Hidevolution were fitting the blue Ray drive themselves! I suspect good old Ted was keeping the other drives to resell. He quote me $200 for the blue ray as an extra.![]()
is this new quicksilver drive better than the ones that they apparantly run out of stock? I'd be very unhappy if they downgraded without letting us know first.
On an entirely seperate note I ordered an M17x (r1 - quadcore) on the 04th Jan and just got an email today from UPS to say it will be here (London) new Thursday. My original eta was 25th Jan so it looks like they are 2 weeks behindplus I cancelled this order 2 weeks ago! Dell really are useless
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Ah that sukcs. I think Dell should open a few more factories so they can cope with high demands when new laptops/desktops are released. -
I wouldn't be happy with some dealer opening up my new system and installing the dvd drive. Especially with the M17x since you basically have to rip apart nearly the entire machine to reach the dvd drive. Yeah it will be sealed alright, he'll package it back up and use his own packaging tape LOL! This may be why they refuse to give you an order number or even invoice. It probably doesn't list the blu ray drive on there. Sounds shady to me, I wouldn't deal with them.
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And yeh you may be right. Thats why they've been trying to make me believe that my order number is internal information that is dangerous for customers to know. -
well dell sent me a blu-ray drive to have it installed
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I'm going to laugh if the 5870 becomes available before we receive our systems. I'll still keep mine as long as it reaches boxing before then.
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I'm tired of RMA'ing and/or selling off new systems. I think the only person who can pull it off so consistently is sleey0. If mine gets here by the ETA, I'm keeping it, 5870 or not. I'll upgrade the GPU when fermi hits or if there is a faster part than 5870 released. -
I don't even have a laptop at the moment! i'm using my wii and Google g1!
The 4870's will be able to max out any game for the next 5ish months. (my estimate) -
Is it a big pain to get the cards upgraded if they are released in a few weeks?
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I think I will feel more presure to upgrade once we get the good directx 11 games, Crysis 2 etc. I am sure they will feature directx 11.
Check this small article http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/17327/1/
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One thing is fer sure tho... I am going wherever the better FPS and the better eye candy is, either fermi or ATI, no loyalties here
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i want to order one with the 4870's but i feel like i should wait, i don't know what to dooooooooo. and the 4870's should be good for more than 5 months i hope.
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There's always going to be the better card around the corner. That's the beauty of technology.
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seriously
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Rengsey R. H. Jr. I Never Slept
You can get a Blu-Ray Drive average for $100.00 on ebay, and put it in yourself. I know you don't want to take apart your system, but you have to anyway because you want to put the best thermal compound on your CPU and GPU. No more excuse for not opening your laptop.
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By the time the members read this post , everyone is going to order one. lol... save one for me... * NOT !!!! * -
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Called in to check status. Say's im in the build stage and expected ship date is 1/29. Ordered 1/14, EDD 2/4.
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I called the 800 number today and the csr checked my order status. She put me on hold then came back and said my estimated ship date was moved from 2/17 up to 2/12. Then she told she upgraded my shipping to next buisness day at no cost. wierd. So I listed my order below. My dvd player is not the one listed as quicksilver or whatever . So I am wondering how this will play out.
Item Number Quantity Item Description
224-8107
1 Space Black - Anodized Aluminum
317-3655
1 Intel® Core i5 540M 2.53GHz (3.06GHz Turbo Mode, 3MB Cache)
317-3660
1 4GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1066MHz
330-7840
1 150 Watt Adapter
320-8856
1 17-inch WideUXGA 1920 x 1200 RGB LED (1200p)
320-8857
1 1GB ATI Radeon Mobility HD 4870
342-0667
1 320GB 7,200RPM SATA-II HDD
330-3924
330-6106
1 Personalized Nameplate (MERRITT)
313-8792
421-2261
1 Quasar Blue
420-6436
420-9691
421-1400
1 Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English
421-1586
1 Alienhead Chrome Red
421-1591
1 Alienhead 3D
410-1883
1 Adobe Acrobat Reader
313-8977
1 Slot-Load Dual Layer DVD Burner (DVD+-RW, CD-RW)
313-8944
1 Internal High-Definition 5.1 Surround Sound Audio
430-3688
1 Wireless 1520 802.11n Half Mini-Card
330-6348
1 Automatic Updates: On
421-1721
908-2207
922-3410
950-3337
950-9797
994-3730
1 1 Year Basic Serivce Plan
421-1360
1 Steam and Portal Factory Installed
430-0628
1 Internal Wireless Bluetooth® 2.1 with EDR
330-5090
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You get a 150W adapter if the system doesn't have a core i7 + dual graphics cards I believe.
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Ahh, I see. Kind of dumb because you'll need to buy a new adapter if you install a new cpu or gpu down the line.
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Thats pretty lame.. Another cash grab for Dell like the 2nd hard drive caddy.
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Yes... Very lame, indeed.
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Just checked order status and it has advanced from build stage to boxing
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If it hits boxing it's too late to change the shipping, at least that's been my experience. I'm surprised Mandrake and others haven't reached boxing yet. When did you place your order? My EDD is 2/16 yet yours has already hit boxing..hmm. Anyway congrats and be sure to throw us a bone with some pics + divx. -
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If you are already now just in Boxing, it should not take no more than 5 days to go into shipping. Are you here in the U.S. ? -
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Mine was in boxing 2 days ago (order date 1/16) and had a purolator shipping number for me, today when I checked its in production and the delivery date is now 2/22.
My purolator tracking number gives me a "billing information has been received" message. Im more then confused.
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my ETA is 2/16. specs in my signature
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its shipped then just wait until the shipping information is updated
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Just to make sure it wasn't a glitch I just called the 1-800 number and still still says boxing stage with a ship date of February 12. I find it odd for a system to be in boxing for 16 days if estimated shipping date is right...
Its the Alienware twilight zone man -
People fail to understand that your ESD won't change until Dell actually prints the Fedex label and ships it.
The system doesn't see the difference between boxing and an ESD.
As soon as your boxing stage is completed, which entails Dell recieving the system and shipping it, then your ESD will update.
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in boxing it take any amount of time. They have to fill a shipment.
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Been ordering from Dell since I got my new XPS M170 several years ago, (still have it) and a few other systems as well, I also ordered from Alienware before they were Dell...
Just find the whole order status lacking a certain something, accuracy?, anyways, is no big deal really, my dazzling M17XR2 will get here eventually
Thanks for explaining though
On another quick note, I placed my order only on Jan 22nd so I reached this boxing stage fairly quick, I was thinking that maybe has to do with the fact that I left my personalized name plate standard? Did any of you had the plate customized? I wonder if that would take a few extra days.... just a tought -
i placed mien that day as well .... hummm
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Moo, Rengsey, did you had your name plates personalized??
List everyone M17x-R2 ETA
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