Dell Adamo notebooks fall into the luxury range of Dell’s laptops and netbooks and represent the high-end, ultra-thin laptops that will impress you with design and quality. This range of laptops is aimed at luxury-conscious consumers. The design and features of this laptop will make you fall in love with this machine at first sight. It is elegant in its thin profile and the ultra-thin screen with a 13.4-inche diagonal, is impressive due to its reduced edges and its glass surface. It comes in two different designs, silver or black – The Adamo Pearl and Onyx – with its slim design and 1.8 kg weight.

Design

The Dell Adamo has ultra-slim elegant design. Its glass screen 13.4-inche diagonal WLED display with a native resolution of 1366 x 768 offers bright colours and sharp detail. It is great for work or play.

Dell’s Adamo notebook features a chassis made of aluminum that has got no screws.

Dell Adamo laptop has got illuminated keyboard that offers excellent typing experience and is great to work when it’s dark. The full-size keys are comfortable and having them illuminated gives the luxury experience. The backlit keyboard is a big change from the typical Dell laptop keyboard, the keys are similar to Sony Vaio or MacBook but they are slightly scalloped.

As for the touchpad, this one goes one up on regular notebooks as it boasts multitouch capability. You can use the following gestures such as pinching, rotating and scrolling. For those who don’t like to use the multitouch function, it is possible to disable it. The touchpad is smaller than the one of the MacBook Air. It has got the left- and right-click mouse buttons that are not typical for Apple laptop.

Performance

The Dell Adamo is famous not only for its design but also for its performance. It works well for web surfing, editing documents and watching multimedia. However, if you are looking for a gaming notebook, the Adamo laptop is not the right choice. The Adamo comes with dual-core Intel ultra-low-voltage processor. This gives plenty of power for office work and other everyday tasks.

The Dell Adamo laptop comes in two different configurations – Desire and Admire. The Adamo Desire features a 13.4-inch 720p White LED display and powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo SL9600 2.1GHz processor, integrated graphics, a 256GB SSD for storage and up to 4GB of DDR3 RAM. It includes a 1.3 Megapixel webcam, an eSATA/USB combo port, Bluetooth and WiFi 802.11n support.

The Adamo Admire features 1.4 GHz processor, integrated graphics, a 128GB SSD for storage and up to 2GB of DDR3 RAM.

The Dell Adamo’s battery lasted around 3.5 hours when a number of office programmes are running, Wi-Fi is turned on and YouTube videos are being streamed constantly.

Conclusion

In general, the Dell Adamo attracts by its remarkable design. It is extremely thin with gorgeous aluminum and glass screen. The Dell Adamo offers excellent typing experience provided by illuminated keyboard. It can be considered as a luxury purchase for wealthy technology lovers. On the other hand,  the Dell Adamo laptops are a bit expensive, there is no optical drive provided and battery is not replaceable by user. Being a luxury ultraportable, it is a bit heavy.

The price for Dell Adamo Admire starts from £1,099 and Adamo Desire from £1,649.

Explore the features of this luxury machine at: Adamo by Dell.

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