News Dell teases ultra-slim Air-alike

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2009/09/10/dell-teases-ultra-slim-air-alike/1

Dell has revealed images of its next Adamo laptop - the Adamo XPS - and it's looking neat, with a thickness that puts Apple's MacBook Air to shame.

 

Ooooh! Shiny.

 

As thin, well thinner, as the Macbook Air, and more useful. Could sell really well depending on it's full specs.

 

Whoa.

 

If it's that thin... Won't it break easily?

 

Depends on the material and process. Can't see this being a great machine, especially given the past Adamo's reputation.

 

Whoah. You can tell someone was outlining the specs and said: "How thin should we make this thing?" "How thin is the Air? 20mm?" "Well let's just make it half that thick then..."

 

Can it possibly be sturdy enough to carry around if it's that thin? I can see screen damage issues cropping up..

 

Will be interesting to see if that laptop sold with Win7 will have the same appeal as the Macbook Air. The Air has already made a good name for itself and people will flock to Apple in their droves, even if the hardware is sub-standard (after all, the iMac still sells well, but it's essentially a laptop bolted to a monitor). It's got a fight on it's hands at least.

If only Apple would license their software to hardware platforms other than their own - if this was supplied with native OS X it would sell by the bucketload. Here's hoping Win7 can survive Vista's reputation.

 

nah, but if you double the price and slapped a apple logo onit with macosx then it would sell

 

The Air already has trouble being useful. Where are they going to put Ethernet ports, USB, anything? This is going to be very spartan and very expensive. No thank you.

I'd prefer something like the Voodoo Envy instead. Speaking of which, where is that promised Envy hardware refresh..

 

I fixed the story!

 

I love Dell XPS Series notebooks (hell - i love most Dell notebooks i have worked/work on).
That thing looks good. So long as it's not SUPER expensive and/or SUPER slow, i'd consider one. But chances are (munfortunately), that this is gonna look good, be slow, spartan (much liek the Air: No Ethernet, no DVD, etc) and pretty costly (my guess - similar to a Dell XPS Studio 16 in pricing)

 

Holy crap, that's .01mm thinner than my Nokia E71! Be interesting to see the final details.

 

I doubt it will be flimsy..... Solid aluminium construction would make it quite stiff....

 

poser alert!

haha but seriously, looks sexy if slightly useless

 

It looks like a *****.

 

So the Mack Book Air allowed me to cut my cake... this one should allow me to cut my lettuces and tomatoes, right? If so, I will replace my kitchen knives with this.

 

I can't say I find the appeal of 'super-thin but useless' laptops. Even if they come up with some sort of 'mini-ethernet' plug (like Apple's mini DVI) plugging it into anything will still require an ugly, fragile little converter dongle.

Why not create something a few millimetres thicker and still stylish - but yet so much more useable? Why should sturdy aluminum and rounded edges only be reserved for the super expensive executive-toys?

 

Because then the marketing guys wouldn't have anything to boast about...

I still want one. :scared: