worth the price"..? WHY?? compare this JUNK with the macbook air or macbook pro and you'll see a big difference.
the ssd definitely makes it attractive, but that integrated graphics is a turn off. had they put a nice graphics card with the same price i would have been sold.
I agree. Not only is it actually quite an impressive computer, but this is a more industrial design, and it's nice to see someone going a different direction than Apple in the design department. Design is one of the main reasons I like the Zune HD; it's doing its own original thing, and it's doing it well.
Can somebody explain why SSDs can't be a round 250 GB? Why are they made 32,64, etc...
They go in powers of 2. It's fairly complicated at the low level, but it's the same reason why RAM always goes in 2, 4, 8GB as well.
Finally a reason to buy this overpriced laptop.
To be honest, if they put this stuff into the old Adamo, i would assume they put it into the new one as well. Why would you buy this one if you could buy the new one with same specs and a sexier frame?
Why was the correct reason ranked down?
Don't know why Mark is getting down ranked.
With memory on a chip, it is far easier and more natural to address the memory (be it RAM or SSD) in powers of two. I mean, you could make a 250 GB SSD, but then you'd be wasting a bit of addressing space, and with SSDs and RAM it would be a crying shame (because you'd be adding all the extra stuff to support that extra addressing bit without making use of all the extra addresses it provides). It's less of an issue with disk drives because an address maps to a simple physical location on the disk anyway and any extra addressing only adds additional complexity in one area. (Though in the earlier days of HDs, it was pretty common to see them in powers of two, also.)
I may be oversimplifying it, but that's the gist. Also, since SSDs are so expensive, manufacturers probably want to emphasize as much of the storage space as possible and tout the extra 6 GBs rather than round down (like they do with a lot of the HDs today).
It seems all of Mark's recent comments have been low ranked.
Someone have a vendetta again him?
@Erb: Yes, but I actually kind of prefer it this way. If I get lowest-ranked then it's just because of the person doing this. If I end up high or even neutral or low ranked then it means I made an incredibly helpful/insightful/humorous post. It's basically win-win for me now.
@ Erb,
Well yeah most of the crap and I really mean crap that comes out of his mouth is just stupid. For example his comment up there, and I quote "the same reason why RAM always goes in 2, 4, 8GB as well." ummm lets see for as far as I can remember this has never been true, I really don't want to go into details but lets see I remember ram goes by 128K byte sizes multiplied by whatever exponent to get to that total number. So basically you don't need to have even numbers you can have 1, 3, 6, 9 and so forth the reason why its 256 because it's probably don't quote me on this cheaper just to manufacture 2GB chips or whatnot and instead of one GB chips but I think a 250GB SSD would definately be physically possible.
@Fernando: Wow, you're just brilliant! I never would have thought of that! Let's just ignore the fact that it's more efficient and an easier process to make them in powers of two(my point with the previous comment) rather than trying to force it not to be. Hence the reason why, for example, a 160GB SSD is ~$800 when a 256GB one is ~600. Damn that easier manufacturing process, eh?
@Fernando: Oh and moving past the issue of your nonsensical "multiplied by whatever exponent" and assuming you mean something along the lines of "raised to whatever power", you do realize that 128KB(K here stands for 1024, or 2^10) raised to any power is still a power of 2, right? That said, you're right in thinking you can combine multiple SSD chips together to make non-standard sizes but it's significantly more expensive, with no benefit.
Fernando, punctuation is your friend. and be nice. "the crap that comes out of his mouth?" don't be a jerk, even if he wasn't totally right (he wasn't exactly wrong either, though).
@Mark:
Not quite actually. Several NAND "block"s are tied to some form of controller, which these days is capable of quite a lot. Anyway, each block must be a power of 2 in size. The controller has a maximum amount of them that it can talk to, which is a power of 2 as well, but you can of course, have less than that amount.
The problem however, is that a lot of drivers are written assuming the total is a power of 2, because this makes the math a lot simpler and faster.
Mark. STFU already
^ Mark's jealous ex?
More like Paul Chapel's alter-alter-alter-alter ego.
Seems to me like he's actually got accounts for targeting specific users now. I look forward to his "CJ_sucks" username
Adamo
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Finally a reason to buy this overpriced laptop.
To be honest, if they put this stuff into the old Adamo, i would assume they put it into the new one as well. Why would you buy this one if you could buy the new one with same specs and a sexier frame?
1st conjugation?
admiral adama
Dat azzz
Ooooh. Shiny. Too expensive but at least its got good hardware.
Core 2 Duo is almost 5 years old, I think I'll wait for the i7 laptops.
you do that
More like 3, and the 45nm ones like the one in that laptop are only 1 and a half years old. So yeah, you're only off by roughly a factor of three
@Marinux
You can't compare a Macbook Pro to this, that would be like comparing apples and... nevermind.
Since this is way too expensive, why don't you check out the dell adamo?? it's not bad either.
http://www.tvlesson.com/video/34928_new-dell-adamo.html
You link to your shitty site which doesn't even have content you created yourself?
Good thing I use abp so I used your bandwidth and didn't load your ads, screw you.
Huzzah, an incremental upgrade!
Hmm at 1/2 the thickness, same processor, double the RAM, and double the SSD capacity, $500 more than the Macbook Air isn't quite as exorbitant.
Only to sheeps like you!
but the macbook has an nvidia 9400M.
@Fernando: Really? So you're making the argument that having significantly better specs and maintaining the same price is a WORSE value proposition? Interesting.
@justin: Ya, that's why I said it isn't quite as exorbitant, rather than claiming it wasn't at all.
No im just calling you a sheep because of history on Engadget that's all, just trolling like you always do.
People who down ranked him should really check out the meaning of "exorbitant"
@Fernando: Alright, I'll take the bait. In what comment in recent history was I "trolling"?
@Mark
THIS ONE.
@justin, ta for genuine lol :D
@Badger_badger_badger: Ah, didn't realize that comparing the product talked about in this article to a directly competing product in order to evaluate the comparative value proposition of said products was considered trolling. Always figured something along the lines of saying "only to sheeps like you!" was closer to what was meant by that term.
Man that thing is a rip off what a poc WTF D€ll can't you put a better video card in that thing like the much cheaper xps's, I can build my own Adamo for half that price, waaaaa waaaa waaaa.