Dell hammers final nail into the Adamo coffin
Summary: Dell has finally pulled the plug on the Adamo ultra-portable line.
Dell has finally pulled the plug on the Adamo ultra-portable line.
The Adamo was Dell's answer to Apple's MacBook Air and featured a number of cutting-edge technologies - ultra-thin, ultra-portable, built-in SSD, built-in 3G. It was a cool bit of kit, but with a starting price of $2,000, it was just too much for a customers to swallow, especially given the less than stellar performance it offered.
CNET learned that the Adamo was being discontinued yesterday, but today a search of the Dell website for Adamo confirms that it's gone.
According to CNET, the Adamo brand may return later this year, falling under one of Dell's existing consumer brands (such as the Inspiron, XPS, or Alienware). We'll have to wait and see.
This isn't a victim of Apple's MacBook Air, more a victim of its own design and price.
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RE: Dell hammers final nail into the Adamo coffin
This same sort of scenario is being played out in the tablet marketplace, or should I say Apple's tablet marketplace. With the consumer rather than the geek community in mind Apple has completely changed the game in tablets. Reading elsewhere on ZDNet I find that Apple has used its bankroll to muscle the competition's suppliers to the point that in an odd bit of irony Apple is able to underprice the competition without making it a race to commodity. Brilliant. Dell? Not so much. I wonder if Michael has updated his resume?
RE: Dell hammers final nail into the Adamo coffin
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What Idiot would buy a Premium Dell?
Dell = the junkiest computers ever built. Period.
Dell used to have decent laptops
Problem is, nobody else is really that much better.
Just got a new Dell Optiplex at work