Dell Adamo XPS has a 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo and costs $1,800

The Dell Adamo XPS has broken cover again and several US tech sites have spent some quality time with the world’s thinnest laptop.

As we’ve already seen, the Adamo XPS has a folding case design that makes it particularly unsuited for use on a lap, but its extreme thinness — just 9.9mm — and 1.45kg weight mean that it’s still highly portable.

Less impressive is the reported battery life of two and a half hours, particularly for the entry-level $1,800 price tag (around £1,200). Still, at least the battery is replaceable…

There’s little in the way of new information in these fresh reports, but Dell has also revealed some more of the Adamo XPS’ specification and we now know that it has a 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo ULV processor and 4Gb of RAM. It’s also interesting to see some different photos of the Adamo XPS and get some first-hand feedback.

Gizmodo’s Matt Buchanan had this to say:

It really is impossibly thin. I felt like I was holding a single sheet of aluminium that was contoured into the curved shape of a laptop. I set it down, gingerly, because I didn't want to break it, since I didn't know at the moment that it was $1800. My finger slid across the latch to disengage the heat-sensitive capacitive latch.

There was no visible sign my stroke was the lucky one, so I waited a second before prying the top half upward. It wasn't entirely seamless—I had to hold the bottom half down as with a single finger as I pulled the display open and the keyboard slid forward, like a notebook out of a Pierce Brosnan-era James Bond era. The metal keys were cold. Which I kind of liked, actually.

A hands-on video of the Dell Adamo XPS has popped up, too:

PC World has also seen some of the Dell Adamo XPS prototypes and the idea seems to have started out as a condensed all-in-one desktop PC. It’s also interesting to see how Dell’s engineers split the Adamo XPS motherboard in two to fit around the keyboard — there simply isn’t room inside the case for a more traditional stacked layout. Or at least there isn’t with a keyboard that has moving keys — one other idea Dell considered was a keyboard that used solid, touch-sensitive keys.

Here’s the rest of the specification:

• 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo ULV processor
• Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
• 4GB 800MHz DDR3 dual-channel memory
• Intel Ultimate-N WiFi Link 5300 (802.11a/g/n) Half Mini card
• Dell Bluetooth 2.1 adapter

[via Gizmodo & PC World]