Sunday, October 3, 2010

Dell Releases Adamo XPS: World’s Thinnest Laptop

In principle nice laptop & design, but very expensive, in particular in light of that it has still technical problems, even Dell is aware of. In partical is has only Dell monitor output port & Dell provides only free adaptor to DVI-D. Apparently noone told Dell (they should know this themselves) that people traveling with laptops need to give presentations and nearly all projectors still use VGA. After calling them they sold me by an Dell Adamo-XPS -> VGA adaptor (this should come for free I strongly believe !), however, this does not work properly yet with the Adamo XPS (they know this, but they still sold me the adaptor). It cuts off parts of the screen when projecting or resolution is very low when projecting. They said they are working on a solution (driver), but they should sort such problems out before selling the laptops. [caption id="attachment_430" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Dell Adamo XPS Side view"][/caption] Dell officially launched the Adamo XPS, the highest-end version of its designer ultra portable. Dell says it expects to "begin taking orders and shipping the Adamo XPS in time for the holidays." The ultra thin luxury laptop starts at $1,799. The system is ...

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