Still, it's more about looks than function.

Nice and thin... what graphics chip is in there?? Must be crappy! Can it play HD 1080P flawlessly.. prob not, can it play any good games...?? prob not.. Its a overpriced netbook.... What can I do on this that I cant do on a netbook.....not much that I would want to spend that much on it..1700 for Adamo or 300. for a silly netbook.. I would never buy a netbook...

...am I the only one who finds this thing ugly?

The screen probably does 1366x768, so you'll be stuck with 720p.
I am betting on an Intel 4500MHD uncelerator. Good enough for movies, forget about gaming.

But anything that has a dual-core processor and a 12+ inch screen can hardly be considered a netbook.

Dell is just catering to a crowd of people that want to steal the d-bag crown from macbook air owners.

Must have!

My thoughts exactly, although not necessarily my choice of words. :-)

DD3 800? What? Core 2 Duo with DDR 3? Wtf?

Apple makes it first

Someone else makes it better

The cycle of technology

Adamo = I love. Latin, first person, present tense. Adamare is the infinitive, "to love." I hate it when companies translate any language incorrectly. Yes, I read/write Latin.

Yes. DDR3 = lower voltage and less heat = more gooder for small/thin/light/etc.

I care less about the device's thickness, than I care about the other sizes of the device.
10" is truly the largest I'd probably want to go to.

I hate to break your heart chief but you read Latin for shite...

Adamo translates exactly as they claim.

"I love" in Latin is AMO.

Amo
Amas
Amat
Amamus
Amatis
Amant

How the hell is someone supposed to use this in their lap?

I am sure you are throwing together a scrappy response so I will preempt it with a simple Latin lesson for you...
http://onlysometimesclever.wordpre [...] in-lesson/

And to the poster regarding the hinge on the lap, I agree! It looks like the screen would swivel if not on a table.

Thats what she said! Or wait....

status symbol for d-bags with too much money... kind of like buying a Rolex when all you need is a Timex.

"Our engineers and designers are breaking ... and throwing away ..."
Just love how they describe things.

it's a samsung x360 + dual core processor + stupid heat sensitive latch.

gloss is stupid, matte is for people that actually use notebooks. when will manufacturers get it right???

It looks nice when it's closed. But when it's open...uggh. I like to lay my laptop flat on the table or my lap.

Uber thin and uber impractical!!!

Vertical size constraints mean your pencil-thin battery will get mediocre run times - 3 hours at best. And the lack of a proper thermal budget means you can kiss goodbye to any decent mainstream processor or GPU.

For that kind of money you could get a 13" HP dv3t with a T9900 off ebay, discreet GPU and a nice 9-cell battery. It would not weigh much more than 4lbs.

But I'm sure it will inspire an emotional connection with folks who attempt to be productive with the Adamo - one that involves picking the unit up with both hands and cracking it in half across your knee in frustration...

Seriously, if thin is your style get a HP Envy 13. Better processors, better screens, discreet graphics, much better batteries and no stupid hinge.

No you're not the only one. It just looks wrong. It looks like it opens upside down. Seriously, if I really wanted a laptop that's all about how thin it is and all about looks then I'd rather plop my $1799 down on a top end MacBook Air. Dell laptops don't usually look this bad.

Wow! How lost are you? A netbook doesn't use Core 2 Duo fyi
It can definitely play 1080p without a hiccup. It's expensive, I do agree with you, but if you don't want to spend that much on it, don't buy it at all!

PS The keyboard looks like a Macbook's keyboard.

Not digging the high keyboard angle... will be a pita to type on. I'm also thinking the sharp bottom of the lcd panel will dig into your legs if you actually try to use it as a LAPtop.

Overall... I think the thinness is cool, specs are great, design is different but it's probably impractical for real use.

It's an ugly photo at least.

You're not supposed to put it in your lap. You're supposed to set it up on a table at Starbucks so people will notice you.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I guess. It doesn't look too bad; it's surely something "different" to say the least. But as far as "guts" go, it's on the lower end of the performance gradient in terms of laptops. For some out there, it'll do just fine as their main computer, for others it may suffice as "different" secondary machine. Heck, my little Toshiba laptop doesn't have much on it in terms of performance- maybe a little better chip (t6400).

Its a technological step, why hate on it?

None needed.

http://www.latin-dictionary.net/info/word/728.html

As with all languages, multiple words have the same and/or similar meaning.

I'd love to tell you what it's like to be correct all the time, but I just don't have that kind of time.

By the way... I owned you pretty good. Actually, really really good. Yup, mhmm.

What's this, then? "Romanes eunt domus"? People called Romanes, they go, the house?

Only use of functionality i can find with this.
Its a Portable presentation laptop that is light weight and not bulky, unlike the projector or plasma screen you'll be hooking it up to.
Its good for showing slide shows to an audience without the need to lug around that hulking 17" notebook.
It would act as a portable DVD player on flights so you can play all your DVD movies or downloaded movies while still having the ability to type up that office document.
You won't need a bulky laptop bag since this thing fits into an envelope thus making it easy to use as a carry on.
it won't take up all that huge room on your tray or in your lap on those airline flights like the 15" desktop replacement size notebooks.

So the design is very situational, its not a netbook, and its not a crysis playin laptop