Is it dead? Is it not dead? There was quite a bit of confusion about the fate of Dell’s Adamo XPS and now there’s an official explanation of the whole mess: More

Is it dead? Is it not dead? There was quite a bit of confusion about the fate of Dell’s Adamo XPS and now there’s an official explanation of the whole mess: More

Well hello again, Dell Adamo XPS . Though the incredibly thin and uniquely designed laptop disappeared from Dell.com last week and we received official comment that it was a “limited edition product with a finite number of systems available,” the Adamo XPS has reappeared in its $2,000 glory on the company’s site. According to Dell’s blog, it was merely just a move to restock the inventory and direct customers to retailers that had fresh stock — well why didn’t you just say that Dell! And do not fear about the Adamo brand, Dell reports that all is well as it starts to apply the design to other lines, just as we saw yesterday with the Vostro V13 . We’re still a bit confused by the reappearance, but it sure is good to see you again, Adamo XPS.

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Dell’s Adamo is a beautiful, slender machine with girly guts. But now it’s coaxing you to ignore the sissy insides with its distracting new $999 base price tag. If you prefer your Adamo more beefed up, there’s always the more powerful Desire model, but that one will run you about $1800. Yikes, at least the basemodel, Admire, is now a reasonably cheap catch. [ Dell via Engadget ]

Dell’s Adamo is a beautiful, slender machine with girly guts. But now it’s coaxing you to ignore the sissy insides with its distracting new $999 base price tag. If you prefer your Adamo more beefed up, there’s always the more powerful Desire model, but that one will run you about $1800. Yikes, at least the basemodel, Admire, is now a reasonably cheap catch.

You know what’s hard to resist? This . You know what else is difficult to turn a blind eye to? One of the sexiest machines Dell has ever made, at a price point that’s below the all-important four figure mark. Starting today, the Adamo Admire is sporting an altogether sultry base price of $999, which nets you a 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor, Windows 7 Home (64-bit), 2GB of DDR3 RAM and a 128GB solid state drive. If that’s a little weak for your tastes, the upmarket Adamo Desire has also undergone a price reduction, enabling you to get a 2.1GHz Core 2 Duo chip, 4GB of memory, integrated mobile broadband and a 256GB SSD for $1,799 — a full $500 less than it was in Octobe r.

Corning’s darn-near-impenetrable Gorilla glass certainly isn’t new — in fact, we spied it in a few of Motion Computing’s tablets just a few months ago — but it’s still not commonplace on mainstream gizmos. Yet. SmartPlanet sat down with Dr. Donnell Walton, senior applications engineer at Corning, in order to discuss the merits of the display technology as well as its importance in the gadget space. The discussion also mentioned that both Motorola’s Droid and Dell’s Adamo (not to mention Cowon’s S9 PMP ) are sporting the glass, which acts to make displays “damage-resistant.” Not surprisingly, the company is seeing huge demand in the smartphone arena, where touchscreen-centric phones are being shoved into pockets at random and then costing manufacturers big bucks as return rates creep up. It’s a pretty interesting read if you’re into that type of thing, and yes, we did just give you permission to try and split your Droid display wide open in a moment of frustration

Corning’s darn-near-impenetrable Gorilla glass certainly isn’t new — in fact, we spied it in a few of Motion Computing’s tablets just a few months ago — but it’s still not commonplace on mainstream gizmos. Yet. SmartPlanet sat down with Dr. Donnell Walton, senior applications engineer at Corning, in order to discuss the merits of the display technology as well as its importance in the gadget space. The discussion also mentioned that both Motorola’s Droid and Dell’s Adamo (not to mention Cowon’s S9 PMP ) are sporting the glass, which acts to make displays “damage-resistant.” Not surprisingly, the company is seeing huge demand in the smartphone arena, where touchscreen-centric phones are being shoved into pockets at random and then costing manufacturers big bucks as return rates creep up.

You might’ve seen the Adamo XPS cameo on this month’s Engadget Show, or viewed our unboxing, but in case you’re averse to the long form, really want to dive deep, or perhaps just use some other trite phrase to describe yourself, we’ve done an in-depth video hands-on with the world’s slimmest laptop. The verdict? Well, it’s a well-made machine with a significant issue of a price to performance imbalance. Check out the video after the break to see if all this sexiness can win you over. Continue reading Adamo XPS hands-on impressions Adamo XPS hands-on impressions originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:00:00 EST