Not sure when this went down, but tipster Harvey pointed us in the direction of Dell’s online Adamo page, and the luxury, über-thin laptop has had a serious price reduction.
Back when the fashionista PC launched in March, it had a starting pricetag of $3,699. Checking out the page today, you can grab the entry level model for just $2,199, a $1,500 price drop. Even the premium “Desire” version only clocks in at $2,799. Considering it comes with a 128GB SSD, the Adamo has pretty much gone from “luxury” status to “bargain” status overnight.
[Dell – Thanks Harvey!]
Robert
Monday, July 20, 2009 at 1:26 PMHurray! quite frankly the old price was embarrasing for Dell, all reports said it was slow, it made the MacBook Pro 15 and MacBook Air look like a bargain!
Now that the price is more attractive, might be worth a look.
Rob
Ryan
Monday, July 20, 2009 at 1:33 PMI might be reading this wrong but why would a premium notebook like this only have integrated graphics?
Robert
Monday, July 20, 2009 at 2:22 PMIt’s a premium *ultraportable* (like macbook air), so can only fit integrated graphics.
Tony
Monday, July 20, 2009 at 3:14 PMI was over at The Good Guys and they had a display model there.
My gosh, its a sexy beast. I didn’t like it how the keys weren’t tapered. I kept making typos with my fat fingers.
As for the price drop, i’d buy one if i could salary sacrafice. Damn laws have changed for that.
Thomas Hambleton
Monday, July 20, 2009 at 4:12 PMI do find the Adamo a quite sexy piece of kit, historically questionable build quality aside it’s nice to see Dell pushing good looking design along for the PC platform with their Studio lines, ect like Apple has been doing for their platform for many years.
The current crop of Toshiba laptops look incredibly hideous, I am currently shopping for a cheap laptop and was amazed to find the Toshiba Satellite series design looks like it came from 2004-5. Pity for them I guess.
Thomas Hambleton
Monday, July 20, 2009 at 5:00 PMYou know what I also like? The ports on the BACK of the laptop! It seems every manufacturer and their dog wants to do away with ports on the back of the laptop and have the apple style screen that folds over the back of the base when you open it, my HP Mini has it…
This annoys me :P