Super-thin Dell Adamo XPS is Under 1cm Thick

OK how much??

so you gonna buy this overpriced underpowered peace of hardware and walk around with a ruler showing your friends its millimeter short of being 1cm thick? gosh marketing these days

I would rather have a thick heavy computer if it provided plenty of power/performance.

Not a mm short of 1cm, 0.01mm. Honestly, if you're in the market for a laptop like this then you're clearly far more worried about style than functionality. In which case, you'd be a fool not to go for the MacBook Air. It'd also probably hold its value better too.

9.99mm, 09-09-09. Marketing?
Although its already the 10th here in NZ.

If they'd announced it a while ago for release today then it would have been a *big* hit with the Chinese community.

I saw the adamo at futureshop the other day, and once you see it person you kind of forget its shortcomings for a while and just drool at it.

If I owned one of these I'd be afraid to take it anywhere for fear of it snapping in half.... which would kind of defeat the point of me having one, anyway.

Thats pretty insane, thats only 1mm thicker than a second gen Ipod Touch!

I take it this won't have a CD/DVD drive either?

How thick is a CD anyway?

Approximately 1mm. However, since they were comparing it to the MacBook Air, I assumed that it would require and external CD/DVD Drive as well, due to it's thickness (or lack thereof).

:-)

1. It needs a quad core processor
2. It needs 8gb of ram
3. It needs a blu ray burner
4. the screen needs to be 1920x1280
5. It needs at least a 9 hour battery

and it needs to batch edit raw files and hd video on the road for me....

I guess that takes me out of the running for this thing.

I think the hinge is gonna break easily. Hopefully they use something that won't cause cracking this time

I'd rather the Asus U6V bamboo

If I had an extra $2,000 I'd pick one of these up and make it my traveling laptop. Probably can't weigh more than 2 pounds which is a hell of a lot lighter than my T61 or 15" Macbook Pro. Although judging by Dell's pricing of the other Adamo $2,000 might not cut it, and I thought the Air was overpriced!

I fear that the "under 1cm thick" is a typo, and it is really under 1 inch thick. Do the math...

My bad. I was thinking of another notebook. Unfortunately, there is no way to edit a comment, which is unfortunate...

but will it blend?

i don't anything wrong with a laptop under 1 cm think if i want to travel and just check emails and surf the web, maybe watch some movies on the plane,...

barring of course the price tag...

hm? 9.99mm is just under 1cm (10mm)

Regarding the lack of optical drive, I think we're almost at the point of it making sense to replace discs with SD cards and their ilk, as most things will fit onto something that only costs a couple of bucks. At least offer it as an alternative.

"the reigning champion, the Apple MacBook Air"....
and who exactly decided that?..., Oh, yeah, the Apple fan who's writing the article...
I'm sick of biased articles.
Now go ahead and give your thumb down, like I give a f..k....

if only the thinness and the increased price meant that you save money on the bag...

Which one is better? Seriously. The Air has a 2.13GHz core 2 duo, 2GB ram, 9400m, and a 128GB SSD for $1,800. The Adamo and X301 are both woefully underpowered with slow processors and integrated GPUs and are somehow still outclassed in battery life (by a lot). Adamo is a little bit cheaper while the X301 is substantially more, for less. Not to mention the Air just flat out looks better than both of those machines. Try not to let your own bias get in the way.

I'm wondering the same thing. There are ~25mm in an inch so if this thing is 9.99mm it would be ~.4 of an inch thick. Just to put this into perspective the iPhone 3G is .48 inches thick. If they are measuring by the thinnest point it's possible but I have a hard time believing that at it's thickest point this laptop will be thinner than an iPhone. I'll believe it when I see it.

Are there more pictures out of the "new" one?

The Adamo is the sexiest Windows laptop for this category. I checked out a review of the current Adamo, Dell claims a 5 hour battery (built in) but the reviewer got 2:45 hrs out of it playing video. I guess if you worked on a word processor the battery would be better. Still sexy though and pricey.
As for the rest of us I have been looking at a poor mans thin laptop by Acer ($550) with excellent battery life, 8hr. Will probably buy this for myself after 7 releases.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B [...] d_i=507846

That part of the article was referencing the older design...

Naw. I can't settle for a quad core. I need nothing less than a quad-socket with 4 6-core processors, and at least a tb of RAM...

*Keeps refreshing Dell's website for a "$9.99 deal"...