Sent my Cashiers Ck today

I've been salivating for an Alienware laptop for many years and knew for sure it was a pipe dream and I'd never have one. Time, space and unexpected good fortune fell into place when my Sony Vaio PCG GRT-380zg of a lemon gave up the ghost for the forth time. This being the third break down with the same problem but this time out of warranty. They wanted $800 to repair it.
Today Feb 27, 2009 I sent in my banks cashiers check for $5565.30 for an M17. I would have gone with BluRay but I will be making CD's of my own music and I might use the LightScribe. If they offered the BluRay burner as an option, I would have chosen it.
I wonder how long I'm going to have to wait.
A week to clear the check and then three weeks? 4 weeks total?
It's been years and years since I've been excited about a material possession.
Here is what I ordered;
[1] M17

Video/Graphics Card: Dual 512MB ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3870 - CrossFireX™ Enabled!
Processor: Intel® Core™2 Extreme Quad QX9300 2.53GHz (12MB Cache, 1066MHz FSB)
Design & Display: Black Skullcap Design
Chassis: 17-Inch WideUXGA 1920 x 1200 LCD (1200p) with Clearview Technology
Keyboard Options: Illuminated Keyboard – Alienware Exclusive Design - Astral Blue
Operating System (Office software not included): Genuine Windows Vista® Ultimate (64-bit Edition) with Service Pack 1
Notebook Tuners and Remotes: Internal Digital / Analog (ATSC) TV Tuner with Adapter
Memory: 4GB« Dual Channel DDR3 SO-DIMM at 1066MHz – 2 x 2048MB

System Drive: Extreme Performance (RAID 0) - 512GB (256GB x 2) Solid State Drive
Optical Drives : 8x Dual Layer Burner (DVD±RW, CD-RW) w/ LightScribe Technology
Wireless Network Card: Internal Intel® Ultimate N 5300 a/b/g/Draft-N Mini-Card with MIMO Technology
Sound Card : Internal High-Definition Audio with Surround Sound
Mobile Essentials: XBrand Lap Lounge with USB cooling fan - notebook stand
Warranty: 3-Year AlienCare Onsite Service and 24/7 Toll-Free Phone Support
AlienRespawn: AlienRespawn v2.0 Recovery DVD – Windows Vista® Edition
Power: Additional Battery – 12-cell Lithium-Ion Battery
Power: Additional AC Adapter - Alienware® M17 230 Watt Additional AC Adapter
Mouse: Wireless Mouse - Logitech VX™ Revolution Mouse


Alienware Extras: Alienware® Mesh Cap
Alienware Extras: Alienware® Mobile Binder
Alienware Extras: Owner Identification Card
Alienware Extras: M17 Protective Cloth Sleeve
Alienware Extras: M17 Keyboard Diagram Overlay
Avatar: Alienhead Glow
Window Style: Graphite Window Style
Mouse Pointers: Standard Mouse Pointers
Wallpaper: Alienhead Glow
Power Plan: High Performance
Automatic Updates: Automatic Updates On for Critical Updates Only
Sidebar Gadgets: Calendar
Sidebar Gadgets: Notepad
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SubTotal: $5,166.00
Shipping: $84.28
Discount: $0.00
Tax: $315.02
Order Total: $5,565.30

 

Is that all

Lucky you

 

good god what a setup! I just got mine from fedex today but won't get to use it till monday. Mine was less than half of what yours was I'm on the opposite spectrum

 

mobile quad FTW

 

Crazy setup you have there/ and welcome to the forums!

 

Wow, great setup - that's a real monster. Congratulations!

 

Welcome to NBR. You should write a review for us and run some benchmarks,in other words Crysis. You will prob. be able to max out ANY GAME. And WOWOWOWOWOWOW

What a system...congrats and welcome to NOTEBOOK Gaming.

 

nice system for sure please do come back and write a review and throw in some bench marks on the SSD and what kind they are

 

Thanks for the well wishes!
I'll post benchmarks and a review when the smoke clears.

 

WOW! Maxed out basically everything with a solid state drive as well. That is an absolutely crazy machine. Congrats!

 

Congratulations. Just out of curiosity though, how long have you had your VAIO for?

Enjoy your new machine and post some benchmarks/pictures!

Duane

 

I think it was a four year warranty i had on the Sony. So I've had it almost five years. The motherboard was replaced twice and I was told it needed a new one this go round too. The LCD screen was replaced twice. The last time a tech looked at it, he said that the processor had been replaced twice when the motherboard had been replaced.

 

Going from that VAIO to the monster you've just built is going to blow you away. Congratulations!

 

I sure hope this thing blows me away. I don't know what's worse;
paying for it or waiting for it.
It's been pins and needles since I started configuring it knowing I was going to get one. This is just torture!!!
Two things are setting the arrival time back and that's;
1. Paying with a cashiers check
2. ordering Extreme Performance (RAID 0) - 512GB (256GB x 2) Solid State Drive will take 10 more days because it has to be ordered.
There was a second item on order but I can't seem to find it or remember. So I guess that part arrived at the mother ship already.
I may be hospitalized by the time the alien arrives. :cry:
I'm guessing early April for arrival.

 

lol that sucks i had to wait 30 days for mine so i know the feeling

 

very nice system, im very tempted to get one they look really cool but the parts for them are extremely over priced like £80 for 2gb ram WTH???

 

Hmmmm that's bad news. I've heard more bad things about this laptop than good things. Very bad things. That's a lot of money to spend on a computer. Might as well just get a 500 dollar laptop and use the other 5k for something productive instead. Anyways congrats I guess but that's way more than that laptop is worth and it's probably going to cack out like 80% of the M17X and M15X here.

 

what bad have you heard about the
<s>"Whitebook"</s>/M17????

its a solid machine its super expensive and i couldnt get it but if he has the money no reason for him not to if he wants he he did earn the money ....don't bash him for buying something he wanted. he also could needed it for work ....like video encoding or decodeing ......not many quad core laptops ....

 

god thats going to be a BEAST!
congrats =)

 

Thank you Mr. Moo. You are correct! This machine will be used encoding, decoding videos and for music creation and editing.
There's not much enjoyment waiting for a PC to catch up & react to an input.
Power & speed is a need.
But I am curious as to what these " bad things" & " Very bad things" are that Blackhalo has been hearing about the M17.
And thanks for the " congats" Blackhalo

 

Congrats on the system

There are no bad things as far as I can tell
the laptop is a solid machine doesn’t overheat and performs well, the only bad thing 'back halo' maybe talking about is alienware company its self
The m17/whitebook is brilliant enjoy

Could you please enlighten us black halo

 

For better or for worse, the Alien has landed. Got here 20 minutes ago. Have some chores to do before I can get to it though. Will let everyone know my opinion and the marks when I get it going.

 

I'm jealous - both of the system, and that you have it... I just started the process, ordered mine yesterday, advised of a backorder on graphics card today, looking at early april arrival...

I hate waiting....

Edit: Oh, and congrats! I'll eagerly await the report, along with the rest of us. Particularly interested if you have any heat issues - though I didn't opt for the solid state drives, so mine with a conventional HDD will probably run a touch warmer than yours, I'd guess. Heat was a big issue in my old laptop, and I'm paranoid that the new one will be touchy as well.

 

You fellow space travelers have been terrific! I'm been very fortunate to have found you all. Heat was one of the major reasons that made me get the SSDs

 

Hey congrats man,
IMO that's money well spent and on a superior product too. Obviously it's money well spent in your opinion too and thats the only one that matters.

Rob41

 

That thing is crazy tricked out.