*OFFICIAL* M17x Order Status Thread...

About 2 - 4 hours

 

Yay, mine is in the building stage also, shipping date still hasnt changed though

 

thanks Sleey. Just called. In build phase, est ship 6/30. Woo Hoo!!

 

build phase, EST ship 7/6......

 

Just a reminder what the different steps are can be found at:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=156489

[Sleey0 originally published the link near the beginning of this thread. I just thought I would repeat it here since people can make use of it now.]

 

i have a simple question, are your orders taking this long because of the building time? or is it because there's a release date thats holding it back?

 

not sure

but its not building times, it could be they are double checking every thing. the release date is past there are some orders EST for june..... you have to understand they now have hundreds of thousands of systems to build

 

I still think that most systems ordered on June 2nd and June 3rd will come in June, way before the EDD of July 2nd or July 3rd.

 

Just wish DELL would treat all customers the same and give them the same facilities. The only way we here in Europe can track our order is through the internet. And we can't get more detailed info through telephone.

 

Agreed, dell needs to make things equal for all of their customers, like charging us all the exact same price for their products with the only differences being exchange rate and taxes, none of this 300-1300 dollar/pound/euro surcharge just because we are ordering from another country, its bad enough we have exchange rate and taxes to deal with.

 

Yep, but I'm afraid it ain't gonna happen.

 

Thanks sleey for the number. I am of course like everyone else also in the build stage. This may be a long month in my life.

 

Is any of you guys, who reported to be in Production, already in the Testing or Boxing sub-category? Or is it still Build-category

Just wondering how long the Build category will take.

 

ordered: 5th June, order confirmed, ETA unknown

Dell/Alienware M17x Black | QX9300 | 4 GB RAM @ 1333 MHz | GTX 280M SLI | 1 TB Raid0 (2x 500GB, 7200 rpm) | Vista Home Premium | DVD

i may have gone overboard. i'm hoping games will start using all 4 cores (efficiently) and SLI performance might improve. otherwise...I should've gone for the Sager 9280 with the (also quad) core i7 extreme and single 280M and saved about 1000 USD. if that fails, perhaps smoother game runs with all windows processes taking 2 cores and leaving 2 for the game.

didn't want raid0 but the only other options were SSDs and i don't want those just yet.

 

Nice purchase!

I wish i had extra money for the extreme quad to start off with but I didn't. I am hoping that they will come down in price and around Christmas I can upgrade it.

 

I wish I did too jk. i've been waiting to get a 'dream rig' for a long time now and had the cash saved for quite some time but then all the laptops with dual GPUs suddenly disappeared so I had to wait some more.

I'm hoping the results on these pages are more pronounced now: http://www.guru3d.com/article/cpu-scaling-in-games-with-quad-core-processors/3 - from May 2008.

I probably should've done that :-/

 

Anyone notice a change in my sig?

 

OMG are you serious. That is so awesome

 

Call and check yours. Funny thing is delivery date didn't change.

 

On my last two orders with dell, it would ship but the on line Estimated date never changed. Even after i got the computers.. Checking now.. I am so excited.. Hope to get mine soon.

 

Still in build stage for me. I didn't order until 6/5 so may be a little delayed.

 

So everyone who ordered on 6-4 or before should be in the boxing stage unless they have a part on backorder.

 

Boxing stage will take about 3 days - it includes the time from the plant in Malaysia until it ships out of Tennessee.

CONGRATS MANDRAKE!!!!

 

I have ordered many systems from Dell and some ship before esd and the date never changes.

Boxing means it has shipped from overseas factory to the USA

 

Thanks, did yours change? I want to see someone else say it change to make sure there isn't some mistake with the automated system.

 

mine still says in building stage and i ordered on the third, nothing backordered either atleast nothing sayin so yet. End of today it will probably change though if others have changed.

 

One side note, my original call in to Dell was exactly 8:00AM CST on 6-2. Because of the complete care warranty issue with the EPP site my order didn't officially place until 6-4. I wonder if my place in the queue was held for me.

 

more than likely if yours is one of the first to go in boxing your place was probably held in queue, if the boxing stage is in fact true it's good news for the rest of us which means these system may ship next week sometime.

 

Yeah, if sleey's estimates are correct it should be here in a week.

 

Mine is still in build and I believe my system went into production on 6/3.

Don't worry - I'll keep checking!

 

you mean building?

 

Yeah... Just woke up

 

I'm assuming at this point the ETA won't change until it's shipped.

 

I am in the boxing stage as well, with next day shipping it should come very fast ! I knew it would come faster than the EDD that was listed, and that it was just there to prevent backlash. I am so excited I cant wait for this system to arrive !

 

Thanks Morgotth, it proves mine isn't an error. When did you order?

 

When did you order and what's your specs, Morgoth?

 

I ordered the third of June, my specs are qx9300, dual 280m GTX's, 4 gigs 1333mhz RAM, 250 gig 7200rpm HDD, and 1920x1200 screen with the color being Space Black and my OS is Vista Ultimate 64 bit.

 

Hmmm... I wonder if there is a shortage on the 260's.

 

Clauss was talking about parts being back ordered. I wonder if his has changed.

 

He said black chassis (which you two in boxing have ) and T9600 (I got base proc).

 

Yeah I guess the top end and base procs were not as popular. I love my spec though, 4 gigs of ram is more than enough, for games I probably wouldn't even notice more ram, and I can't wait to max out crysis !

 

I actually just put in an order for Crysis Maximum Edition. I haven't even seen this game yet.

 

Yeah I bought that too it's a great package

 

I ordered on the morning of the first day (June 2nd) and just called. My order is still in the build stage. (rats....) Shouldn't it show somewhere that it's delayed for some reason?

 

You could call a rep and ask them, or it could just be a backorder.

 

Clauss said he was getting called with parts that were back ordered.

 

Ordered on 6-4 currently in Boxing Stage.

 

congrats kg

 

Ordered on 6/4 as well and still in building stage.

This is just a thought, but could it be possible that dell may sit on the shipments of these laptops till after the 26th? Maybe for a possible windows 7 upgrade coupon? Just throwing it out there.

 

Probably not, that would cause backlash since we know its in the boxing phase it would not be a good idea on their part. If they wanted to do that they would have just kept the order status on build, thats what I think anyways. I doubt they would sit on the shipments for that.