Adamo: Dell Ultra-Thin Laptop is coming

MacBook Air will get a rival when Dell realize to launch The Adamo, a thin and light laptop. Actually there is no word about this notebook, Dell has listed some laptop accesories that called Adamo Thirteen, Very likely Dell Adamo will be available 13-inch display screen.

It is said that this upcoming thin-and-light notebook also will be equipped with a 13-inch display and some accessories including external hard drive. Dell Adamo has its own website that is currently under construction.

Throw Adamo and Dell into a search engine, and you get nothing. Well, make that almost nothing.  But some people suceed read Dell Adamo features through Google Cache, this laptops comes with:

• Slot-load DVD burners
• Display Port-to-DVI
• Blu-ray drivers
• External hard drive (HDD)
• AC Adapter, or USB Flash Drive.
• This laptop may feature a Display Port or built-in optical drive.

No further details were given other than it will be marketed as the world’s thinnest laptop sometime around February. The New York Times also speculates that the Adamo notebook will arrive as an ultra-thin portable system, and infuses their claims with a little credibility by referencing the nervous body language of Dell executive Michael Tatelman when asked about them making a laptop to compete with the MacBook Air.

It remains to be seen whether Dell and its manufacturing partners in Asia can come up with something that rivals the aesthetics of Apple’s MacBook Air. It is pretty clear, though, that Dell could beat Apple on price.

“One of the things they could do real differently from Apple would be cheap,” said Roger Kay, president of Endpoint Technologies, an analyst firm. “They could shave $400 off the MacBook Air price pretty easily.”

The related story:

• Dell Adamo: Boast DisplayPort, Blu-ray drive (update on December 27)