M17x Refresh Discussion

Yes.....................

 

hi guys, see the refresh is up and people asking about 5870 cards, well when i clicked to chat to ask about a few things i asked about them and if i bought the 4870 cards would i be able to upgrade at a later date and he said yes and said you can buy from them and they will fit in ok...i pushed him on it and he said def yes to all ,how much these guys know im not sure but thas what he told me...before i oderi will ask again and make a copy of the convo XD

 

yes get it in writing lol

 

lol yeah i will but he was right for the refresh for i7 he said 2nd week in jan and here it is

 

Oh jesus, how depressing. I just spec'd up the refresh with the best settings I'd choose to get, and it came back as costing less than what I paid for my current broken bad latency M17x. I paid the equivilent of $5,273 for it.


Blah, what are the odds Dellalienware will be sued over selling faulty goods and forced to send a free refresh to people with 'old' M17x's? lol


And erm, is the reason the Nvidia cards aren't an option on the site because they've decided this is a big problem area for latency issues or is the 280m considered old already?

 

Probably more to do with the system board change.

 

Why I was so quick to get on the phone and get a refund on mine

 

280M is EOL and is probably the main reason it's not available. The 285M will be taking it's place.

 

Finally RGB LED

 

I'm not surprised at all. ;þ

Even the ASUS and MSI notebooks announced that will be using the Mob. 5 770 aren't looking to start shipping until February....and I wouldn't be surprised if most of the orders don't get filled until March or April.

Both of those companies also manufacture their own ATI cards.


You'll likely see the new GPUs sometime at or after CeBit in March just like with Clevo.

 

the refresh shows up when i just go to the alienware website but when i go through the site to get my college student discount, it don't show up. This really blows and i hope it gets added. anyone else notice this?

 

some have called and recieved thier discounts that way

 

You can call EPP and have them push your order, it looks like it might another day or 2 before the website updates.

 

Definitely waiting on the 5870. Might as well future proof with DX11.

Turbine is bringing out a DX11 client for Lord of the Rings Online in Q1 this year, and I'm a big LoTRO fan. It's already a gorgeous game, soon it'll be crazy!

 

If you want to future proof buy a desktop cause there ain't no such thing with notebooks....especially gaming notebooks.

 

You can buy the 5870 when its released and install it in yourself, that's what I'm doing

 

Anybody know if the 5870 will run in CrossfireX?

 

Well, semantics probably, but over a two year period technology changes that much anyway you'd be wanting to upgrade either device. You end up changing everything in your PC (new mobo and ram for that new CPU) or buying a new laptop. The only difference between the two is the cost of the upgrade.

Perhaps what I should have said was, why by something to use for the next 12-24 months with a DX10 GPU when DX11 is here now.

 

Hmm, well in my experience (quotes from Dell) the cost of buying a notebook GPU has been a third of the cost of the entire laptop. That's a huge extra price to pay for not just waiting a couple extra months.

 

You can sell the old gpu to offset the cost and never buy it from dell.

 

The cards can be bought from Dell usually for about $1000. That's usually how much they sell them for. You can easily sell your 4870's for close to $500 each which means it's going to cost out of pocket money barely $300 at most.

 

I'd like to see a benchmark for that game.

 

Yep, me too, but it isn't due for release until around Q3 2010. You can see alpha gameplay demos of it at gamescom though.

 

Maybe they'll release a benchmark program for it before the release.

 

I'm kinda partial to keeping my warranty intact.

 

do you have to buy from dell though?

 

I'm sure you could pick them up on ebay or something... a friendly reseller perhaps.

 

Question. why is the red an extra $100? Is the aluminum finish/texture any different from the silver? has anyone actually seen both?

 

Dell/AW deem it a "Special Edition" red colour or something, i really dont think there is much difference from it being red i think.

 

It just looks cooler

 

Australian m17x version Launch on 25th january, confirmed with 3 dell reps

btw red is free in aus lol

 

It was free on US site earlier. Not any more though.

 

lets hope they give us ATi cards to us aussies..not nivida rubbish!

 

I'm from the UK

 

hey mate are you sure? i am in the process of ordering my Mx17 that guy told me the new ones won't be out until late Feb

 

i didnt think the US dell delivers outside US ???
if that was the case i would be buying from US right now, but warranty purposes and all is just a total waste of time

 

if u can buy from the US i would do that too, the exhcnage rate right now is up to 90 US per 1 Dollar, which means you would be saving a fair amount seening its so much cheaper over there, how long it takes to ship out and how much the shipping cost would be another worry and also the warranty, but i am 100% share the warranty can be used even if you are overseas

 

nope, even with 3 of them telling me that over the phone im still not 100% sure

 

I've bought mine from Dell UK

 

yes, but do you have to send it to dell and they go through it THEN you get your laptop back???
in aus dell/AW send out the new laptop, then you send your old one back

 

man thats hte problem cause i dont want to spent all that cash, i think 3640 was the quote i been given on a duo core when i could buy a i7 for about the same price, but if its at the end of feb it will be too long.
Uni starts for me at march and i am moving on campus so i need a laptop asap

does anyone know if they will have the ATI cards for australia instead of Nivida ?

 

Yeah but you pay more for it being free. And if thats true thats ownage. Lol.

 

pretty much every tech in australia is more expensive then US, they better give us that free red color

 

when i told the rep i was speaking too that i think its released 25th of Jan, he sounded very suprised....im thinking feb.

the price of the USA and AUS machines works out to be very similar once you
add GST on it when you import....
the big difference is: us aussies will get nvidia shoved down our throuts

 

ahaha so true, for what i payed for my q9000 dual 260m's here i could of got it maxed out from US

 

my rep's name was patrick sam, the worst rep ever, i was actually going to buy a aurora ALX off him, had all the money ready to go. Told him to sent me a quote with all the part i wanted.
that was 3 days ago, no qoute, but in that 3 day time i realised, hey my duel 8800 ultras don't need upgrading, might as well buy a laptop instead cause i don't have one.

Call up dell, LOLS gets the same guy, Patrick.
ordered my Mx17, told him to send me a quote so i can pay. That was 4 hours ago. THANK GOD there is a delay cause i found out I7 was going to be out. I called patricks back, told him to never mind that quote i am going to wait. for I7, and he tells me it wont be available until feb and he doesn't know if its mid or late cause there is no news

 

Cool, could you pm me the name of the company? I was leaning towards the asus but with no express card I'm back to alienware.

Cheers,
Mick

 

Well either way. 25th of Jan or 25th of Feb i'll just wait.

Apparently the new motherboard doesnt support SLI, so they will HAVE to give us ATI, if they dont i will be rather mad.

 

they could just give you one nvidia card