Dell pipelines Adamo netbook?
Support app points to 9in version
A smaller version of Dell’s swish Adamo designer laptop could be in the works, according to one of the firm’s own support documents.
Is a 9in Adamo is the works at Dell's HQ?
Image courtesy Engadget
Adamo was officially launched yesterday as a 13.4in laptop, but a screen grab of what’s said to be a Dell support utility for the PC giant's Wireless 5530 card has since emerged that mentions an “Adamo 9”.
You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to work out that if “Adamo 9” is mentioned beside “Adamo 13”, then there’s a pretty good chance that a 9in Adamo laptop is in the works.
Adamo: 13in now, 9in soon?
It’s also worth noting that the image refers to a “Studio One 22”, which has led many folk to believe that Dell’s also preparing a 22in model for its all-in-one PC range. The PC assembler launched a 19in Studio One only last week.
We’ll bring you more news as we have it. ®
COMMENTS
Re: Doomed
"Adobe Photoshop CS4 is 64 bit native and Sony Vegas Pro 8.1 is 64 bit so I would expect the consumer versions to follow."
No - they'll assume people who can afford / choose to run 64 bit have more money or are "professional" and will not bother with the consumer versions in order to differentiate (i.e. charge more for 64 bit system performance).
Dell are acting prematurely here; perhaps under M$ pressure.
What, no 22" laptop?
"It’s also worth noting that the image refers to a 'Studio One 22', which has led many folk to believe that Dell’s also preparing a 22in model for its all-in-one PC range."
Oh, no, you don't think it's just a 22" laptop? That'd be SO convenient hahaha
As for Vista, they really should just make an Ubuntu option for this machine. It seems like Microsoft never did get the 64-bit OSes sorted. With every 64-bit Linux distro I've seen.. drivers are completely in parity (anything that works with 32-bit Linux will work with 64-bit). Since most apps are compiled (by the distro maker, or by yourself if you're using gentoo or something) there's no 64-bit compatibility worries. And if you've got a 32-bit binary-only app, every distro I've seen has a 32-bit compatibility package, install 1 package and your 32-bit apps are all happy. Probably if Dell shipped it they could just pre-install that compatibility package. I've used a few 64-bit linux boxes (AMD, Intel, SPARC, PA-RISC, PowerPC, and Alpha). Only the AMD and Intel had real flash and a decent speed with qemu, other than that I really would be hard pressed to tell which was which if the machine was hidden under a desk and I was just using the keyboard, mouse, and monitor (with out cheating and running "cat /proc/cpuinfo" or whatever).
Very pretty machine
It is ridiculous expensive though. Dell is not competing here with Apple, Dell is competing with Sony Viao.
Re: Doomed
Adobe Photoshop CS4 is 64 bit native and Sony Vegas Pro 8.1 is 64 bit so I would expect the consumer versions to follow.
A few (minor) parts of Office 2007 are 64 bit (One note filter for example).
@AC and 64-bit
Well hey, vendors better wake up, 64-bit is where we're going. So less excuses, and more re-writes of shoddy code into credible 64-bit apps please. Oh wait, hang on, they'll just "bodge" to 64-bit too... grrr...
