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Dell’s Adamo XPS laptop: unboxing and hands-on
Representatives from Dell Inc. visited the American-Statesman this morning an hour before unveiling to the world the new Adamo XPS laptop.
We’ve seen glimpses of the laptop before, most notably at Austin City Limits festival, but this was the first time I’ve gotten my hands on it and see it up close.
The laptop is only 9.99mm thick and, design-wise it’s breathtaking. The entire bottom half of the laptop folds into a recess in front of the 13.4”-inch screen. The slim computer starts at $1,799 and that gets you 4 Gigabytes of DDR3 memory, a 1.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, a 128-GB solid-state drive, Wireless-N and a copy of Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit edition installed.
The most interesting design characteristic of the Adamo XPS is that the keyboard rises on a hinge to give it an angled profile. I pressed against the keyboard and it has a bit of give — it doesn’t seem too stiff, but at the same time, despite its aluminum construction, I’d be worried about putting too much weight on it. At the very least, it’s a good way to wean yourself off of laying your palms below the keyboard, as I tend to do with my Macbook.
In any case, here’s a video where you can make your own impressions on the ambitiously designed little laptop from Dell:
Image from Dell’s Flickr stream.
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