Dell's Adamo to challenge Apple's MacBook Air

Dell is expected to announce a new laptop at CES 2009, early January. Buzz has it that it is thinner and cheaper than the MacBook Air. Also featuring a DVD slot and many options amongst which Blu-Ray….



The buzz comes straight from the company. No doubt on that one. Dell even masterminded a teaser for its latest product. If you have a look through Google cached pages you can get a pretty good idea of what it should be like.

Through information thus gathered, Dell's Adamo is an ultralight 13 inch laptop (even thinner then the MacBook Air with extra-thin 3.5mm (0.14in) LCD panels by Samsung. It will feature a slot-load DVD burner (Macbook Air has often been criticized for not having one). It should also carry a DisplayPort for video out along with an option list for Displayport-to-VGA, Displayport-to-HDMI and Displayport-to-DVI converters. An optional External Blu-Ray drive should be available too.

According to TG Daily, Dell will be offering solid state disk drives (SSDs) a with capacity going beyond 100 GB. That should mean either 128 GB or 160 GB, if not Samsung’s new 256 GB drive.

Price is another guessing game. For the moment, at entry level it could cost some 1 500 dollars, while the high end version (all options) would sell for 3 000 dollars. In comparison the new version of the MacBook Air starts at 1 800 dollars.

What is still missing of course is a photo of the product and more information on the equipment, graphics support, ports...and its weight!


Let us just hope that Dell will be as generous as they were not so long ago regarding information, once the Adamo is launched.