Dell Adamo falls to under $1,000 for the first time, tempts you mercilessly

You know what's hard to resist? This. You know what else is difficult to turn a blind eye to? One of the sexiest machines Dell has ever made, at a price point that's below the all-important four figure mark. Starting today, the Adamo Admire is sporting an altogether sultry base price of $999, which nets you a 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor, Windows 7 Home (64-bit), 2GB of DDR3 RAM and a 128GB solid state drive. If that's a little weak for your tastes, the upmarket Adamo Desire has also undergone a price reduction, enabling you to get a 2.1GHz Core 2 Duo chip, 4GB of memory, integrated mobile broadband and a 256GB SSD for $1,799 -- a full $500 less than it was in October. You're blowing it off like you just don't care, but you know you'll be back to visit that Source link when no one's looking. And the video after the jump, too.

[Thanks, Ben and Ryan]

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[smartmouth Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:01PM]

Who are the hot girls in the vid?

[DeanS Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:28PM]

@smartmouth

@ooiEyeoo
Not that I don't agree with you, but you need to read the article first. 256GB SSD is the $1799 model, NOT the $999 model.

[jakey Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:57PM]

@00iEye00
Let's keep the iPad out of this. We had enough of the iPad yesterday.

[clocker Posted Jan 28th 2010 6:53PM]

@jakey

Amen. I actually shutdown my browser yesterday after 5 min on Engadget when I saw nothing but ipad stretched to the horizon. Never have I done such a thing b4...

[celinerhonavi Posted Jan 29th 2010 5:30AM]

@smartmouth As for the adamo, So the keyboard is actually where the screen appears to be. Given that they have been jerking you around with this thing, I wouldn’t put it past them and it would seem to make sense for that to be the correct arrangement. The insane specs is obviously not mediocre, so as the price too (well at least there's a drop ..)... More Details: http://bit.ly/dell-adamo-details

[SkyNew Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:02PM]

For the first time I am being tempted to buy this thing....maybe generation two. Stick NVIDIA or ATI in this thing and I am sold....but as for now...it would have to sell for under $700 for me to consider it.

[sethmo Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:06PM]

@SkyNew same here, I will not buy another laptop with Intel graphics. Can get an Asus with GTX260m for the same price, just not as pretty to look at.

[horchata Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:17PM]

@sethmo

Nice looking product, but that's about it for me.

[nicholasphan Posted Jan 28th 2010 8:25PM]

@horchata

what's the point of this getting this?

get the VAIO Z instead. more powerful processor. more powerful gpu. more ram. switchable graphics. same size ssd. has an optical drive whereas this doesn't have one. fingerprint reader. higher res screen. similar battery life. AND lighter too!

[nicholasphan Posted Jan 28th 2010 8:26PM]

@SkyNew

sorry meant to reply to SkyNew instead

[YpoCaramel Posted Jan 28th 2010 8:41PM]

@nicholasphan Sony Z starts at $1800 *shrug*

@sethmo Well of course you can get a G51J or whatever mid-range laptop Asus is packing these days, but it's for totally different purpose.

[Fanfoot Posted Jan 28th 2010 9:22PM]

@SkyNew Meh. I like how thin it is, and the metal all around, but two hours of battery? And a keyboard you can't read the letters on most of the time? And shoddy build quality too. Anybody actually go back and read the Engadget review? It wasn't very good...

[pedpalina Posted Jan 29th 2010 1:43AM]

@nicholasphan
But heavy in the pocket as well...Well, if Sony Vaio Z could keep it under 2 grand I'll have a second thought then.

[excelsium Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:05PM]

Lots of harsh angles on the Adamo's aurely people prefer rounded, soft edges etc these days?

[excelsium Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:05PM]

@excelsium

Surely*

[EtherGnat Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:09PM]

@excelsium Says who? Apple? I'm sure some people do prefer rounded corners, but I love the Adamo's industrial style. To each their own I guess.

[Paul Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:11PM]

@excelsium
I prefer harsh angles to smooth lines any day. And no I'm not being sarcastic, I just don't like the looks of, say, the Nexus One compare to the Motorola Droid for example.

[Nolano Posted Jan 28th 2010 7:02PM]

@excelsium

ANGLES ARE SEXIER THAN BLAND SMOOTHED SURFACES.

[Badison Posted Jan 28th 2010 10:33PM]

@EtherGnat

What does this have to do with Apple? lol you must like/hate apple a lot, no?

[Richard Lai Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:05PM]

Gah, just when I thought my $1,210 Adamo was a bargain many months ago.

[YpoCaramel Posted Jan 29th 2010 12:11AM]

@Richard Lai tsk, $200 is a small price to pay for many months of use. =p

[Spatev Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:07PM]

i would almost feel guilty putting linux on this beast.

almost

[NewL Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:12PM]

128GB SSD in a sexy machine for $999? That's pretty awesome. Needs 4GB of RAM though, but otherwise this is cool...

[picassoinactions Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:37PM]

@NewL SSd is not fast as you think. It's samsung SSd and i was able to pull around 8090 read and 50 write

[bioadam Posted Jan 28th 2010 5:58PM]

@NewL Why do you need 4GB of Ram? Let me put it to you this way, how many apps can you usably run on a screen of that size. Use just what you need and save money doing it.

[NewL Posted Jan 28th 2010 6:34PM]

@bioadam - well, run a VM or even two (which I do a lot for my job), and 2GB is *nothing*. Also, in which way is screensize supposed to influence the amount of needed RAM? I'm certainly not seeing the correlation...

[newone Posted Jan 28th 2010 8:06PM]

@NewL

SSD has limited write times. So max out on RAM to save your disc from getting worn out from cache writes. Oh, and theres no separate display memory so 2G became a lot less of memory.

And with the current memory prices 2G vs 4G is neglectable. Unfortunately adamos memory is welded to the motherboard, so no upgrades possible. (Unless you have a BGA hotair station and reballing equipment, and even then a bit iffy).

Dare I say the new four letter word... I'll do it. This is tremondeos value for money if you compare it to the iPad. There, I said it.

[frysee Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:12PM]

$999 means 1350€, wow.

[elmo61 Posted Jan 28th 2010 5:30PM]

@frysee

Dell must have there Exchange rate the wrong way around
USA: $999
UK: £1099...

I thought £ > $ ???

[cliffy Posted Jan 28th 2010 6:32PM]

@frysee That $999 US is $2,199 Canadian. How is that for an exchange rate?

[Nivel Posted Jan 28th 2010 9:43PM]

@cliffy I am just hoping that the Canadian website hasn't been updated yet... hopefully.

[MikeUK Posted Jan 29th 2010 4:34AM]

@elmo61

Yeah, I just hit the Dell website ready to buy, thinking "if it's $999 it's got to be around £650-£750 mark"

Someone needs to point out the real exchange rate to Dell. No sale from me I'm afraid.

[nicholas1987ucsb Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:13PM]

I got a Macbook Air with admittedly less ram (but it runs OSX which is all I care about) for like $1200...not so bad.

[NewL Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:23PM]

@nicholas1987ucsb - hint: nobody cares.

[nicholas1987ucsb Posted Jan 28th 2010 6:00PM]

@NewL Obviously Dell cares because they went to extraordinary measures to ripoff the Macbook Air design and then rapes its specs, now they are at last competitive when its all but too late...big fracking deal.

[The Albatross Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:13PM]

Needs 4GB of Ram to be a serious contender at that price, for my hard earned tax rebates.

[xberxinfinity Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:14PM]

:Lmfao that video made me crack the fuck up.

And I'd get it, but it's specs are weak..and for that price...I'd rather go to ibuypower and get a behemoth for 1700

[glenskey Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:16PM]

2GB for a 64bit OS?

[jin and guice Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:27PM]

@glenskey
Thats what I thought.

[Liberty Posted Jan 29th 2010 1:30AM]

@glenskey
For what you'd do on a netbook+ like that you don't really have a great need for more than 2gb.

[Dammerung2010 Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:18PM]

Once this thing has Arrandale ULV and the battery is a bit better I'm definitely buying one.

[Leindurstit Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:53PM]

Not for this price you won't.

[Dammerung2010 Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:55PM]

@Leindurstit Even if it goes up I'll buy it, it's a fantastic looking pc made from aluminum that isn't an apple product.

[statelypenguin Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:20PM]

HOTTTT!!!

[Wowzers Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:22PM]

If they dropped the SSD and the processor down to the su7300 it would probably be the same price as a vostro v13. So is the v13 a premium product or is the adamo a low end product?

[YpoCaramel Posted Jan 28th 2010 8:54PM]

@Wowzers hahaa yes-ish. But Dell can source Samsung SSDs for less it seems, so I don't think dropping the SSD would mean more than $200 savings, the CPU maybe $50? So there's still $100-200 for that case - around the same price as a good messenger bag, I suppose.

[picassoinactions Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:26PM]

I have 2 of them. Pearl and Onyx, both 1.4 128 GB ram and 4gb ram

They looks better on the picture than in reality.
It's not a bad machine under 800-900 % and of cause better than ITampons in the same price range. They don't looks anywhere thiner than macbook air and they are kinda of heavy , 4 LBS.
Plays 1080P with no lag what's so ever. Battery - while playing movie 2 hours (720 or 1080). Browsing and doing nothing is around 4

[jol Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:27PM]

Geeze, you could buy the laptop and sell the SSD for profit.

[YpoCaramel Posted Jan 29th 2010 3:03AM]

@jol not funny mate. Both the Vertex 120GB and X25M 80GB G2 are ~$300-$350, and they're better drives than the Samsung SSD in the Adamo because they do TRIM.

[Shinigami Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:28PM]

Crap doesn't sell well for ridiculous prices when people don't tend to spend too much, eh, Dell? Took a while to get it, huh?