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Dell Adamo

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  • Dell Adamo back
  • Dell Adamo front
  • Dell Adamo side
  • Dell Adamo keyboard
  • Dell Adamo closed
  • Dell Adamo rear
  • Dell Adamo interior

Verdict

A stunning piece of design to rival any Apple offering, and the price is surprisingly reasonable

Review Date: 12 Aug 2009

Price when reviewed: £1,156 (£1,329 inc VAT)

Buy it now for: £1098.99

Overall Rating
5 stars out of 6

Features & Design
6 stars out of 6

Value for Money
4 stars out of 6

Performance
3 stars out of 6

PCPRO Recommended

Battery life, light use
  • Adamo
  • 5hr 3min
0
Lenovo T500
+100%

The light-use test is the absolute longest you can expect the battery to last with careful power management.

Battery life, heavy use
  • Adamo
  • 1hr 31min
0
Lenovo T500

The intensive-use score is the battery life during very demanding, CPU and hard disk-intensive operations with power management turned off.

Overall application benchmark score
  • Adamo
  • 0.68
0
3.2GHz Pentium D PC

PC Pro's application benchmarks test real-world performance in a range of applications. Click here for more information.

3D performance (crysis) low settings
  • Adamo
  • N/A
0
Mesh Matrix II

Our 3D gaming benchmarks test gaming performance in Crysis, which remains one of the most challenging games available. Setting is 1,024 x 768 at low detail.

User comments

Any chance of a photo of the COA sticker under the magnetic cover behind the screen? I've seen this described but would be interested to see how they've actually done it.

By davidbryant4 on 13 Aug 2009

First truly fair Mac vs. PC comparison?

Could you please do an article pitting Adamo the against the MacBook Air? I think these 2 products are probably as close as you could get to a proper 'like-for-like' comparison.

From where I'm standing, the MacBook Air suddenly doesn't seem so 'expensive' and under-specced. Infact compared to the Adamo, it looks positively better value and better designed!

By ihsan on 13 Aug 2009

David Bryant - I'm hoping to get a picture of the COA sticker today for you, so I'll put it on the gallery when I get my hands on it. That's a lovely little design touch.

Ihsan - I'm workong on it!

By Mikey_Jennings on 14 Aug 2009

Interior image is now in the gallery

David - I've got a picture of the Adamo's interior, now, showing the magnetic strip and the COA sticker beneath.

It's the seventh image in the gallery at the top of the review.

Hope that's ok!

By Mikey_Jennings on 14 Aug 2009

Cheers! Is it a normal size COA sticker or a smaller one?

By davidbryant4 on 14 Aug 2009

Cheers! Is it a normal size COA sticker or a smaller one?

By davidbryant4 on 14 Aug 2009

COA sticker

David - it looks to be a smaller one to fit in that tiny space!

By Mikey_Jennings on 14 Aug 2009

You're right ihsan but the Air is overpriced and so is the Adamo. I do happen to prefer the styling of the Adamo. It looks amazing. Shame it has Dell written on it though

By TimoGunt on 17 Aug 2009

The problem with macbooks is that they have an apple symbol on them and a smug consumer drone attached.

By dodge1963 on 22 Aug 2009

smug consumer drone?

I'm always fascinated by the attitude of some Windows users to Apple users. While Apple-fans take pot-shots at Windows, the Windows fans take pot-shots at Apple USERS. This sort of bigoted response seems to me to stem from a deep-seated insecurity; they think the Apple guys might be on to something, but they're afraid to make the move because they'd have to go form being a Windows "expert" to an Apple "novice", and that sort of challenge to their innate sense of superiority is too scary to contemplate, so they lash out at the people they secretly envy. You see the same kind of thing in Religious Extremists. Sad really.

By lgj001 on 17 Sep 2009

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