Dell Adamo XPS Laptop Has Pros and Cons

The new Dell Adamo XPS Laptop has a sexy new design that is centered around it being thin, amazingly thin. But thin is not the only adjective for this new offering to the Dell line. For what is considered to be a low-power laptop, it has pretty good performance. Now while the Dell Adamo XPS Laptop looks great, that look comes with a pretty hefty price tag and that is the primary con of this new Dell.

Dell marketing is promoting the new Adamo XPS Laptop as a "luxury brand notebook design for the luxury conscious consumer". Nice marketing but is the timing correct considering the state of the economy and especially the unemployment that we are grappling with right now in the United States.

The Dell Adamo XPS Laptop is just under 10mm thick and the design is impressive, especially for those that want their laptop to be a status symbol while at the local Starbucks. It will turn heads. The Dell Adamo XPS Laptop weighs just 3.2 lbs and that is with the 20WHr battery installed. And to open this thin devil you just swipe your finger over a touch sensitive sensor and - Poof! - the lid unlocks and you have access to the futuristic metal keyboard, 13.4 inch high-definition screen and the experience of Windows 7.

The Dell Adamo XPS Laptop has excellent response time. It comes with the Intel Core 2 Duo 1.4GHz processor, Integrated Intel graphics, 4GB dual channel DDR3-800MHz RAM and Thin Micro SSD 128GB drive. It can certainly run Windows 7 without missing a beat, surf the Internet and do video streaming, load your photos and build albums, watch tv shows and movies, run multiple applications and never really break a sweat. For the office types it seamlessly runs Windows with Outlook, huge Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations and Word documents all running at the same time.

But the Dell Adamo XPS Laptop has some Cons also. The first problem spot is the battery life of this laptop. According to Dell you can get a meager two hours and thirty-six minutes of life out of the battery. But in practice the real life of the battery seems to be closer to an hour and a half. So don't expect to travel too far with this laptop with the standard battery. Dell has plans for a six-cell battery but that will cost extra and you have to be able to swap the batteries quickly. That is another irritant with the Dell Adamo XPS Laptop - getting the battery out quickly is not easy.

The biggest problem facing the Dell Adamo XPS Laptop is the price tag. At $1799 it is simply out of the range of most people for what they can spend. From a business perspective it might be a useful laptop, but it needs a longer battery life.