Fully loaded M17x $1256 with AAFES Discount

DR, they must have fixed the problem. Mine shows up now.

 

Hmm. Time to give AAFES a call.

 

It is working now, I can see my orders now as well.

 

Yea, I got nothing on my credit card either. AAFES live chat is telling me to wait it out. Which I don't want to do in the event that I miss the deal.

EDIT: Just got off the phone with AAFES and they said it doesn't appear that I ordered anything. I guess I'm going to place another order right now. Whats the worst that happens? I get two M17x's? Lol My wife would kill me, but they said I could cancel one order if both ended up going through.

 

Hooooooly cow... I was just about to submit my reorder for the R4. I had it in my AAFES cart, was on Step 2 of 3 in the check out process. I decided to check my email again. Hit refresh, and what do you know...last nights order came in not but 2 min ago.

Estimated ship date 5/23/12. Time to empty my AAFES cart as I have no need for another one

 

Is yours delivery or ship on 5/23? My estimated delivery is 5/25, and you and I are neighbors.

I actually ordered an M17 and an M14 - wondering if the 14 might be enough power for me, but I doubt it.

 

The email I got says estimated ship 5/23, my guess is it will be much earlier. Just says in process on the AAFES site.

 

do you have any plan to try the 7970MCF on your M17X R2?

 

At some point in the future I will. When I get the R4 I will test the GPU in the M17x R2. See how it takes the Dell card. But I sold stuff to get a pair of 7970's for the R2 but the R4 was a better deal so I jumped on that. Only cost $92 more than the pair for cards themselves. But to answer your question, yes, I will be putting two 7970s in the R2, but not in the very near future.

 

Wha...? How old was your father when you were born, cause according to my math he must have been in his mid to late 60s at least. My grandfather was 20 when he was on Normandy and died in his 70s in the mid-90s.

in any case, this would be really pushing the envelope since you're no longer a "dependent" at 24.

 

Before I ask my cousin to make an account. I heard prices went up. Can anyone confirm the price for this set-up.

Alienware m17x R4 base config
Ivy Bridge
7970m upgrade
1080p upgrade
+ discount code

Thanks!

 

Yea, I just checked and it looks like the prices went up. My config (i7 3720, 500GB, 7970M, DVD, 1080P, 6GB RAM) that I got for $1211 now costs. $2,075.80.

Looks like the increased the CPU upgrade prices a lot too. To go from 3610 to 3720 was originally a $9 upgrade. Now its a $436 upgrade. I also removed Microsoft Office which saved $199 and now it only saves $149.25

So glad I ordered when I did!

 

Thanks for the reply. You're so lucky I guess deal is somewhat dead then. So bummed out right now Just when I'm about to contact my cousin, the prices went up. I was going to try and sell my current R3 I bought 3 weeks ago even for $200 loss so I can get the same thing you just ordered.. I think it's worth it for the upgrades plus its brand new.

Lesson learned. NEVER keep looking for deals after a purchase. lol

 

UPDATE: As of May 10 prices went up $200. Still a good deal, but not as good as it was on 8-9 May.

So good for everyone who didn't wait and ordered. As I suspected AAFES decided to deal with fakes by raising prices. And that's boys and girls why you don't do this. By trying to cheat the system you only screw yourself and every other military man and woman.

 

Interesting question now, since we seem to have gotten a deal where prices were incorrect, I wonder if they will honor them. I still haven't seen the status where it was submitted to Dell and my card charged. It is sitting at processing.

 

I really don't think it's that - I think their initial prices were a mistake. The crazy AAFES sale on R3's last year wasn't as good as these prices. I really think somewhere along the line someone screwed up inputting the prices.

 

Yea. I think it was a mistake too I mean c'mon, $9 to upgrade from 3610 to 3720? At least it was a mistake I capitalized on

 

You think? Then why OCONUS deal is still valid?

 

It looks like they are working on the site so I'd check back in an hour or two. Right now there is no option to remove the Microsoft office, which saved me $200. Also now the default option for warranty is basic 2 year, which is included on the price so there is no one year warranty option. Maybe they ran out of 1 year warranty

 

ah darn it!!! I haven't bought mine yet! I was going to buy it to night!!!

 

For the yesterday's deal price you can still try OCONUS link. Not sure how it will go if you enter CONUS address, but it's worth a try.

 

No that's normal. When I purchased my R3, the 2760 was a $9 upgrade. Their prices fluctuate almost on a weekly basis. I wouldn't be surprised to see prices drop like crazy in a month or 2. They'll also offer freebies like a tactx mouse or headset or orion backpack every once in a while.

 

so what to do buy 1 now or buy 4 or what?

i noticed the oconus thing to but i am questioning if i should just buy 4 lol

 

It actually costs more to buy occonus. I bought it at 1580 and then canceled it and went conus and got the same m17x build for 1256. Now aafes is being retarded and hasn't removed the order from my account.

 

Sorry I'm a newb, but what's occonus and conus? I want to jump on the deal but the prices are up so I don't wanna bother my cousin unless I'm going to buy for sure.

 

weird i got $1,619.95 for:
3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3720QM (6MB Cache, up to 3.6GHz w/ Turbo Boost 2.0)
6GB DDR3 at 1600MHz (2DIMMS)
English Keyboard
17.3-inch WideFHD 1920 x 1080 60Hz WLED
2GB GDDR5 AMD Radeon™ HD 7970M
500GB 7,200 RPM SATA 3Gb/s
Quasar Blue
Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit
Stealth Black with Soft Touch Finish
Acrobat SW: Adobe Acrobat X Reader
Slot-Loading Dual Layer Blu-ray Reader (BR-ROM, DVD+-RW, CD-RW)
Creative Sound Blaster Recon3Di with THX TruStudio Pro Software
Intel® Centrino® Wireless-N 2230 With Bluetooth 4.0
Adapter: Alienware M17x 240W A/C Adapter
90WHr 9-Cell Primary Battery
3 Year Basic Plan

sitting in my cart....tempted to buy 3 more with 1 year warranty lol...i am sure i got a few friends that would want them

outside continently US if i remember but i guess you can still have it mailed inside the US?

 

Hope, sucks you missed the initial deal. I got the same config ordered yesterday. But looks like you at least got a decent deal on it.

At least you didn't have to pay the +$2K that it was costing a few hours ago.

 

...thats the exact same price as yesterday when i was looking....it has the 3 year warranty which adds 300. and no MS also has blue ray. Its the exact same...

except its in the oconus section...can i buy it and ship it to IL?

throw 5 in my cart to be safe....can always delete them

 

grr so the deal is over?

I just got permission from a step parent to use their info and purchase.... Searching and searching and couldn't find the deal which was being discussed

thanks for any help

 

I feel the same

 

Ahh you added blu-ray and 3 year warranty. I didn't. I removed office. Mine came out to $1,211. Not sure if you can ship it, but it may be worth a shot. Not sure how it would work out though.


Cereallll, it looks like the deal is over.

 

go to computers click on deal mothers day deal and when it pops up click on oconus and order it and go through all the steps it is the exact same price as yesterday and it'll send to your cart!!! Hurry before they change it! I don't know if it'll ship but you can add your address as if it was conus

 

So really, after all the discussion of abusing the deal that is for military and family only, you blatantly keep talking about how you're going to buy 4 or 5?

 

According to Slick deals a few people have gotten emails saying thier AAFES order was canceled. Fingers crossed but it's not looking good. Lets hope they are canceling orders of people that don't have actually AAFES access.

 

hahaha no no I throw in 5 with different configs just in case deal goes south. I am hoping that since they are in my cart they will stick even if they later change the deal. Also i am planning on getting one for a friend since he would like one....my other friend is like me broke but wants one just can't justify it.


as i told who ever i was talking to in a pm after telling me about the rules on the ummm site i decided not to....too bad though....would be nice ^^

EDIT: wifey said i can still get it though

 

Lol, wives...Luckily, mine i out of the country for 2 weeks, so I can get away with ordering one

 

what's important is how she said it..

 

I guess it may be true. From Slickdeals:

I really hope that's the case, it was just getting way out of hand, seeing how some that have no ties to military whatsoever where ordering 3-4 laptops using someone else's AAFES account. It just amazes me that there are so many stupid military men (or women) that are willing to compromise themselves for something like this. It is just sad.
If what was said in quoted message is true, than, hopefully, something good will come out of it.

 

Man I just moved. Hope my address in deers is right. Though I just got a new CAC so it should be.

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Mine seems to be still in the system, and my laptops should be shipped to my old address before I PCS'd two years ago. I still have dependents living there, so it should be in DEERS (I think).

 

Now this is funny. I had it shipped to my daughter, which always had a ship to address in the Exchange system since I regularly buy stuff and have it shipped to her. Lets see if they cancel mine, I'll be pretty pissed.

 

Anybody know if Dell do a UK military discount? Thanks.

 

Don't really know, but I think not. It's an American company, so there isn't any reason to give discounts to foreign military.

 

Well, my order has been charged and sent to supplier.

 

WHAT??? I want to join military

 

yeah man its that rare time of the year when the perks being in the military is just ridiculous

And congrats to those who were able to take advantage of it

 

lol first time i have ever heard this in the 5 years i have been in/out lol so stoked

 

Hope, the reason mine was $256 was that I did not put the blu-ray in, I have a 750gb hdd, and I only have the 1 year warranty.

 

I just double checked my information in DEERS and my information in DEERS matches my ship to and billing address. So if Dell/AAFES is indeed canceling orders based on that cross check, then I'm in the clear as all my info will match Here's to hoping it works out. I just got an email saying it was. Can't beat the deal I got.

 

Is AAFES only available for US army or Canadian army is included?