UPDATED: Dell Teases Thinnest Laptop to Date

Author Gordon Kelly
Published 8th Oct 2009
UPDATED: Dell Teases Thinnest Laptop to Date
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Has Dell learned from the original Adamo?


The company has performed an identical public tease of its follow-up: the 'Adamo XPS' to journalists in the US this week and we're left with very familiar (and therefore wary) feelings to those we experienced when the same trick was done with its overpriced, underpowered predecessor in January.

Consequently Dell informally pulled out the Adamo XPS, waved it around briefly, said nothing about the specifications and put it away again. What we can gather however from snaps taken by prolific US bloggers Gizmodo are that this new model is even thinner than the original and seemingly much thinner even than a MacBook Air or Sony X Series.


Look even closer on some Gizmodo shots and a USB port and SD card reader make appearances while Engadget managed to get some evidence of a rather unusual hinge mechanism which in all likelihood is necessary given traditional corner hinges simply wouldn't work with this form factor.


If I were to make a stab at things I'd say we were witnessing an Intel CULV machine and it has to feature a solid state drive - possibly an mSATA given a 2.5in HDD looks to be thicker than the laptop itself. Sky high pricing also seems a given.

We're intrigued Dell, don't let us down again...

Update: Dell has shown off a few official teaser shots. What do we learn? It's still crazily thin!




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Gizmodo

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comment Steve said on 9th October 2009

@ Tony Walker

Cheers, the 311 is nice, but I'm still quite keen on the X. Guess I'll wait for a few reviews before I make any decisions. Although the price for the... more

comment Max Power said on 9th October 2009

The 311 is getting rave reviews all over. I think Ion 2 with CULV will make for a cheap and decently powerful netbook. Seriously if Acer/Asus don't come out with one of these armed... more

comment NJoy said on 9th October 2009

azza21, i7s are 45W parts, there aren't many 15" laptops that have cooling solutions capable of it. 25/30W will be dual-core Arrandales

comment Nick Gilbert said on 21st October 2009

@azza21 Post your source where Intel says they're dropping it next year. I think you just made that up. The Atom uses less than 10% of the power of an i7 and will be around for man... more

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