News - Dell Adamo now up for pre-order in the UK

**HEXUS** · 25-03-2009, 10:47 AM

Luxury notebook expected to ship in four weeks, prices start at £1,649.

**sawyen** · 25-03-2009, 11:29 AM

My boss just preordered one.. all I can say is its just completely silly..

PS. He also preordered the Mac Air a week before launch in the US..

deep pocket ppl...

**scaryjim** · 25-03-2009, 11:32 AM

Originally Posted by The Article

So, any takers?

Not me. Waiting for Yukon and Congo

**transylvanic** · 25-03-2009, 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by sawyen

deep pocket ppl...

No kidding. I don't even find it impressive or attractive in any way. Never mind the fact you could get two fully-featured VAIOs for that price.

**gagaga** · 25-03-2009, 12:37 PM

I think you're missing the point people.

You don't buy this if your budget is £500 or you want to use it to transcode 1080 mkvs.

You buy it as a second PC for travelling - a 1.2GHz dual core is plenty fast enough for what these PCs will be doing for 99% of the time.

I've got a Sony TZ (also 1.2GHz but much older Intel GFX) and it does me fine as my travlling PC - I've got a system at home to do all the heavy duty stuff.

**0iD** · 25-03-2009, 12:41 PM

Again, hope the battery is good, because it's non-removable.

**strike-down** · 25-03-2009, 12:43 PM

£1,649 = Fail.

The XPS laptops look good, have far better specs, and are cheaper. I actually prefer the look of the XPS's.

**SuGaR847** · 25-03-2009, 01:47 PM

With this sort of money I could easily build a Core i7 rig and still have cash to spare for a netbook. The price is rediculously high.

**transylvanic** · 25-03-2009, 02:03 PM

Originally Posted by SuGaR847

With this sort of money I could easily build a Core i7 rig and still have cash to spare for a netbook. The price is rediculously high.

You could afford a 24" screen, top GPU, you could splash out on a custom paint job...

£1649 / £230 (Lenovo S10E offer on ebuyer) = 7.17 netbooks.

**gagaga** · 25-03-2009, 03:41 PM

Originally Posted by transylvanic

You could afford a 24" screen, top GPU, you could splash out on a custom paint job...

£1649 / £230 (Lenovo S10E offer on ebuyer) = 7.17 netbooks.

You'd be a pretty good system builder to get that all in under 2kg and portable enough to fit in a slipcase ... what sort of battery are you using?

**Breezey** · 26-03-2009, 12:06 AM

I cant see any benifit in buyig one of these over a top end netbook like the HP 2140 for less than 1/3 of the price, granted its an atom over a core 2 but theres not going to be a great deal in it, and when ION hits well its going to be game over for dell on this one imo.

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