It begins: The Dell Adamo spotted at SXSW, coming tomorrow, $1,999

From the photos, which is all we have at the moment, it just looks like a thin laptop with a glossy screen and ports at the back.

I guess tomorrow we'll find out if there's any reason to be excited about it besides marginally better aesthetics.

Glossy screen - instant disqualification.

It's really sad how the proverbial "average consumer" who runs into a consumer electronics store, gravitating to the glossy displays "oooohhhh shiny" ruins it for the power users who then get stuck with this crap too (or have to pay a premium to get an "inferior" display).

I saw the Adamo's unofficial (gizmodo I think) preview video a few weeks ago, and the screen was so glossy that you could clearly see the guy holding the camera in its reflection.

I have a macbook, and I'm frequently distracted by significant reflections if there is any light source behind me.

Specs listed at http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/dell-adamo-announced-1-2g...

A fair bit slower than the MacBook Air, quite a bit heavier, integrated graphics, and $200 more, but with an SSD...

That's a very good-looking computer. I'm curious to see how it feels. Dell traditionally pays not attention to things like key responsiveness and tension between the different parts of the computer. That's the design I'd like to see them learning.

So, out of the box, will I be able to click on terminal, run ps, emacs, apache, mysql, etc?