We thought the Dell Adamo XPS to be a truly beautiful creation, an innovative challenger that one-upped the MacBook Air. It had potential. Updated: Wait! The Adamo XPS lives after all?

Dell's Adamo is a beautiful, slender machine with girly guts. But now it's coaxing you to ignore the sissy insides with its distracting new $999 base price tag.

What happens when Dell's Adamo and XPS laptops get set up on a date, have a few too many drinks and end up rocking the bed? The 9.99mm-thin Dell Adamo XPS, about half as thin thick as the MacBook Air.

Dell has dropped the prices of their Adamo ultraportables, matching the low-end MacBook Air. The higher-end Adamo, however, is still more expensive than Apple's top of the line model. Apocalypse is, no doubt, very near.

This is Dell's VP of Consumer Design, Ed Boyd. It all makes sense now.

iFixit teamed up with TechRepublic to tear down the new Dell Adamo, and they were especially impressed with how many parts actually fit inside the slim laptop.

The Adamo's only just come out, but it looks like we might already know what Dell's next step is-an ultra-portable 9-inch Adamo and a 22-inch Studio One all-in-one PC.

Dell fully unveiled their Adamo laptop and it appears to fit somewhere between the Voodoo Envy 133 and MacBook Air with a 1.2 GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 128-gigabyte SSD and .65-inch thickness.

Now we've got confirmation that the Dell Adamo is actually launching later today and will be priced at $1999. PR person Brian Solis took pictures of the Air-contender at SXSW. [Engadget]