Stone825 M9750 Repair Log

Any idea on how much you would be selling it Stone?

I just checked out the Alienware site, and they did slash the price of the m9750 by including the 1900 res screen and the 160 gb hard drive as "free" upgrades.

 

Been a while since I was able to get online, good to see your finally made some progress with alienware. As for your desktop setup, i would hold off on getting a quad core. I'm sure whatever you need it for will be manageable with 4ghz dual core. Then a little later next year you can can get a x58 motherboard and use the new I7 cpus. Thats what I'm doing for my custom rig. If you decide on nvidia instead of radeon, at leasts make sure you get a 55nm version

 

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Well when I get my new M9750 I'm selling it on these forums (and ebay) and then buying the gateway 17" with the 9800GTS.

 

The 9800GTS is slower than the 9800GT/8800GTX... Just so you know

 

i guess he knows trust me
Well Stone, if i were you, i'll do the same , sell it. this lappy has been a painful experience for you unfortunatley

 

actually, you're wrong. the 9800m-gts has higher clocks than the 9800m-gt/8800m-gtx, because it uses a better (e.g. "less nanometers") manufacturing process. however, it also has less shading units/stream processors/whatever-they're-called-these-days, so the overall performance is, despite the higher clocks, a tad worse.

 

So overall... I am right :re****:

 

well, you said "slower", which is wrong, because it's in fact "faster" in terms of clock speeds. however, it is less powerful.

and yes i know i'm nitpicking

 

Hahah you've got me, mah bad

 

The 9800GTS has got to be almost equal to 8700GT SLi (AW informed me that they could not give my 7950GTX's). Anyways, what would you guys rather have?

Outdated processor, 2.5GB ram limitation, SLi headache. or... New processor (can be upgraded), 4GB ram limitation (AFAIK), No SLi.

But yes I know that the 9800GTS is slower then the 8800GTX brainer knows me well. Anyways... I haven't been on much because of school but I try to hop on from time to time. I'm not as "in the loop" anymore so my knowledge of newer products is lacking sometimes so I haven't been able to help many people out and haven't had time to write any more guides.

 

It's still stronger than dual 7950's, no? So, either way, it's an upgrade.

 

They don't have any slave 8700GT's so that's what I'm waiting for. Offered to ship the 8700GT Slave separate at a later date but I would rather all at once.

 

Still don't have my laptop ready. It's November 2nd. I started this all on July. 14th...

This laptop has just become outdated by me not having it for however many months it has been. Never been treated like such a ***** by a company. I cannot recommend AW to anyone considering they basically have you bend over while they **** you in the ***.

For example, they need to get a slave 8700GT. How long does it take to find one...

 

demand for the new m17x w/3870?

 

Yeah Stone, I hope you can get upgraded to the new m17. No one deserves to go through what you've been through

 

Already told me that I was going to get a M9750 with Dual 8700GT's. Honestly I am so behind in my design work that I have lost many opportunities in school. For example there is a sports day called PC/GA day. Instead of splitting the work with a friend he is currently doing all of it so I just lost that for my transcript. (I needed a laptop because the people wanted to see the editing at school so they could make critiques easier).

AW has ****ed over my design work completly and all the want to do is take forever to build me a new system...

Expect a LONG post about this.

 

No email from Roswell today about any updates. Will post again tomorrow.

 

Tell them that you have a tight schedule and if they aren't able to get that slave 8700M GT, demand for the M17. Talk to their manager if you can. That usually helps.

 

I'm already talking to the head of the roswell crew who is actually out of office until the 5th (hasn't been on since Oct 30th) so I'm just sitting here with no progress known on the laptop.

 

It's unfortunate that your situation has been so...well....SH!##$. You can however take pleasure in knowing that you are helping out a lot of people with your discussions on this forum.

I have been an Alienware fan since 1996ish when they first came out. Around 3 years ago i was able to afford my first alienware in laptop form. The PC was great, but there service was less than satisfactory. I now own a new M9750 and it too is doing well. However, after following your story, I will never buy an Alienware again.....ever.

I have a stern stance on how companies should operate and Alienware has proven itself time and again to be questionable. So I just want to say thanks for all the posts and encourage you to keep posting until the situation is finished completely. People need to be made aware of the type of company Alienware really is.

 

By the way just to clear it up with everyone I am getting a new M9750 with Dual 8700GT's instead of 7950GTX's. The hang up right now is that on Oct 30th i was told there wasn't a 8700GT slave available so I'm waiting on that.

 

Yeah those are on backorder.

 

No new news today. Still waiting...

 

Hi Stone,
Is it possible for them to send it with one card and then ship you the other when it arrives?

Gabe

 

Wow out of nowhere it shipped today. Will be here on the 7th. Lets see if this one is good.

 

Grat's man

 

Read the entire thread. . .

Hope the situation get's better soon. . .

 

Haha **** it is a LONG thread. I wrote it for myself because I wanted to know exactly what happened and I also wrote it for you guys because this is what actually happened.

Should be getting it between the 7th and the 9th.

 

It's here. Unsure of whether to open it or not... hmm

 

haha you must've said a million times you'd sell it straight away when you got it again...

seriously, i woulnd'nt. sell it on ebay.

 

God dammit I can't sell it now. AW is selling their brand new M9750s for $1500 and $1700 which are equally spec'd or better than mine so I'm gonna just open it and finally get back to my photoshop work (for some reason doing photoshop work on 1920x1200 is a lot better than dual 1680x1050). Most likely because my dual monitors are different colors (that is the shades are a little off)

 

how much were you planning on selling it for?

 

Was planning on $1600 but AW is selling all of their M9750's they have left I assume so it wasn't worth my time. I remember how much I liked this laptop now but I'm still mad at AW

 

>.> you should still sell it, and you could get something much better thats not alienware. I know you didn't want a gateway, but now asus has a competing 15.4 model.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage...=asus&lp=7&type=product&cp=1&id=1218012519873
uses a 9800m gs which is just a underclocked 9800m gts, but the clocks are still higher than the old 8800m gts. All the cards still use 64 shader cores. This laptop will be on sale all next week till the following sunday for 1024$.

 

I've decided to keep the laptop. After looking at the screen I realized how much I actually like it. And I type so much faster on this keyboard vs. my desktop keyboard.

 

so, my understanding is that your lappy is full functional now? grats

 

I haven't been gaming on it but other than that it is running 100%. In addition the 8700GT's actually resume from standby properly so that's always good.

 

everything ended well =3

i <3 happy endings

 

Don't we all? =P

 

Just finished reading. A true love story )
I'm still an AW fan, but I've never bought a new AW, and never will. Becouse the bigger price doesn't worth the shtty tech support. I can fix everything myself, and I'm better off.

 

Maybe on a desktop...

 

It's pretty easy to change a mobo or a video card on a laptop. As for the parts, you can find everything on ebay pretty cheap.

 

You'll struggle to find m15x parts on ebay, especially if you wait until you need them. Agree it's not that hard to change them, but as AW don't sell spares...

 

They are just awful. I wanted to buy an M9750 mobo just last week, contacted them several times, I got replys, but no price ore anything like that. Then, yesterday they sent me an email, to send them feedback about their support. ??

 

Great aren't they

 

And I think a good company offers support for the second owners too. This way they can keep the sh prices up, and keep the premium image of the company. I'm a BMW fan too, and I had a lot of them, and always loved their support towards costumers.

 

Sorry. I just saw that I had an answer hidden in the messages. So the M9750 mobo is discontiued. AW support: Good, becouse of the answer.
Bad, becouse you can't buy a mobo if you're out of warranty.
Anyways I'm still an AW fan