After much hype and speculation Dell today officially launched its Dell Adamo 13, a luxury ultraportable with a 13.4-inch screen. What’s that, it isn’t a netbook? Given the growing trend in screen sizes among netbooks, you might be forgiven into thinking otherwise but the $1,999 price does put it far out of netbook range.

However, there are signs already that Dell is preparing the Adamo 9, and with the “13″ in Adamo 13 meaning 13-inches, you can safely bet on the Adamo 9 being a 9-inch luxury netbook.

SlashGear reports that after VIA announced its 1080p-capable Surfboard C855 reference design today, Dell might be tempted to use this in the Adamo 9. The Surfboard C855 is based on a VIA C7-M processor running at 1.6GHz coupled with a Chrome9 graphics chipset capable of 1080p, MPEG-2/4, VC-1, and WMV9 decoding.

With regular Dell netbooks — the Inspiron Mini range — using the Intel Atom processors, the Adamo using the Surfboard C855 could help differentiate and market the Adamo as something more luxury and justify what will no doubt be a hefty price tag by netbook standards.