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In the laptop market, Dell and Apple are the two aggressive competitors for ultra thin laptops. Though Dell still has higher market share than Apple in the total PC market, when it comes to the design and interface, Apple is always the winner by far amount. But Dell’s new ultra thin laptop named Dell Adamo XPS may change the game.

Though Adamo XPS had been in the rumor chamber of blogosphere for a couple of months, Dell has finally revealed the product, but with out a price tag!!

Here is the feature of the Dell Adamo from its official site :

STYLE
Thinnest laptop in the world at 9.99mm¹
13.4-inch widescreen LED HD display
Elegantly matched external peripherals

PERFORMANCE
1.4GHz Intel® Core™ 2 Duo ULV processor – delivering ultra-low-voltage mobile performance
Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit
4GB 800MHz DDR3 dual-channel memory²
Intel ® Ultimate-N WiFi Link 5300(802.11a/g/n) Half Mini card and Dell ™ Bluetooth® 2.1 adapter
Up to 5 hours and 17 minutes with an optional extended battery life on a full charge³

The design of Dell Adamo looks very impressive with great thought given to human ergonomics. Here are some of the images :

You can clearly see the design aspect of the laptop. The rising of the keyboard has two great purpose, one is for the hand positioning and the other is for the heat flow.

Now lets look at Mac Book Air:

Size and weight
Height:
0.16-0.76 inch (0.4-1.94 cm)
Width:
12.8 inches (32.5 cm)
Depth:
8.94 inches (22.7 cm)
Weight:
3.0 pounds (1.36 kg)1

Processor and memory
1.86GHz or 2.13GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 6MB on-chip shared L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed
1066MHz frontside bus
2GB of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM onboard

So who do you think will win the race? Personally, though both of them have equal strength over the design and ergonomic. What matters eventually is the inside of the laptop and that is its operating system. And I am sure that Dell Adamo will be running Windows 7 and not Mac’s Leopard.

I remember watching one of the video of Steve Job’s interview and what he told was quite interesting. He told that, ” Most of people don’t get it. Its not the hardware, but the software interface that matters.” And I would agree with that, I mean, no matter how great your hardware is, if it runs a software which is hard to work out with, it makes no sense. I am not trying to be bias here, but thats the truth of it. On the other hand, Dell’s Adamo XPS looks a great laptop, though won’t be affording it, it will be great to see how it works in Market. Ultimately innovation matters.