-Dell announces new Adamo laptop
-Super thin premium power laptop
-Set to duke it out with Apple MacBook Air

Nick Broughall writes from Australia:

It's as sexy as a pillow fight between Scarlett Johansson and Megan Fox, as light (or even lighter) as an Olsen twin and as skinny as Mischa Barton) and now Dell has announced the local specs and pricing of their new Adamo notebook.

The price: $3,699. For your money, you get:

Intel® Core 2 Duo processors with Intel® Centrino ® technology

· DDR3 system memory

· 13.4-inch 16:9 HD display

· Draft-Wireless N

· High-performance solid state drives standard

· Mobile Broadband* option

· Up to 5+ hours of battery life (preliminary)

· 2 USB ports, 1 USB/eSATA combo port, Display Port, RJ-45 port

· Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition SP1, 64-bit

There will also be a range of optional, Adamo branded accessories, like an external DVD or Blu-ray drive, an 8GB USB key, external hard drives (in 250GB or 500GB flavours) and monitor cables.

So, now the question we all face is whether or not the Macbook Air or the Dell Adamo is the catwalk notebook of choice. I know which way I'm leaning, how about you?

Adrian Covert writes from the US:

Dell fully unveiled their Adamo laptop and it appears to fit somewhere between the Voodoo Envy 133 and MacBook Air with a 1.2 GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 128-gigabyte SSD and 1.6cm thickness.

At 1.6cm, the Adamo is one of the thinnest laptops ever, sitting 2mm closer to the ground than the Envy (1.8cm). But at 1.8kg, it's heavier than both the Air (1.3kg) and the Envy (1.5kg). Its machined, one-piece aluminium chassis and glass display round out the premium features found on the Adamo.

The 13.4-inch Adamo has a 720p, 16:9 screen, 2-gigabytes of DDR3 RAM (max 4GB), 802.11n wi-fi, Bluetooth 2.1, and is currently rated for 5+ hours of battery life. It also has 2 USB ports+USB/eSATA combo port, and connects to DisplayPort, HDMI, VGA and DVI with optional cables. The laptop runs on the Intel Mobile 965 Express chipset, making use of GMX4500 integrated graphics for its visual juice.

The use of the Core 2 Duo means that the Adamo runs Windows Home Premium (64-bit, to be exact), and will come in either white or black colorways. The $US2000 configuration comes fitted with the above specs while a $US2700 config comes with a 1.4 GHz processor, 4 GB RAM and an AT&T 3G WWAN card. Pre-orders will begin starting today, and the first units will ship on March 26.

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