Another claim for the world’s thinnest laptop

Dell laptops have finally launched its wafer-slim Dell Adamo XPS in time for the Christmas market, to give arch-rival Apple’s MacBook Air a run for its money. And the launch follows in the wake of super-thin machines such as the Sony Vaio X range.  

Billed as the world’s thinnest laptop, the Dell Adamo XPS is just 9.9mm thick, and weighs in at less than 1.5kg. And this latest product shaves nearly 5mm off the size of last year’s Adamo. It also features a slight stand at the back of the machine which slants the keyboard at an angle towards the user and rests on top of the battery – good to prevent overheating but not totally conducive to being placed comfortably on your lap.

Some of the other grumbles already being heard about this product centre on the life of the battery – at around two and a half hours it won’t keep you working for long without mains power. Some have described the Adamo XPS is a triumph of style over substance.

Don’t expect it to fall in the cheap laptops category, with an RRP of £1,099.

Dell laptops to feature UK Arm chips

Dell have unveiled plans for a high-end line of laptops that include microprocessors designed by the UK’s Arm Holdings.

The Dell laptops will run Microsoft’s new Windows 7 operating system on an Intel chip most of the time.

But the Arm chip and a version of the free operating system Linux will be used for instant access to some functions as soon as the laptop is turned on.

Dell’s inclusion of Arm and Linux follows longstanding user frustration with the slow Windows boot-up process.

Dell are said to be targeting sales executives, creative professionals and small businesses. While they are not Dell’s core customers, they are the company’s focus as they try to compete with Apple and HP laptops.

Dell wireless charging is on its way

Dell’s svelte Latitude Z laptop will be their first to experience the wonder of wireless charging.

At £1,000 RRP, the Latitude Z is already in the upper price echelons but for another £100 outlay, you can grab yourself  a laptop stand that charges the Latitude Z laptop wirelessly — just like the Palm Pre’s TouchStone dock. There’s also an optional wireless HDMI adapter for use with a compatible monitor to cut down the cables still further.

The Dell Latitude Z is already a pretty impressive piece of technology without the stand. It uses an Intel CULV Core 2 Duo processor — either the 1.4GHz SU9400 or 1.6GHz SU9600 — and comes either 2Gb or 4Gb of RAM. That 16in screen has a 1600 x 900 resolution and it’s backed by the Intel GMA4500MHD graphic chipset.

The Latitude Z will be joining all the other Dell laptops on Dell’s UK site shortly.

Dell unveil skinny Adamo laptop with under 1cm thickness

The growing penchant for skinny laptops shows no sign of slowing, with Dell announcing a new 9.99mm thin Adamo XPS (Xtreme Performance System) laptop this week.

Further information is scarce, other than the machines bulkiness or lack of it, as Dell choose to take the teaser PR campaign route like they did with the first Adamo notebook.

However, in comparison with the 19.3mm thick MacBook Air and Dell’s original Adamo, which weighed in at 16.5 mm thick, the new sub-10mm laptop has certainly whetted our appetite. As ever on Laptopshop, we’ll have Adamo laptop deals as soon as they go on sale.