Quickship

I'm leaving for vacation in less than a month and it is of great importance that I have my laptop by the beginning of august, so much so that I'm willing to order the quickship edition of the m17x, which would ship 2 days, rather than the week (which turns into a month from what I've read) for a custom built alienware. With a $2500~ budget, I've been able to consider a bunch of computers, from Alienware to the Dell XPS, and I even checked out Sager (though xoticpc is sold out and taking pre-orders, which wouldn't arrive till eary august). While I've been able to customize each one, I end up with very similar specs within 100-200 dollars of each other, which is no problem.

Anyway, does anyone have an recent experiences with the quickship edition, or any alienware laptop for that matter that they could share? Does any one laptop ship quicker than the other, or should I worry about the week or so estimated shipping date turning into a month?

 

Don't buy the M17x quickship, it is not worth it at all since you are only getting dual 8700GT's which honestly is not worth the pain. Just deal with not having your laptop for vacation because you will regret paying more for SLi 8700GT's when a single 8800GTX will beat them.

A note to everyone: SLi is a HUGE pain on notebooks and I would stay away from it whenever possible. With that said, get the Sager NP5796.

Here is the reason why.

"The 5793 will be replaced by the NEW NP5796 with the latest Intel chipset, processor technology, DDR3/1066MHz memory added ESATA and HDMI Ports, beginning the week of July 14th."

All of that is very good and ESATA is great for using an external hard drive.

Sager NP5793
- 17" WSXGA (1680x1050)
- Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound
- Intel® T9300 45nm "Penryn" Core™2 Duo 2.5GHz w/6MB L2 On-die cache - 800MHz FSB
- 512MB PCI-Express nVidia GeForce 8800M GTX DX10 (User Upgradeable)
- SPECIAL~ 4,096MB DDR2 667 PC2 5300 (2 SODIMMS) Dual Channel Memory (Requires Vista 64-Bit to recognize Full 4GB) FREE UPGRADE
- NP579x Orange Frame Trim Color
- Combo 8x8x6x4x Dual Layer DVD +/-R/RW 5x DVD-RAM 24x CD-R/RW
- 160GB 5400RPM (Serial-ATA 150)
- Internal 7-in-1 Card Reader (MS/MS Pro/MS Duo/MS Pro Duo/SD/Mini-SD/MMC/RS)
- Internal Bluetooth 2.0+ EDR
- Built-in Intel® PRO/Wireless 4965 802.11 a/g/n
- Built in 2.0 Megapixel Camera
- Sound Blaster Compatible 3D Audio - Included
- Basic Black Business Case - Included
- Integrated Fingerprint Reader
- 3 Year Parts & Labor Warranty 24/7 Tech Support

$2,431.00

That laptop will BLOW your M17x away.

Addition: Compare it to the quickship M17x
Core 2 Duo 2.2Ghz : Slower
1920x1200 Screen : Higher res
Dual 8700GTs : Slower
160GB 7200RPM : Quicker
2GB Ram : Slower
Non-illuminated keyboard : Losing the point of buying the M17x
3yr warranty : Same
Price = $2900 : Yea that's not good.

If you buy the M17x you are paying a lot more for a slower computer and you don't even get all of the lights.

 

I'm not worried about bringing my laptop on vacation with me. If I wanted to sit on the computer, I would just sit at home. What I'm worried about is what will happen to the laptop if they ship it early august after I've left and nobody will be back for at least 2 weeks. The sager you listed above is estimated to ship in early august (I remember reading that somewhere), meaning it will arrive after I've left. What does fedex/UPS do with the delivery if I'm not home for each of their attempts to deliver it?

 

@Liquid - I actually do not know the answer to that. What you could do is just order the laptop when you get back from vacation or try to order it while you are on vacation.

Don't buy a slower more expensive computer just to get it earlier. Honestly it is not worth it and you will be very dissapointed with the performance considering my M9750 could probably keep up and come ahead of your M17x quickship in some cases.

 

Seems that I can fall fedex with my tracking# and ask them to hold onto the package until I come and pick it up from their warehouse (which is pretty close to me). Guess I will be ordering that Sager!

Thanks for the help stone.

 

well i ordered my m17x with these specs:

Area-51® m17x

Video/Graphics Card: Dual 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce® Go 8700M GT – SLI Enabled
Display: 17" WideUXGA 1920 x 1200 LCD with Clearview Technology – Black
System Lighting: Alienware® AlienFX® System Lighting - Red
Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T8300 2.4GHz (3MB Cache 800MHz FSB)
Memory: 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 667MHz – 2 x 2048MB
Operating System (Office software not included): Windows Vista® Home Premium with Service Pack 1
Notebook Tuners and Remotes: Internal Digital/Analog (ATSC) MiniCard TV Tuner with Express Card Media Center Remote Control
System Drive: Extreme Performance (RAID 0) - 500GB (250GB x 2) 7,200RPM (8MB Cache) w/ Free Fall Protection
Optical Drive: 8x Dual Layer Burner (DVD±RW, CD-RW) w/ LightScribe Technology - View Demo
Wireless: Internal Intel® Wireless 4965 a/b/g/Draft-N Mini-Card
Sound Card : Internal High-Definition Audio with surround sound

and the order was placed on the 9th and i am on phase 6 atm and the way it is going it should ship by tuesday or wednesday. this was the non quick ship edition anf for some reason when i tried ordering the quickship edition that was coming for early august i didnt get it. but anyways i think alienware has learnt its lesson from the m15x and i guess started ordering more of everything...well ill let you know how that goes but the week deadline is looking pretty good and the latest that i am going to laptop is next friday. I would suggest not going with the quickship because i think they were out of stock thats why the shipping is so much later.

 

so you paid over 1000 dollars for keyboard lights? nice. see the sager9262

 

im sorry to say this but dont hold your breath on the ship date of next week.
there are lots and lots of people that have ordered on the first day of release and they are still waiting. so far weve only seen 3 people that have received their 17x and am still waiting for reviews. take no notice of the phase page as it is totally inaccurate and this has been confirmed by AW

appart from that, good luck on your new purchase.

 

haha well i did the same specifications on the 9262... $700 cheaper so yea i paid 700 to have IMO a better chassis and the sager that your talking about just looks like **** sorry to say (of course that my opinion) and I was willing to pay the 700 to buy myself the computer i wanted.

yea well im hoping for the best. and well from what i have heard is that the systems that were delayed have the new 8800m GTXs in it and i ordered mine with the 8700m GT SLI i know thats not the best but thats what i wanted and i got it and the ones with the 8700m GT have been coming out quicker because the 8800 GTXs are backordered

 

@Liquid - No problem man. I like it when I'm able to effectively communicate with people here and help them out. Since you had a budget of around $2400, it made no sense to get the M17x because you would be missing out on a lot of the key reasons to buy that notebook. With that said, the Sager will offer a lot more power for a lesser price. Just make sure to get the xoticpc warranty.

Also: Thanks for being so easy to talk to here and not just having your mind dead set on AW because now you are getting a computer that is at least 10 - 20% faster (in 3dmark) than the M17x you had spec'd.

 

i think they have a storage fee for that. you should check with fed ex.

 

I know this is off topic but just wanted to let MrDJ know:
just a little update phase 8 w00t w00t just happend I think alienware has somewhat learnt his lesson from m15x so the tuesday or wednesday ship date is looking pretty good i hope so.