Super-thin Dell Adamo XPS is Under 1cm Thick

By Marcus Yam
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The new Adamo will make the old one look like a fatty.

The market for the ultra-thin, premium laptop is small and exclusive. The main players are the Dell Adamo, the Voodoo Envy and the reigning champion, the Apple MacBook Air.

The Dell Adamo, unfortunately, wasn't able to measure up due to being underpowered and overpriced – even when being compared to Apple's product. Dell seems to have gone back to the drawing board and is back with a new version that'll measure even thinner at 9.99 mm (0.39 inches) all around.

Not much else is known about this product this far aside from what we can see from the teaser site. Stay tuned for more.

Marcus Yam
Marcus Yam
Marcus Yam served as Tom's Hardware News Director during 2008-2014. He entered tech media in the late 90s and fondly remembers the days when an overclocked Celeron 300A and Voodoo2 SLI comprised a gaming rig with the ultimate street cred.
35 Comments Comment from the forums
  • christop
    OK how much??
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  • alvine
    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
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  • dark_lord69
    I would rather have a thick heavy computer if it provided plenty of power/performance.
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  • Spanky Deluxe
    alvineso 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
    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.
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  • pmt82
    9.99mm, 09-09-09. Marketing?
    Although its already the 10th here in NZ.
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  • Spanky Deluxe
    pmt829.99mm, 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.
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  • socrates047
    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.
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  • Supertrek32
    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.
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  • tipoo
    Thats pretty insane, thats only 1mm thicker than a second gen Ipod Touch!
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  • Pyroflea
    I take it this won't have a CD/DVD drive either? :p
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