gizmodo.com - 23 days ago
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Still drooling over yesterday's Adamo XPS pics? I am. But it could have been a very different machine. Early prototypes had LCD touchpads (similar to notebooks like Fujitsu's N7010 and Sharp's Mebius ), and even a capacitive-touch keyboard. Take a look: Though running certain apps in a tiny ...
slashgear.com - 23 days ago
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Dell’s Adamo XPS is certainly a striking piece
of tech – any notebook that thin is going...
to grab our attention, and that’s before you add in a spytastic touch-strip to open it – but it turns out the company had even more ambitious plans initially. PC World managed to ...
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Dell Adamo XPS prototypes played with multitouch ...
hardwaresphere.com - 22 days ago
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hardwaresphere.com —
After the long wait, Dell has finally releasing
their Adamo XPS super thin laptop along with the...
specification. Dell Adamo XPS is absolutely the thinnest PC laptop that could slash Macbook into two. Measuring in just 9.9 thickness, weigh in just about 1.4kg, it might looks impossible to have a ...
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Official Release: Dell Adamo XPS Laptop
news.cnet.com - 23 days ago
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Dell Adamo XPS prototypes played with multitouch trackpads, touch-sensitive keyboards, more
SlashGear —
... saw it shelved.
Finally – and this one really goes to show the lust for skinniness among Dell’s engineers these days – they tried a version with the ports hidden in a pop-up section, but it added a tiny bit more thickness, so got canned. In the end, the Adamo XPS ended up reasonably gimmick-free (though only when you compare it to the prototypes) but no less tempting.
[via Gizmodo] ...
Dell Adamo XPS prototypes featured multi-touch LCD trackpad, capacitive keyboard
Tech Ticker —
... N7010.
Another prototype created by them did not use the multi-touch LCD but instead integrated a no-moving capacitive keyboard.
Of course, both these features would’ve been nice inclusions but Dell decided against them plainly because Dell thought the 4-inch multi-touch LCD is not price worthy whereas the capacitive keyboard won’t be welcomed by many due to constant fingerprint smudging and lack of a real keyboard feeling.
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