When Voodoo PC came under HP's umbrella a few years back, we began to see all sorts of interesting collaborations: The Blackbird desktop and the HP Voodoo Envy 133, with its sleek laptop looks, garnered second glances from lustful nerds.

Hoping to generate some buzz around its Adamo laptops, Dell showed off an ultra-thin design on Wednesday that could heat up the race between PC makers trying to build the world's thinnest laptop.

Rumors about a rival to Apple's MacBook Air first emerged a few weeks ago in the form of Dell's much anticipated Adamo. Yet although other big name companies like Toshiba, Samsung, HP and MSI have created their own slim laptops, there seems to be extra hype surrounding Dell's Adamo. The question is, will the Adamo, or even MSI's X-Slim Series X320, win this round as the thin laptop favorite?