***-->The Official Dell Adamo Thread<--***

[Focusme]

Dell site has three days of discounts and Adamo is selling today (Friday) for $769.03.

[watchtower7]

$680
The Dell Online Store: Build Your System

[Focusme]

I got in at $680. The price was just too good to pass up. It makes you feel bad for people who paid significantly more.

[PICOW]

How do you get to 680? It says 807.

PICOW

[Focusme]

Price has increased to $734.26. Use code T23S653DP1RV3N .

[PICOW]

Damn, I have no one to snap this deal for me at the moment . (Europe)

BTW; Pearl is a big letdown for me. Compared to Onyx, far worse build quality, feel and key flex. Sucks.

I am keeping my older Adamo and getting rid of Pearl.

[Focusme]

I've read about keyboard flex on the Pearl but don't understand why the build quality is far worse. Also, isn't the Onyx a really bad fingerprint magnet?

[dmurray14]

I just got an Onyx. To those of you with this adamo, is your palmrest area / keyboard surround awfully coarse? Compared to the front and bottom brushed aluminum, my palmrest area is much rougher, running a fingernail along it files off my fingernails...kind of unpleasant, really. The aluminum on the outside and bottom are much smoother.

Just wondering if this is by design.

Thanks!

[rgershey]

I love my Adamo, but lurking in the back of my mind is the big question mark. What's going to happen when the inevitable day comes to replace the 'battery', i.e. the whole bottom cover?

I suppose Dell will not be long providing parts for this soon-to-be abandoned model. I also doubt that any third party vendors will be offering replacements for this 'non-user replaceable' battery.

So will we have to resort to a chisel and glue gun to fabricate our own batteries?

[Focusme]

When the battery goes I will just plug in.