Thinner than a thin-crust pizza
Taking tantalisation and teasing to a whole new level, Dell whipped out its mystery-cloaked Adamo XPS notebook at an event yesterday, only to slip it back from whence it came before anyone could get a good look at it.
Luckily Engadget's trigger- happy photographer managed to snap a few shots before the waif-like sliver of a laptop disappeared from view. Not that it had much substance to gawp at in the first place, mind.
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In an attempt to become more alluring by shrouding itself in secrecy, Dell has neglected to release any details about its upcoming offering, with the only detail available being that it's goddamn thin. Anorexic thin, even by ultra-thin laptop standards. At its thickest point, it measures just 9.99 mm, just over half as thick as the MacBook Air.
On closer inspection the pictures seem to imply a hinge design, and the sheer thinness of it means it's highly unlikely there'll be a powerful CPU or discrete graphics card in it. Heck, we're not even sure there's a battery in it at this point. Perhaps the reason Dell has only ever waved it about and not actually switched it on.
As Kate Moss would probably testify, anything that thin has had to make difficult sacrifices, so don't put any money on the machine an eight-hour battery life or ports a-plenty.
It's also a fair bet to assume that if Adamo XPS - which is currently still just a proof of concept - ever does come to market, it will likely be on the very pricey side. It may even be the case that if one piled up all the pound notes you would have to pay for it, they'd probably stack up thicker than the notebook itself.
