14 DAY TRIAL // Early this year, Round Rock, Texas-based Dell, one of the world's leading vendors of portable computer systems, announced the introduction of the much-anticipated Adamo laptop, an ultra-portable computer system that has been designed to compete with the likes of Apple's MacBook Air or HP's Voodoo Envy. Featuring an ultra-thin and stylish design, the new laptop was to be made available in two different configurations, both of which were based on Intel's low-power processor platform. One of the main drawbacks of said system, despite its appealing design, was that it came priced at relatively restrictive price points. However, it looks like Dell learned from its mistakes and has recently reduced the prices on both models.
The much-hyped Dell Adamo portable computer system has now been made available for as little as US$1,499 for the 1.2GHz-powered model. This is a good US$500 price reduction over the company's launch price of US$1,999, for the same model. The higher-end model, which boasts an SSD storage solution and the 1.4GHz processor, will now be available for as “little” as US$2,299, down from the initial price of US$2,700. The company appears to continue to show love to Intel, and has not changed anything about the system's configuration.
While these price reductions are more than welcomed, there are still way over the buying power of most notebook consumers. The new pricing scheme better positions Dell's stylish Adamo notebook to Apple's basic MacBook Air model, which comes priced at US$1,499 and features a 1.86GHz processor, 2GB of memory and 120GB hard drive space. However, the highest-performance MacBook Air is priced at US$1,799 and boasts a speedier 2.13GHz processor, 2 GB of memory and the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics solution.
It will be interesting to see whether the Adamo will continue to see further price reductions, which could make it a better competitor for the aforementioned MacBook Air and Voodoo Envy.