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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

Details
Part Code Admire
Review Date 12 Aug 2009
Price ex VAT £1,156
Price inc VAT £1,329
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
Warranty
Warranty final 1yr on-site, 1yr collect and return
Physical specifications
Dimensions 331 x 243 x 18mm (WDH)
Weight 1.800kg
Travelling weight 1.9kg
Weight with extended battery N/A
Travelling weight with extended battery N/A
Processor and memory
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo U9300
RAM capacity 2.00GB
Memory type DDR3
Screen and video
Screen size 13.4in
Resolution screen horizontal 1,366
Resolution screen vertical 768
Resolution 1366 x 768
Graphics chipset Intel GMA 4500
Graphics card RAM 256MB
VGA (D-SUB) outputs 0
HDMI outputs 0
S-Video outputs 0
DVI-I outputs 0
DVI-D outputs 0
DisplayPort outputs 1
Drives
Capacity 128GB
Hard disk usable capacity 119GB
Spindle speed N/A
Internal disk interface SATA
Hard disk Samsung SSD
Optical disc technology N/A
Optical drive N/A
Networking
Wired adapter speed 1,000Mbits/sec
802.11a support yes
802.11b support yes
802.11g support yes
802.11 draft-n support yes
Integrated 3G adapter no
Other Features
Wireless hardware on/off switch no
Wireless key-combination switch yes
Modem no
ExpressCard34 slots 0
ExpressCard54 slots 0
PC Card slots 0
USB ports (downstream) 3
eSATA ports 1
PS/2 mouse port no
9-pin serial ports 0
Parallel ports 0
Optical S/PDIF audio output ports 0
Electrical S/PDIF audio ports 0
3.5mm audio jacks 1
SD card reader no
Memory Stick reader no
MMC (multimedia card) reader no
Smart Media reader no
Compact Flash reader no
xD-card reader no
Pointing device type Touchpad
Audio chipset Dell HD Audio
Hardware volume control? no
Integrated microphone? yes
Integrated webcam? yes
Camera megapixel rating 1.3mp
TPM no
Fingerprint reader no
Smartcard reader no
Carry case no
Operating system and software
Operating system Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
OS family Windows Vista
Recovery method Recovery partition
Battery and performance tests
Battery life, light use 5hr 3min
Battery life, heavy use 1hr 31min
Overall application benchmark score 0.68
Office application benchmark score 0.72
2D graphics application benchmark score 0.76
Encoding application benchmark score 0.59
Multitasking application benchmark score 0.65
3D performance (crysis) low settings N/A
3D performance setting N/A
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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