Regular readers of our reviews section will know we drooled all over Dell’s Adamo a few weeks back. Its metal slab design, superb build quality and all-round bloody loveliness won over most of the PC Pro crew and even elicited reluctantly positive grunts from several of MacUser’s troops too.

So what’s this Dell is now teasing? (Click to enlarge)

Puzzlingly, it’s a new 9.99mm-thin Adamo XPS laptop that looks remarkably like a MacBook Air.

And that’s all we get. No info. No specs. Not even a full-frontal photo to ogle. The reason is that it’s merely a concept – the physical product might not even exist.

Released from Texas yesterday to mark the media’s obsession with the totally meaningless, entirely man-made 09/09/09 date, it’s a glimpse of what might come in the future. An even more streamlined Adamo with graceful silver curves to contrast with the existing model’s angular edges. Apparently it’s “as beautiful as today’s date is unique”. Right.

It looks to me like Dell trying to take on Apple by being more like Apple. Perhaps Jobs could have used it to liven up the lame presentation yesterday…