The Official m15x Owners Lounge

NVM Its something you install outside the unit... and its not compatibles with laptops

 

Okay cool, at least I know Im not waayy off schedule, I guess I just want to see my phases, instead of imagining what phase Im in... Im so excited!!

 

Guess we all are waiting for M15x . Mine will come 29th Feb. Still on phase 4.

 

I wouldn't trust the phase status page too much. It still says I'm on phase 4, but my machine is with FedEx and will be here in 2 days. I ordered on 2/7 and my estimated ship date was 2/28.

 

How did you get a fedex number?

 

AW emails it to you in their shipping confirmation (however if you live in Canada, like me, then you won't get a shipping confirmation and you just have to guess )

 

Absinthe (and anyone else waiting on a 1200p screen, like myself),

i ordered on Jan 28th. Estimated shipping date was Feb 25th. However, mine may not leave phase 4 until Feb 25th at this point... reason being that they were on backorder with the chasis and a new shipment came in yesterday. My notebook wasn't fortunate enough to benefit from the new shipment so i have to wait until the next one.. which comes Feb 25th (or slightly earlier).

I too have been in phase 4 for at least a week or so now. Call in and get your order status on the phone ... if you're also still waiting for that notebook chasis (which is specific to the 1200p screen) then you may also be in the same waiting boat as myself, and we may not get our laptops until sometime in March.

 

haha i don't get phases. I just get an est. delivery date. mind u i'm Australia tho lol. looking forward to my new designing and gaming rig

ps: any1 here still play Battlefield 2142?

 

i will play when i get this baby! that game is really the best in the series right above vietnam.

 

I've gone from phase 0 to phase 1!

[1] Area-51® m15x

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Just talked to them. the backlit keyboard is on backorder.. Mine is now shipping the end of feb

 

you can have my broken one if you want it

 

Im sorry, that sucks...

 

Have no idea why, but my status just went from Phase 4 to Phase 3.

Oh well...

 

probably because they are out of lit keyboards.
she said there were so many they run out of stock, but you would think they would just order alot.

 

I don't think they counted on so many orders. Look at the delays they had at the start. Not enough gpu's, blu-ray drives, smart bay accessories, or high res screens. They've had quite a few issues.

 

I'm sorry to hear that, maguai. Two more weeks of waiting, is a long wait for something like this, but It'll be worth it.

 

Same here, Phase 4 now back to phase 3. This is one hell of a long wait.

 

im on phase 2 still, i ordered it monday night. does anyone have a time frame for phase 2? i cant play CS or any pc game really now. my ps3 is gonna get a lot of usage till this comes in.

 

I ordered the build below on 2/2 with a projected ship date of 2/19. I was in Phase 4 all last week, then in Phase 3 this morning. I called them and CS said that it it actually in production, and that the keyboard delays should not set things back more than 1 day. It is supposed to ship near the middle of next week.

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The time it takes to move from phase to phase varies. Don't trust what the site says, call them for a more accurate update. Or, forget about the phases and just go by the estimated ship date you were given.

 

Me too! What happened do you think?

 

Keyboards are back ordered.

 

^^^^ what he said. Wasnt there a discussion about it in this thread before?

 

yeah, a couple of threads

 

yeh yeah, made it to phz 3 It took 21 days.. hah

 

took me three days to get there, im lucky i guess.

 

WOOT. Finally in assembly phase. Does anyone know how long, that usually takes?? I can not remeber how long it took with my desktop.

 

For most of us in the first contingent of m15x orderers, it wasn't assembly itself that took a while, but the testing phases (more specifically, phase 6). However, this is suspected to have been caused by some software incompatibilities with the 8800 that they only discovered during manufacture -- and presumably, therefore, all current orders shouldn't have to deal with that issue.

Hopefully it should be only a few days, but there's no way for me to know that

 

OMG is it really true you can overclock the Intel® Core™ 2 X7900 2.8GHz – Extreme Edition to 3.4 ghz. I have been reading about it and eveything points to that!!

 

yeah, except for the fact that newfiejudd has it and AW doesn't provide you with the supposed-to-be-built-in BIOS commands that let you overclock it. Whether or not AW will ever update the BIOS to handle it is up in the air, but as of right now, you can't take advantage of that feature.

 

That doesn't make any sense. Is there any way around that.
Isin't there software which allows you to overclock the cpu without going into the bios..

 

So for all you owners of the M15x, how does the screen size feel when compared to a 17"? I've never owned a laptop and went into bestbuy the other day and wasnt too sure about the size. Is it a comfortable size for gaming? I appreciate the feedback.

 

i think its fine. correct me if im wrong but its 15.4", that 1.6" smaller than 17". i could care less about that. i get a smaller laptop this way. and since it has all the video ports i can plug into any tv or monitor.

 

Man, you are all lucky.... I ordered my system 15 Jan, it was shipped 01 Feb and I am still waiting for it!!!

 

Holy Jesus, I am now in phase 8 shipping prep!!!!!!! i was just in phase 5. WOOT!!!!! The time draws ever closer.
anyone know how long shipping generally takes. I live in San Diego.
So it has to come across the country.

 

*curses with jealously* lol, you should have it defintly by wensday. because i dont think weekends are counted in the 3-5 days.

 

For your sake, I hope they ship it today. If they don't, that means you have a 3 day weekend (President's Day) where they probably won't ship until next Tuesday. I live in LA, and AW shipped mine on the 1st (Friday), arrived on the 6th (Wednesday).

 

Hey guys i'm not sure if anyone is still having issues with the audio coming out of the HDMI port cause I tested mine last night and it works fine.

 

I just got a reply from AW about the phase thing.

Here is the reply:

Greetings from Alienware!

We are glad to inform you that your order is currently in the Assembly stage (Phase 5).
We would also like to inform you that the shipping lead time you were given when you placed the order is still in effect (2/28/2008).

On the other hand, we would like to ask you to please disregard the information that you received from our website notification system stating that your order had gone back to Phase 3. Unfortunately, there has been a glitch in our notification system and the information you received was not accurate. This matter has already been taken to the corresponding department, and they are working to fix the problem as promptly as possible.
We would like to apologize for this misunderstanding.

We hope this information has been helpful to you.

As soon as we have further information about your order, we will inform you via email.

So just stick to the estimated shipped date.

 

Told you. Forget the phases and go with the original date you were given.

 

ommg I just hit phase 5. yehyeh

 

Me too! I went into phase 5 this morning then just now Phase 8! Yay. I hope this is not some weird system blip.

 

I jump from phase 3 to phase 8 today. What the hell is going on? Maybe we may get lucky like SHIMA. Order on Jan 28 and got on feb 5th. (4 days lucky chap).

 

I can only hope that it ships today or tomorrow..I am going insane waiting for this thing. ahhhhhhhhh....

 

Is there ANYONE who has Crysis benchmarks?

I seem to have only found... no one...

 

not really but it runs flawlessly at high @144o native res.

 

Wtf what about the very high settings. Thats what I wanna see.

 

from what I have read very high will not be playable. The good thing about 1440 by 900 native is that crysis on high plays decently from what I have read. I finally sorted out my issues with AW and they realized some mistakes they have made (posted in another thread) and I placed my order 3 days ago. I am on phase 5

 

why can you not use very high settings???, Are they not accessible??
There is a patch I used on mine, which requires you to only copy one file in the root folder. I do not have vista, but the file allows for all the settings to be set to a thing called custom. This has enabled all of the high dynamic range lighting as well as all teh special effects. I would like someone here to try it.
I feel that with vista, and the strong processor and gpu, the game will run great.