But as consumers cut back on spending during the recession, will anyone pay a premium for the laptop?

Adamo could do fairly well with affluent buyers who continue to spend on hardware and technology products, but it has to be positioned and marketed correctly, Baker said.

"People will spend [on Adamo]. This is not intended to be a high-volume, high-velocity item but more of a statement [product]," he said.

Prices for the laptop start at $1,999 with a 128GB SSD and an Intel Core 2 Duo SU9300 ultra-low-voltage processor running at 1.2GHz with 2GB of DDR3 memory. The high-end version of Adamo is priced $2,699, with an Intel Core 2 Duo SU9400 ultra-low voltage processor running at 1.4GHz with 4GB of DDR3 memory.

The laptops include 128GB SSDs for data storage and run on 64-bit Windows Vista OS. Networking options include an Ethernet port and wireless 802.11n networking. Dell does not include an optical drive in the Adamo, but is offering external DVD-RW, Blu-ray drives and external hard drives with storage capacities of 250GB and 500GB.