NY Times: Adamo by Dell. What is Adamo? No one knows for sure but there is spec­u­la­tion that Adamo will be the sub-brand Dell will use for an ultra-thin note­book PC–a MacBook Air (MBA) killer. Dell’s VP of Consumer Sales and Marketing, Michael Tatelman stated, “I think we need to get some iconic prod­ucts out there, so peo­ple asso­ciate Dell’s brand with other things. Namely, that’s good­bye to clunky, and hello to sleek.”

I wel­come advance­ment. But let’s be really clear of what Adamo has to accom­plish: it doesn’t have to be thin­ner than the MBA. It must be more pow­er­ful in terms of CPU capa­bil­i­ties, have more ports than the MBA (I don’t think this will be much of a prob­lem), and be easy to upgrade the RAM and HDD. Finally, the bat­tery must be replace­able. Other things I hope the Adamo has: built-in 3G, dis­crete low-power but pow­er­ful GPU, 4GB RAM stan­dard, 64-bit OS stan­dard, 128GB SSD stan­dard, mul­ti­touch, convertible.

Update 2008.12.24 10:47AM PST: Dell’s Adamo seems like it will be sport­ing a 13.x” LCD. There is a cached Dell acces­sory site that shows a “45W AC ADAPTER FOR ADAMO THIRTEEN”. So Adamo Thirteen seems to sug­gest it’ll be a 13.x” note­book PC.