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Dell Adamo's Achilles Heel: Battery Not User Replaceable

Posted 03/24/09 at 04:00:44 PM  by Andy Salisbury

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Dell’s Adamo is one sexy notebook, featuring an impressively thin form factor that allows its users to bring it with them just about where they want. But, along with all that good news we’ve got some bad to report – the battery isn’t replaceable by the user.

Following in the footsteps left by Apple’s 17-inch MacBook Pro, the un-removable battery can only be replaced if sent to Dell. There’s no word yet on just how much this procedure will cost as of yet.

Unfortunate news, to be true, but we can’t say that it completely surprises us. You don’t get a notebook this thin without losing some of the usual advantages.

 

 

Image Credit: Dell/Maximum PC

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TAGS: apple, dell, replacement, battery, consumer electronics, macbook pro, Adamo
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avatarI hate it when marketers try

Submitted by damicatz on Wed, 03/25/2009 - 11:59am

I hate it when marketers try to make their product names sound foreign because usually, they have no clue what they are talking about.

Adamo means "I fall in love with" in Latin.  It's fairly obvious that Dell wanted to name the laptop after the Latin word which means "to admire, lust after or fall in love with".  That would be adamare.  Adamo is the inflected form of the word.

Also, no user replaceable battery makes this laptop a no buy for me or my customers (I am a Dell VAR)

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