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Dell's ultra-thin Adamo XPS to ship soon for $1,799

Dell has finally fully disclosed the specifications of its newly crafted ultra-thin notebook, the Adamo XPS. The laptop is only .4" (just over a centimeter) thick and weighs just over 3lbs.

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Old 11-06-2009
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Specs look good but wow that is a lot of money! It is in the league of Apple with that price! Don't think ill be getting one of these myself!
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I'm afraid that if i use a bit too much force when typing i might brake it. Although the design is superb (in my opinion) it's very practical. The keyboard should have been fully grounded and they could have added an rotating screen instead (it might have even been cheaper that way). BTW i am impressed with the specs; they're better than i thought they would be, but the price is... auch.
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Oh 0.4 inch thin
I thought you were saying 4"
You know "inches" and feet aren't universal now, so I'm glad you put "(just over a centimeter)"
That's pretty thin, like snap-able thin !
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Puiu said:
I'm afraid that if i use a bit too much force when typing i might brake it. Although the design is superb (in my opinion) it's very practical. The keyboard should have been fully grounded and they could have added an rotating screen instead (it might have even been cheaper that way). BTW i am impressed with the specs; they're better than i thought they would be, but the price is... auch.
what i mean is: "it's not very practical".
is there an edit button that i don't know about?
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It looks pretty neat, but since there are lots of options to this type of notebooks nowadays it really doesn't look that neat anymore (And considering the price differences there are).

This model might be unique and doesn't compare in a way to any of the others there are out there BUT the price makes you look the other way and just go with something cheaper.
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Kinda expensive but if you need a really thin laptop this thing is pretty sweet looking.
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Yeah, the laptop does seem a little bit pricey, even thought it might be well designed. One MAJOR drawback is the fact that there is only 2 USB ports. I know one of them would definitely be used up by a mouse, second by a storage device, and in that case, you're left with no room to plug-in your iPod, cellphone, whatever and you have to juggle wires.

@kimsland: ' denotes feet, " denotes inches, cm. denotes centimiters, mm. denotes millimeters.
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And you will be well of remembering that about 3 cm = 1 inch.
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Nice design and features, but with the screen being alot heavier than the keyboard, working with it placed on your lap could be a little bit tricky.
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That's a really weird looking hinge, if you were trying to close the lid quickly wouldn't the screen and keyboard come crashing onto the table?
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.4" is amazing. It's too bad there isn't a way to see or touch this in person.
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That's a really weird looking hinge, if you were trying to close the lid quickly wouldn't the screen and keyboard come crashing onto the table?
I was thinking the exact same thing....Talk about awkward when you go to close this laptop..at least from the looks of it. But yeah the price is a bit much. I will however give them props for the thinnest, honestly would love to see one in person because that seems amazingly thin, which leads me to wonder about its durability.
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@kimsland: ' denotes feet, " denotes inches, cm. denotes centimiters, mm. denotes millimeters.
Yes I know
But saying .4 looks like 4
I read the link to the article and it said 0.4
That was my point (ie Best to quote the zero as well, plus that was the exact quote: 0.4" not .4")


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And you will be well of remembering that about 3 cm = 1 inch.
You mean 2.54cm=1 inch of course
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Too expensive for me... :-((
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This is a pretty sweet notebook but the cost (like the Macbook Air) is still WAY too high.
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I think I will break it the minute I start work on it, as I am not very good with stress and easily smash my hand on the thing in front of me, which mostly is my current laptop's touch-pad area. Though it looks kind of awkward with that strange hinge, it would have been better if this had touch and revolving scree, resembling a tablet, as because of its size and weight, I wouldn't mind using it like a tablet...
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Nobody I know, myself included would pay that much for a notebook. You could buy 3 decent ones for the price of just that one. Maybe I am the only 'poor' person on here !!
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specs look good but lot of money. Agree that its very thin but i don't think this is for those people who use laptop heavily. Atleast for me i want durable laptop and i don't think i am going to buy this one just to showoff my friends.
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Thats actually a good point
What is all this hype about thinner is better?
What exactly are they taking out?
Obviously there is zero shock absorption padding
I mean why thin anyway? Do people want to slip it up their shirt or something
It sits on a bench or on your lap usually!

I wonder if they can get any thinner than 0.4 My My, I can't wait for the 0.3" to be released, but don't turn it sideways cause it might vanish
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