| Tuesday, March 17, 2009 |
09:23 - They should name the sub-models "William", "Lee", "Zak"...
http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/dell-adamo-announced-1-2ghz-core-2-duo-1-999/
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In the last few days I've been thrust into the unenviable position of trying to spec out a Dell laptop (long story). Just wrestling through the rat's nest that is their online store is enough to make me want to navigate Apple's just for fun. And at the end of it all I still don't know what it is I'm getting, whether the 15" Core 2 Duo from the Vostro line is really worth half as much as the 15" Core 2 Duo from the Latitude line which is worth half as much as the 15" Core 2 Duo from the Precision Mobile line or whatever. (Meanwhile, on the Apple side of the world, it's all 1066 MHz RAM and 250GB 7200-rpm drives as far as the eye can see. Just pick what screen size you want and go.)
And now, just to keep things simple, there's a new line: the Adamo.
Apparently it's supposed to compete with the MacBook Air, starting at $1999 (a stratospheric price in the PC laptop world where $400 is considered the low-end entry point) and touting itself as the thinnest laptop you can buy, with the likes of Rob Enderle calling it things like "a showcase for this commitment [to design and personalization] and a flagship product that will draw buyers to the brand". But whereas the Air gives you 1.6-1.8 GHz and NVidia graphics and everything else but an internal optical drive, the Adomo apparently offers:
...a 1.2GHz Core 2 Duo U9300 with integrated Intel X4500 graphics, 2GB of RAM, and a 128GB SSD, and it all weighs four pounds -- a pound more than the MacBook Air.
And all that for $200 more than the Air's base price. Such a deal.
Plus it looks like there's an elastic net on half the cover, to hold maps and things. Unless that's the "magnetic cover that hides the Microsoft-required Windows authenticity sticker".
Yeah. Way to deliver that value proposition there, guys.
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Brian Tiemann
