Yet another m15x on the way...

Hi, i found this forum by searching info about the m15x as i wanted to buy it.
I have seen people satisfied of it and people unhappy and which had problems with their notebooks.
Had some second thoughts about buying it but i thought i should "try my luck" and placed an order through UK website as i'm from Europe.

Display: 1440 x 900 (720p)
Graphics Processor : 512MB NVidia® GeForce™ Go 8700M GT
Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T9300 2.5GHz (6MB Cache 800MHz FSB)
Memory: 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 667MHz - 2 x 1024MB
System Drive: Single Drive Configuration - 120GB 7200 RPM (8MB Cache) with Free Fall Protection
CD/DVD/RW: 8x Dual Layer Writer (DVD±RW, CD-RW)
Keypad: Alienware® Area-51 m15x AlienFX® Keyboard - English
AlienRespawn: AlienRespawn v2.0 Recovery DVD – Windows Vista Edition
Portable Storage: Alienware® USB 2.0 4GB Flash Drive
Mobile Transport: Alienware® Odyssey Backpack

I'm not much of a gamer, i'm a programmer, but i'll play some if they'll work nice on the above specs.
I chosed alienware because it's so coool.

Made the payment on 04/22/2008 and currently in Phase 2.

Finger crossed.

EDIT: Phase 4
EDIT2: Phase 5 (30/04)

 

Hi danieLs and welcome to the forum and soon to be m15x user.
im not sure about any of the graphics cards but as yours is a 512mb it should be very good, compared to all the off the shelf computers that use shared grapics or at the most 128mb.

 

congrats on the purchase. hope your m15x wont come with any problems. the 8700 is a good card. the card should last you around 2 years playing with a bit higher specs.

 

Welcome to the club. Looks like you have a good machine that was my original config before I bumped up my processor. I think you'll be very happy let us know how it goes and also let us know if you have any questions.

 

Update: Phase 4

 

so am i. and now we get to wait for screens.

 

This is ordering from Alienware UK, right? So my machine is held up on the 1440x900 screen too?

Pants.

 

i think so. at least the german website says 8 days wait for the screen. so is yours, judging from the config page. well let's hope they can speed things up a bit

 

Hi, and welcome to the boards. Aside from the HDD, your config is identical to mine, and aside from a strange keyboard problem (which i highly doubt you'll run into), I've been very happy with it. the 8700 holds its own very well.

 

Congrats and welcome to the m15x club!

 

Going to be an awesome system...good luck and welcome =)

K.Shub

 

thanks, but number of posts like http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=243517 is kind of growing and really makes me have second thoughts :-S

 

just remember not all m15x customers visit this place. you're bound to see a higher percentage of lemons at a place like this.

 

Update: Phase 5

 

i'm STILL in phase 4... even though the CS guy told me all parts where now available...

 

maybe they haven't updated the status page yet

 

Phase 9
I'm all excited but what about Phase 7(System Testing) and Phase 8(Quality Control), so fast?
anyway as i said, finger crossed, hope it's all good

 

you said it yourself, the online status thingy doesn't get updated nearly as often as it should. MrDJ had 30min of phase 5 as well... then again, his m15x turned out to be a half-lemon so...

 

now i should recive a DHL tracking number?

 

as soon as dhl has it, yeah. you might've missed the last pickup run though. which would mean you get the tracking number tommorow.

 

ok, thanks for the info