Review: Dell Adamo Laptop
Rating: *** {3 /5}
Upside: A unique design, good selection of ports and extras, extremely thin, great online support features
Downside: Extremely expensive, no DVD-ROM, speakers are behind the monitor, lacks an internal optical drive and an SD card slot, average battery-life, and very noisy
Overview: Dell launched the 13-inch Adamo laptop in early April this year. It is 0.65 inch thick and is very sleekly designed. It seems Dell has kept all of its focus only on the design and the styling, ignoring the minute specifications and the finer details.
With the launch of Dell’s Adamo, what becomes clear is that Dell is trying to cash in on its brand value rather than working out the finer details and imparting an edge to its laptop. Dell claims Adamo to be the thinnest laptop, in close competition with MacBook Air, but that’s a debatable point as its thinner than MacBook Air in one area but thicker if looked at from different angle.
Dell’s Adamo has decent features such as the clever design of including the eSATA/USB drives, which would mean that your external drives would be as fast as your internal drives. Adamo can support up-to 4GB of RAM if you are looking out to surf the web, access e-mails and Xcel files at high speed, which is better than MacBook Air’s 2GB RAM.
But Dell misses on the big factors, such as the missing SD Memory card slot, DVD-ROM and internal optical drive; a mediocre battery life, which refutes Dell’s tall claim of 5+ hours of battery power; the illogical placing of the speakers behind the laptop; and the jarring sound of the fan that makes it irritating to work for long hours.
Dell’s idea of promoting Adamo as the ultimate product for ostentatious customers isn’t the timeliest of ideas either, seeing the current economic crunch. To make up for these limitations, Dell has included an exclusive online support feature with a wait time of 2 minutes, a special number & the desired technician every time that you call.
But at a heavy price tag of $1999, Dell’s Adamo is a worthless option, unless all that matters to you is the looks and the design.
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