Comment Why bother with either the Air or the Adamo (Score 1) 337
There is a reason they are using DDR3 SODIMMS over DDR2 SODIMMs, DDR3 uses less power consumption which means less heat, greater battery life and longer life of the part. Hot IC's are more likely to fail sooner then cooler parts, look at high performance RAM and "normal" RAM. You'll see that most of the time the IC's on the performance RAM modules are overclocked and require better cooling to get the same life from them as the none overclocked without cooling solutions on them.
-->Amount of RAM
Yeah sure 2Gb of RAM is plenty for most out there but with the price of RAM dropping each time a new manufacturing process comes out to make the IC's small price drops, and does having more RAM and being able to increase the RAM after purchase a bad thing? Not at all, its a good thing in fact
-->The IGP cores
Intel is lacking here but how many have the money here for a thin Blu-Ray disk player to watch there HD movies or even play a half decent game on there MacBook Airs? If you do game on your MacBook Air or ultra portables your using the wrong platform. Ultra portables are meant to last as long as possible in the smallest foot print possible.
-->Processors
Dell could do better here yes but again it comes to heat output and battery life under RL usage and lower speed the CPU the less heat and longer your battery is going to last. Want to do CS3 or CS4 get a larger 15" inch if you want to do that work.
-->HDD Drive Options. Well duh the Dell will cost more the MacBook Air?! It has a 128GB SSD as standard while the Air uses a standard rotating media based HDD unless your get the better unit.
-->Thickness
Thinner your notebook the less options you are going to have for a good cooling solution, or if you can make a good cooling solution for the size its going to be expensive. And even then surface area counts, more surface are the more area for heat to be radiated from the cooling solution. Who cares if it can fit in a envelop? I want to know how cool it will be under a moderate amount of usage. And don't tell me the frame is a huge heat sink because its aluminum, because do you want a hot piece of monolithic aluminum sending that heat into your thighs? I don't
-->Reliability
Well since we know Apple does not make there own parts anymore and outsource all there motherboards from one of thee manufactures reliability is about the same when it comes to how well made those motherboards are. Dell probably buys from the very same supplier as Apple does, only difference is the layout of the motherboard to fit the case they want it in. So t would be safe to say Apples die as often as a Dell, Asus, MSI and HP.
And now for my thought of the Dell fashion notebook, I don't really care and I think Dell does not really care either as they cater to business for the most part that don't care if its pretty. Its a nitch market for them and nothing more since there are more profitable markets where they are firmly entrenched. This Adamo is like a little pet project they did on the side.
