Dell’s newly released Adamo laptop has been compared to the ultralight Apple MacBook Air and HP’s Voodoo Envy notebook. But is the Adamo’s as beautiful on the inside as the outside?
iFixit.com and TechRepublic have done a teardown of the Adamo beast. Adamo is nearly not as light as the MacBook Air, they say, but it offers more in terms of technology features.
Dell has also created a clever locking system that snaps the bottom plate of
the computer into place. That means no screws at the bottom giving the Adamo a cleaner look than the MacBook Air.
Adamo’s basic model comes with a 13.4-inch screen, a 1.2-GHz Intel
Core 2 Duo processor, 2-GB memory and 128-GB solid state drive. It also
offers two USB ports, one USB/eSATA port and a display port. And it carries a not-recession friendly price tag. The basic version of the Adamo will cost $2,000, while
a more expensive model costs $2,700.
Other highlights from the teardown:
- Adamo’s 11.1 V battery is rated at 40 Watt hours, better than
MacBook Air’s 7.2 V, 37 Watt hour battery. Overall operating time for
the Adamo is 5 hours, beating the MacBook Air by 30 minutes. - At 489 grams, the battery represents 27% of Adamo’s weight. Compare
that to the Macbook Air’s battery that weighs in at 287 grams or just
21% of the Air’s total weight.
Photos: iFixit and TechRepublic
