In the struggle to bring thinner and sleeker notebooks to consumers there are usually many trade offs you’ll have to endure in order to get as thin a profile as possible…but damn does it look good.

The Dell Adamo XPS crams components into every nook and cranny in order to get to its insanely thin profile. Digital Trends has all of the juicy details:

This thing has a ton of cool tech in it, and one of the first things you’ll notice is that it doesn’t open like any other laptop; It has a capacitive memory wire latch. To open the laptop, you swipe your finger over a sensor, the memory wire heats, and the keyboard unlocks and drops out of its nest in the display. Once open, the keyboard cantilevers out from the display, both angling the keyboard and allowing the display to sit up several inches higher and provide a better screen angle for your eyes. This also helps the laptop run cool (the MacBook Air tends to gate its processor significantly because of heat buildup, which means you typically are only getting 800 MHz, regardless of the speed of processor you buy).

It’s not the speediest machine out there but as far as portability is concerned it’ll take the travel burden off your shoulder.

Dell’s ultra-thin shot against the MacBook Air’s bow is indeed stylish, and somewhat 007-ish in black. But as Gizmodo finds, the pricey package is lacking in some areas.

One of those areas is fit and finish in some spots, which is surprising considering the luxury, aluminum-clad pool Dell’s wading in. More distressing is the fact that it underperforms in the graphics department relative to some of its $2,000+ competition.

The verdict is that the Adamo it’s a .65-inch stunner (though slightly heavy at 4 lbs) but you might want to wait for a revision or two before hitting the checkout button and slipping one into your messenger bag.

Source: Gizmodo