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Dell's Adamo Goes After MacBook Air
MojoKid writes "Adamo, pronounced 'A-dahm-o,' means 'to fall in love with' in Latin. Dell is certainly hoping you'll fall in love with this notebook's looks as well as its functionality. The Adamo's chassis is milled from a single piece of aluminum and features precision detailing with a scalloped backlit keyboard. Even the fan holes, which are punched out squares, have an attractive modern design. The Adamo features a thin 0.65-inch profile and weighs four pounds. The new ultra-portable will also offer Intel Core 2 Duo processors and DDR3 memory (up to 4GB), a 13.4-inch 16:9 HD display and a 128GB SSD hard drive. Pricing starts at $1,999 with Vista Ultimate 64." The Dell infomercial spokesmodel (video at the bottom of the link) concludes, "Adamo resulted from the union of technology with pleasure for the style-conscious individualist." OK, so he's no Steve Jobs.
They must be crazy to be running that out in the current economic environment.
We'll see how mant they managed to sell...
What's the upcharge to NOT get Vista Ultimate 64 on that?
"Adamo resulted from the union of technology with pleasure...."
A laptop is not the first thing I thought of when seeing that phrase. Not that sort of laptop, at least.
An Adamo without Vista is like chocolate cake without mustard.
Give me the computer without slathering it up with old smelly mayonnaise, please. Thanks.
Could I maybe get it for $1000 without Vista?
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
Dell Ad Exec #1: We need a foreign spokesman to give our product a refined cosmopolitan vibe. We can save some money by using an employee.
Exec #2: How about one of mexican janitors?
Exec #3: How about one of our indian support staff?
Dell Ad Exec #1: Ok, maybe not. I think my cock-tease secretary mentioned her boyfriend was European. That's close enough.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
"People called Romanes they go the house"?
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
Adamo. For all your computer love needs. I guess.
New slogan: "Adamo. There's a port for that."
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Does spooge wipe more easily from a solid block of aluminium?
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
I read your comment "I had no idea that some people would go to such lengths to generate something that is just such a completely and utterly useless, pointless waste of space and time." and thought it was spot on to describe the Adamo.
Cheers
* Carthago Delenda Est *
Yeah, holy shit. Marketing a product as being cool and hip is the least cool, most deeply unhip thing they could have done. Fuck firings, I'm surprised there haven't been any suicides.
Money quote right there, baby!
Life is not for the lazy.
first. the first week of latin. damn.
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Side effects may include gullibility and temporary retardation
That's ADMIRAL Adamo to you, nugget.
Shop as usual. And avoid panic buying.
yes, but it's a sony...
And you know what they say : "better safe than Sony".
May contain traces of nut.
Made from the freshest electrons.
It's a MacBook Air killer because, at 4 pounds, if you drop it on the Air a few times, the Air will probably break first.
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I took my batteries out to save the weight.
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http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=QUJqWc6seYk
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