*OFFICIAL* "All Powerful" M17x-R2 Edition Owners Lounge!

Seeing as most of the guys with the problematic DVD SKU were canceled i will go ahead and make a new order .
If the old one will come through i'll just cancel the new one.
Damn, i want my new toy!

 

just saw mine canceled....they better make this up bastages

 

I had mine shipped today !

This is the player info I have:

8X DVD+/-RW 429-14956

Now how long will it take UPS to get to me! It said 02/16 before, now it doesn't show anything. Can't wait to open up the lid and grin!

 

If mine gets canceled I am going to raise hell to hold onto this m15x till my m17x gets delivered

 

Any one that's shipped is overseas so far

 

just check mine still in production this is the specs

 

I recall someone from the UK saying his had gone into shipping a few days back and after that he never came back.

 

He did come back but he said it was going to take 4 or 5 days to get it.

 

We pay a premium for them to hold yours back a few days

Don't worry, I bet you'll have them before me. Once it reaches France, the delivery trains/trucks/cars start working French hours, meaning the drivers work until noon, then they all take the day off after having too much pastis for lunch...

 

Sounds the same when I visited Italy. Need to get a job over there.

 

guys, how do i cancel my order? i made a new one, and now i want to make sure they cancel the first one. what do i tell the rep ?

 

Tell them what you just posted.

 

from dell's website :
"If your order is listed as “In production” or “Shipped” it’s no longer
possible to cancel it. However, after you receive delivery of your
order, you still have the option to return it to Dell within 21 days of
the invoice date. Unless the product is defective or the return is a
direct result of a Dell error, a restocking fee may apply of up to 15%
of the purchase price paid, plus any applicable sales tax. "

 

My order that was canceled was automatically reordered. I called Dell EPP and told them to cancel it and that I will just keep my second order. They said OK and that was pretty much the whole conversation.

 

i'll let you know how it went in a couple of minutes.

 

Agreed.

EU citizens have so many holidays it isn't funny. Not sure how they get anything done over there as everything is a "festival" and a reason to get drunk

 

ok, cancelled, and reordered
used the epp discount and upgraded the cpu to 17 820QM and the memory to 8 Gigs

Interestingly, my EDD for the new order is 5/2


1 224-8107 Space Black - Anodized Aluminum
1 317-3658 Intel Core i7 820QM 1.73GHz (3.06GHz Turbo Mode, 8MB Cache)
1 317-3665 8GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1333MHz
1 330-7841 Alienware M17x 240W A/C Adapter
1 320-8856 17-inch WideUXGA 1920 x 1200 RGB LED (1200p)
1 320-8858 Dual 1GB ATI Radeon Mobility HD 4870 in CrossfireX
1 342-0668 500GB 7,200RPM SATA-II HDD
1 330-3924 Name Plate Engraving
1 330-6106 Personalized Nameplate Trigger
1 313-8797 AlienFX Color, Terra Green
1 421-2261 Alienware Command Center, M17x
1 421-1400 Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English
1 420-9691 DataSafe Local BackUp 2.0 Basic
1 420-6436 PC-Restore, Dim/Insp
1 421-1573 Alienhead 3D
1 421-1591 Alienhead 3D
1 410-1883 ADOBE READER 9.0 MULTI- LANGUAGE
1 313-8977 8X DVD+/-RW Dual Layer Drive,QuickSilver
1 313-8944 5.1 Channel Audio
1 430-3739 Intel Ultimate N WiFi Link 6300 a/g/n 3x3 MIMO Technology
1 330-6348 Automatic Updates: On
1 342-0824 500GB 7,200RPM SATA-II HDD
1 950-3339 3 Year Limited Warranty
1 980-5877 CompleteCare Accidental DamageProtection, Inspiron, 3 Year
1 908-2108 Dell Hardware Warranty Plus On-Site Service, Extended Year(s)
1 908-2207 Dell Hardware Warranty Plus On-Site Service, Initial Year
1 908-8702 Third Party At Home Service, 24x7 Technical Support, 2 Year Extended
1 922-3410 Third Party At Home Service, 24x7 Technical Support, Initial Year
1 421-1721 Soft Contracts,Banktec Care,Alienware
1 421-1719 Soft Contracts,Consumer Complete Care,Alienware
1 993-8582 Warranty Support,2 Year Extended
1 994-3730 Warranty Support,Initial Year
1 430-0628 Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR
1 421-1360 Steam and Portal Factory Installed
1 330-5090 Thank You for Purchasing AlienWare

 

Bastages Canceled....had to call and get it re-ordered but they gave me goodies for the inconvienance...free NBD shipping and took a additional 5% off the price works for me

 

wwoods, what's your EDD?

 

Oddly enough it is now 2/2/2010 according to the email I recieved for the new order..........3 days faster, I kinda doubt its accuraste, we will see. I did make sure the origional was canceled before placing this.

Funny, the new configuration is exactly same as one they canceled....rep said was canceled for a "illegal config" but had no idea what part was illegal....

 

yeah, mine is 5/2 and i ordered 5 minutes ago. (canceled order is from 1/19, and the add was 2/10)
I think we ordered the exact same system

 

Ok.

What the heck happened to the ESD link on the configurator?

Are these shipping so fast that Dell decided no need for an estimate? lol

 

Wow. I had my order canceled and re-entered on Wednesday, and its estimating my delivery date at 2/18.

 

yeah, i kinda doubt it's accurate:
i payed for free shipping, which is 5-7 days according to dell. So if you subtract those 7 days from my EDD you get yesterday although i ordered today.

 

We will see, I will take a look monday and see what it says, maby will be updated then

 

Their policy too is if you buy an upgrade, no restock fee, but you may have to remind them on the second order to add a note to your RMA

 

Trouble in Radeon 5xxx land?

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ATI-Radeon-Gray-Screen-Crash,9529.html

 

Hello all, my first post here. can somone confirms the type of the memory coming with the ati cards is it gdd3 or 5?
Does the new m17x has the switchable internal graphics as the old model?
IF YES, can somone confirms the type and model?
Thank you

 

Hopefully the mobiles don't have this problem.

My 4870's will be fine

 

Welcome to the forum

The memory in the ati card is Gddr3

The m17xr2 has an intel motherboard and doesnt have the hybrid graphics that the r1 did

please have a good read and if you cant find anything theres a search facility in top right corner that helps.

 

Sure hope it's isolated to the desktop cards, but with more or less unified drivers, it bears watching. Actually be hard to miss. LOL.

 

Niiice, I just had them throw in the upgrade from 4gb 1066 to 4gb 1333 for free, I shoulda gone for 5%! They had another issue this morning and had to reorder mine a 2nd time, yesterday it had a 2/16 date and today's new one shows 2/2 too. Also I asked about the black chassis shortage and my rep checked around and could find nothing about it.

 

Thank you, I had a chat with Dell sales today and the rep told me it is gddr5!! and comes with the internal gfx option!!
I wasn't convinced ofcourse that why I posted.
I never used ati cards before and been to notebookcheck website and they are listing the nvidia gtx280 sli on the top of their cards in bench marks.
But in alienware US website they are promising more gfx power from the ati cards over nvidia! so I am kind lost here.

 

I wouldn't count on it buddy. Just think of them as GDDR3. You will save yourself the disappointment, and if they (will not be) happen to be GDDR5, it would be a nice bonus. Just don't bet on it.

 

I would imagine it will be DDR3. The Ati 4870's were DDR3 in the M17x-R1 so I'd imagine it would still be the same with the M17x-R2. It would be awesome if they did add DDR5 ones though. We'll know once people start getting there laptops in.

 

on my order its clearly written down as gddr3

 

From my delivery documents:

Graphics : Dual 1GB ATI GDDR3 MOBILITY RADEON HD 4870 Art.nr.: 490-11932

 

There is ZERO chance these are GDDR5.

 

Thanks all for clearifying on gddr, in the current m17x setup I don't think we will ever see the new gtx3xx cards in it as a future upgrade unless we change the motherboard (as long as intel wouldn't allow nvidia to make chipset for i7).

 

i don't see why they don't use gddr5 4870's, i mean they exist and they are probably beast

 

I read somwhere they are more expensive, are they better? don't know the answear as until yesterday I used Nvidia cards ( never used anything from red team before).

 

think of it this way the gddr5 5870's have a 128 bit bus, the gddr3 4870's have a 256 bit bus so they are almost equal, gddr5 4870's with a 256 bit bus would be awesome and probably better than the unreleased 5870's for raw horsepower. dx 11 notwithstanding.

 

Ati cards are much faster

 

How come then the lower results of ati xfire vs gtx280 sli posted on the notebookcheck website? I just don't understand

 

ATI pissed me off with the ASUS W90 issue.. NVIDIA pissed me off with the DPC latency stuff thats going on right now.

I gave up choosing sides awhile back. Whoever has the best product at the time gets my $$.

 

They are next to worthless as a site

 

If you doubt the ATI cards...just look at the links in my sig for 4870 scores, those are with stock CPU and GPU

Those scores are oustanding

 

Lol, I guess I will stay typing from my mobile until you get your beast and post us a review and some benchmarks

 

Say no more my freind, I will switch to red team next week

 

Simple. Those are OLD results, with dodgy drivers...taken from the Asus w90P...which...turned out to be using 4850s, renamed as 4870s. The Dell 4870s are FASTER.

I've owned crossfire 4850ms,and the GTX280 SLI, and I can tell you for fact, the Nvidias don't win by much, the 4870s will be a bit better!