M17 ..... soon to be sold out.....

thanks guys .. i did buy that option .. i ordered the m17 the other day monday the sept 21 .. talked with a salesman at dell/alienware name of charlie .. gave me shipping for 15 dollars and the T9600 cpu upgrade for 177.00 so i went for it ..also told me the m17 will only be avaible for a few more days there running out of parts or changing to a new model

 

Your kidding me... ugh... I love my M17... but now I am wondering if I should jump the bandwagon to send it back.. still got 2 weeks... Thanks

 

Jump the bandwagon for the x

 

Rediculously overpriced in the UK, Id probably go Clevo M980nu here as it can be had a fair bit cheaper. M17 /w 4850s were a comparative bargain, with new GPUs in 2-3 months would be a waste to spend extra on the AW with thier poor CS and unknown stance on card upgrade availability.

 

Hopefully there's an updated M17 model with no stuttering/overheating problems and everything else everyone wants.

 

i dont really care i took advantage of the one year no interest alienware credit card 30 dollars a month for a few years to pay it off killer deal

 

you can fix the studder over heat easly by dumping the quad core dumping the over clock and reinstalling heatsinks with artic silver sell the quad on ebay and upgrade to a T9600 or a P9700

 

shoudl of seen this coming ,....


Flextronics makes the 850Di not the 840Di anymore

and proabaly the 15 M15x to

 

ya, having 2 17" models is bad for alienware (even if it is good for consumers)

When the M17 was new, the Area 51 m17x was still around too, until it wasn't.

 

the copper mod also if you wan to keep the quad

btw sttttttutter is jjjjjjust in your headdssssssss guys
just kidding

btw mine is 1 month old and still stuter free

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@scook9 i can't see why it's bad it will get more customer interested sins they have more options availible i would my self never had gotten a 17x sins i'm sold to ati

 

They have to keep parts available for the m17 no matter what. They can't replace every m17 that breaks under warranty for the replacement model. It is not cost effective. I wonder if they are just out of 4850s and dont plan on getting any for another month or so...

 

i i hope for them they haves both replacement and 4850s for replacements cause if anything appen to my m17 they better have it or they lose a 60k per year client .....

 

Well I just bought the new Sager NP9850, 2800 bucks. Its got a bigger screen, three HDD's and looks cooler in my opinion then the craptastic magnetic lid carrying M17x blah. The M17 I use now is awesome, but AW let me down with not giving the 4850's as upgrades to current M17 users.

 

My m17 is in sig, havent had any overheating probs.

as for switching to get an M17X if you already bought the M17, I wouldnt do it. They will take a lot of your $ back just to send it back. And for my M17, I still get higher 3dmark06 scores than some of the M17xs out there.

Its your choice tho, if you want to waste the money, go for it.

 

I wonder if this means there will be no official Windows 7 updates for this thing.

 

no need it fully works under win 7 as it is

 

It mostly works in 7, but the command center needs an update.

 

what are you guys thinking ? that alienware is stopping production of replacment parts ...i think they are just changing to a new design/ model
.......................am i the only one here with a brain....................

 

all they are doing is starting to stop selling the m17 because the m17x is the 850 di and the 840 di was the m17 so they are killing off that model to focus on the m17x ....

they will still have parts so quit freaking out we all knew it was going to die

 

nothing last forever

 

it is bad for Alienware because they create competition between their own models

Would be smarter to just offer one system with ATI or Nvidia option (hopefully coming soon for M17x)

 

the M17x gets a higher 3dmark06 score now

And the difference in vantage is huge

And the M17x will game much better

Dont get me wrong, the M17 was nice and I loved mine, but I love my M17x even more

 

i can say the same now since i have owned both

 

Well the performance edition always beats its younger sibling.

IMO the loss of the M17 means nothing. I'm sure more people were purchasing the M17x or M15x. They should get rid of both of the none x models and continue to sell performance laptops.

 

are you stalking me through the forum?! haha

 

I also had the whitebook moving on to the m17x.

 

Shame the 4850s werent more widespread, they really did offer that performance stepping stone over the 3870s (being a little faster than 260 SLI) between the M17 and M17x, was sort of like an M17 GT! That said I can understand the business sense in dropping the model. RIP M17, just hurry and sort upgrades for existing owners. AW really need to reassess prices in the UK, they are pretty poor on the M17x, in comparison to others!

 

this is why i defected to AW

im sad to see that i saw this coming

tbh Aw are dead in the UK, they are far too overpriced with crappy support