GTX 880m, 860m now available on US Alienware site...

As the title says, its up and ready for ordering. Looks like they took away the 3D 120hz screen though. Real bummer.

 

Nice, 3D screens and GTX 880m are available on UK site for AW 17.

 

Yup, I saw that, although they still have a bug in the builder where it says you need a different PSU and will not confirm the build

 

From Alienware's Facebook page: "The 3D screen option will be made avaliable with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 700 Series GPUs in a few days. We are still working through compatibility issues before we can make it avaliable with the 800 series GPUs. - jra"

I returned my original machine but def gonna hold off until they put up the 3D screen before I re-order with the 880m

 

There is a work around that bug: when you choose GTX 880m, message about the psu comes up. At the same screen there is an option marked for 240w psu, which is already marked. If you mark it again, the error message disappears and you can continue with the order.

 

still not showing on alienware canada but there's no point in returning the aw 17 i ordered anyways...just gonna take it and enjoy working with it (and the occassional game).

 

Haha, yes you're right . Shame about the limited disk options but hey the price is OK IMO

 

Would you have to return the whole unit or do you think an on site swap could be done?

 

I would think you would need to return the whole unit. Since most people get some kind of offer/sale price for specific system, the same discount might not apply for the GTX 880m.

Dell UK website does not make much sense when upgrading AW 17: you can choose GTX 880, but you are limited to the lowest performance CPU from the bunch. If you want to upgrade the CPU, your GPU has to be R9 m290x. :/

 

alienware canada have updated their aw 17 models to show the 880m....oh well