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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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