Comments on: First look: Dell Adamo 13

By: Tim Danton

Tim Danton — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:36:37 +0000

@another David Good point! It is definitely an aluminium chassis, so my Dell source may have been wrong (maybe the holes have to be blown out? Answers on a postcard…) or there may be some fancy manufacturing trick where you add a layer of magnetic material which then gets removed.

Would help to explain that price!

By: another David

another David — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:02:50 +0000

“Note that the holes at the back of the machine are square, not round; this makes the manufacturing process far more difficult (I’m assured magnets are involved to remove the squares)”

So this can’t be an aluminium chassis then(?) as I was under the impression that aluminium isn’t magnetic…..

By: David

David — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:36:33 +0000

Re the comments from the poster above about Dell becoming expensive, I can only agree. I’ve regularly bought computers from them for several years, but last week I bought a laptop from Toshiba. The price of the Dell business laptops has gone up and up, and the service has gone down – 3-years on-site used to be the standard, but now it’s 1-year CAR.

I have no problems with the quality of their computers, but the way their prices have gone I’m having no alternative but to look elsewhere.

By: big_D

big_D — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:35:07 +0000

Cole,

Have you looked at the strength of the dollar against the Euro? They are an American company and they source most of the components from outside the Euro zone.

By: Cole

Cole — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:25:57 +0000

It’s incredible how expensive Dell has become. In January they raised (in the Euro zone) all their upgrade options by 10%. Last month they also increased their base prices around 7.5%. The value for money just isn’t there like it used to be.

By: First look: Dell Adamo 13

First look: Dell Adamo 13 — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:04:30 +0000

[...] News Sources wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptI caught a glimpse of the Dell Adamo concept design at a pre-Christmas briefing last year, where Dell was so nervous about security they banned our phones (little realising that my faithful HTC Touch’s camera is barely worthy of the name).So it was with some pleasure that I could finally get my hands on a production model at Dell’s Versailles-based event today. And I have to say, it’s a very impressive piece of kit.Dell makes much of the fact that the body is machined from one piece of metal (ra [...]