Has anyone else noticed the price difference with the m17x?

I have just fully loaded the m17x and even with Office 2007, it came to £3798.78...

I must admit i was surprised as the USA prices were over $6k for the same spec...

I'm thinking that this confirms that they are releasing a Montevina notebook as the above price seems cheap...ish!

Question is now, is it worth buying the m17x with Santa-Rosa or wait and see what the next expensive but, new notebook with Montevina turns out like?

Thoughts anyone?

OB

 

I guess it is more base on: some compenents are less expensive, for instance the CPU and the motherboard that for sure is releated to MV.

I am almost 99.9% sure that AW is not capable to deliver a MV solution that fast UNLESS DELL is on charge of it.

 

Yeah, i agree with you about the speed, personally i think they were delayed because of all the problems that the m15x had, they seem to be releasing good m17x's in the USA so maybe they did learn...

Thing is i've waited for 8 months now, so a few more will be ok lol...

I am not waiting forever, my guess is the new product will be a 15" Monty based machine or possibly a budget range of Monty notebooks...

OB

 

As far as I know MV is far far away from AW objectives. m9750 is a good example of it they still supporting this old monster, because they have to run out of stock in order to stop offering this model.

Are you going to place your m17x order?

 

and has anyone noticed the insane price difference between alienware AU and US??? a same configured system on the au site is almost 2000 bucks more expensive!!! omg...

 

Someoe has to pay for some low prices in some other countries like the US. So far is Australia and EUROPE

 

Yeah i think so, depends on when they take the money from a credit card, i'm saving up now so...

I really want the m17x, seems to be a good model, comparable witht the 1730 in running cool etc.

Looks much better though..... much better (no offense to any owners on here (",)

OB

 

As far as I know AW takes the money right after you place your order.
You are right the m17x is cool, but is COOL = SOLID ?? . the 1730 is not very COOL but is very solid. I have not read that many unhappy reviews like the m15x

 

Well dell certainly should get on top of it and make sure aw has the latest tech. I like what they've done so far with the merger (financing) now they just need to add accidental damage protection (maybe lower pricing?) and keep up on the bleeding edge of tech

 

how thick is the m17x

 

Mt m17 Has Arrived & Review

If youlook about half way down, iElSayed has done a small review... Seems good so far...

Anyone else thinking of placing an order?

OB

 

check it out : http://www.alienware.co.uk/product_...?SysCode=PC-EU-LT-A51M17X&SubCode=SKU-DEFAULT

 

With my config the M17x is 570 euro's more expensive than on the Us site. Based on the current exchange rate.

 

All I know is that I looked at the XPS 1730 a few months ago and a great setup with SLI 8800 and T9300 etc, could have been bought for €2000 (using discounts).

The M17x with same specs will cost me €3000+

And now, just as they finally get it to the market, the competition are moving to 9-series cards, (9800M GT for example can offer same performance as 8800m GTX but at a lower cost. )

Its just ridiculous tbh.

 

imho Alienware have seriously missed the boat with these laptops, beautiful yes but if i was sensible and didnt follow the crowd on this then my money is on M570TU or M860TU the 9800 GT has been benchmarked quicker than the 8800GTX and has 1333 FSB, DDR3, proper Penryn processors, IE will work better than Penryn on Santa Rosa and will do a proper job when used with Montevina. HDMI out as standard eSATA support.....the list is endless....