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Dell Adamo thirteen
By: Jamshed Avari   |   Jul 21, 2009
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Beautiful construction
Undeniable style
Weak performance, extremely high price

Adamo is Dell’s name for a new line of slim, stylish, price-no-bar laptops. The first of these is the Adamo thirteen, a sculpted rectangular slab no more than 0.65 inches thick and available in either Onyx black or Pearl white. The looks are unlike anything Dell has produced before, with a strong industrial feel and textured etched aluminum incorporating multiple patterns and textures, which make it feel minimalist, yet indulgent. The materials are top-notch and even the showy transparent box it comes in and the slim power brick are nicely thought out. The whole point is to look good and stand out from the crowd, which is something the Adamo line should do very well. The price of such style? A cool Rs. 1,20,000 onwards.


Opening the lid you’ll first see the 13.4-inch screen which is bright and sharp, but surrounded by a rather thick black border. It’s also completely glossy, which looks great but isn’t the most usable indoors. The unique scalloped keyboard with its slightly concave flat keys and white backlighting is mostly comfortable to use, except for the lowest row of keys which is somewhat obstructed by the rim of the main body. The trackpad boasts a single multi-touch gesture: pinch-and-spread zooming. You also have circular scrolling, which lets you drag along the right or bottom edges and continue to run your finger in a circle to keep scrolling. We found the gesture detection a bit too sensitive, and had to adjust it in the software settings.


The metal and glass lid is sturdy and solid, and is hinged about an inch lower than the rear edge in order to accommodate the laptop’s power, Ethernet, and expansion ports. It’s an unusual design, but helps keep things thin all around. The two USB and one combo USB/eSATA ports at the back (in addition to a headphones socket on the side) are a pleasant surprise for a laptop of this size. Also in the back are the stereo speakers, resulting in pretty hollow-sounding audio playback. Strangely, there’s no Kensington lock slot to be found, but there is a SIM card slot for cellular data access, once that becomes available here. In the absence of an optical drive, at least an SD card reader would have come in handy, but one hasn’t been included.

Other than that, little design touches are everywhere. Another glass strip above the keyboard houses a row of touch-sensitive volume and media control buttons while the power button itself changes from white to orange when the battery is running low.

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The macbook pro 13" is by far a smarter choice.. u get almost an high end graphics processor and better features at half the cost.

i cannot imagine dell pricing its products so high , they've left apple far behind! what are they thinking!! The macbooks have " Beautiful construction & Undeniable style" too!

can someone give me one good reason to buy this piece of shit??
and add to this, its accompanied by this resource hogging monster called "Windows VISTA" !!

I guess Dell's trying to create a more classy image for itself which it can never have.. end of the day, every second computer owner on earth has a dell! booo hooo!
Shyam Bhat @ Sep 21, 2009
dell doesnt have a big enuf fanbase to expect sales of outrageously priced gadgets,leave that to apple people
aa @ Jul 26, 2009
you can buy a killer gaming laptop for this much...what a waste
sagalime @ Jul 23, 2009
hahahahaha!! the most crappy laptop specs i've seen in a long time..
The Sin @ Jul 22, 2009
u would have compared this laptop against the other two- THINKPAD X301 and MACBOOK AIR
pilot @ Jul 22, 2009
And it's got lousy build quality.
Angad @ Jul 21, 2009
If price no bar then grab it guys .!
it's dell
Ishan @ Jul 21, 2009
yeah a mac book air is a much better option considering rate performance and operating system and the air is much thinner for the style statement it would work better
asd @ Jul 21, 2009
I think if some one wants to spend tht much he would go for mac book air
sandy @ Jul 21, 2009
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