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yes the lg pannel is the one you want im sending mine straight back if i get the samsung

 

what games are people planning on playing on the m1730 i know im looking forward to playing Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts, Call of Duty 4, Medal of honour airborne and Crysis could it play most of these games on max settings?

 

Playing Medival total war 2 on max settings

 

Ordered mine 18th Oct 2007:
Estimated Delivery date: 30th Oct 2007

Will just mention the parts that might differ from others (no PhysX card):
Blue - T7500 (2.2Ghz), 4Gig Ram, Vista Home Premium, 2x250Gig 5400rpm, Bluetooth Module + free bluetooth headset, mouse and belkin messenger bag - price is $3468 AU Dollars. Anyone else notice that they have taken the price up by $100 in Australia? I got my order in the day before!

I'm exchanging this for an XPS M1710 I got about a month ago.

 

yep the price just keeps going up and up lol...looks like I shal be waiting a long time for the system to come down before I even consider purchasing an XPS 1730 (or XPS 1520 if/when its released)

This has been the offers in Australia for the past few weeks:

xps 1730
2.4ghz T7700 DC2D
Vista Business
4GB RAM
2 X 160gb 7200rpm HD
Sound Blaster Audio
Ageia PhysX Card
3Yr Warranty
9 Cell Battery

Date: Price: Extras:
04/10/2007 $3,756.50 Berklin Bag
08/10/2007 $3,979.70 N/A
12/10/2007 $4,423.10 Berklin Bag
17/10/2007 $4,423.10 N/A
18/10/2007 $4,284.50 usb 2gb key, surge cube
21/10/2007 $4,523.20 usb 2gb key, surge cube

 

mine cost about 5000 AUD

 

YOU GUYS DONT NEED A COOLING PAD OR ANYTHING unless your using xps on bed, sofa, or carpet, or using it at the desert

It uses a dual fan so the cooling system is excellent.
Good thing that Dell made this rig so you wont feel heat from the keyboards.
If you touch the rear areas where the fan outlets are, they are hot but no worries because it means its exhausting hot air.
However, you wouldnt want the xps rear area to be touching the wall because obviously, the heat will be trapped and it might overheat.

So far, I have already played:
Half Life 2: Orange Box
Portal
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Command and Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars
Call of DUty 4 demo

I didnt encounter ANY heating problems.
So ppl who are wonderin if the xps can cook an egg omlet, IT CANT

 

Just managed to get the dell xps 1730 for 2575 usd .Now that price defineley compares with alienware and sager

 

Sure whatcha need?

 

Can i ask how u enabled SLI in COD4..i hear the demo does not support this...and what were framerates like at high settings?

 

Man, what options did you pick? That's quite expensive.

You can get a mint as Dell XPS 720 Desktop for that much money.

 

Called Order Status Line - in boxing stage - finally!

 

Nice, I managed to pick mine up for about £1900... I know Alienware wont be matching that

 

Does anyone know what the Watt/amp output of the m1730 power brick is? I need to make sure my DC inverter can support it.

 

I need to know if my power brick will short circuit the plane, while I'm playing games on my way to Germany.

 

The battery is Li-Ion 11.1 V, 85Wh which equates to 7658 milliamp hours...

 

Wow! Pretty good service. Man, he must have been shaking after chatting with you. You should be an interegator!

 

ahh it started at 2,999, extra 1000 on extreme CPU, 400 on memory, 150 on vista, 200 on extra hard drive, 350 on blu ray, 60 on belkin bag, 100 on longer warranty, 150 on internet security, 50 on mouse. it adds up

 

US buyer here, and after dealing with dell i can confirm CD2 proc, is delayed 64ssd delayed, and BR delayed.

 

In that case, I guess I won't be too disappointed, that I could not afford any of those yummy goodies.

 

Go to options and setting. u will see a column that says dual graphic or something like that. However, im not sure if the demo actaully supports SLIs.

At the maximum setting, it wasnt that good. But if you lower the texture or something else to medium and keep the rest high, the framerates inreases.

 

so basically the texture stuff is what slows the cards down. Is that because they are 128? But if there are two shouldn't that add up to 256?

 

No, because one card renders half of the screen and the other the other half. It doesn't combine the cards' bus to make 256.

Theoretically you should get similar performance, however in reality it doesn't quite live up to it...

 

Thanks for the comments on LCD panels. So far it seems that people in Australia and NZ only have the Samsung screen. I am going to call and speak to a contact I have in Dell today and see if she can give me any idea on what my chances are of getting an LG panel.

I'll post my results.

 

Mine just arrived in the Main Dell Depot in Australia today. Where is this exactly, Sydney or Melbourne?

 

thanks for the post of your chat with dell it gave me a laugh and dell only giving me missery at the min my order is suposed to be shipped in the next 7 days but im still in pre production stage and have been since the 5th

and iv just saw someone say its 2 x 128 cards is this correct i thought it was 2x 256????

 

forget that last comment about the cards im going crazy starting to belive evrything i read lol see what dell is doing to me cant even think straight

 

I was referring to the memory bus being 128 bit, not 256 bit. The 8700's come with 256MB of memory each...

 

Hi this is my first post, I've been reading this thread for sometime and was just wondering if any one is getting the bone white version of the 1730, if so could you post some images of the back, with the light on. It would also be good if I could see pictures of the back for the other colors with the lights on (crimson red, sapphire blue, and smoke grey)

 

sorry mate my head is fryed from talking to dell all day going round in circles

 

We ever find out what "Dual-Rank" means? I know people said NVIDIA have not released any information on it, and others have said its just marketing BS, but that does not seem plausable to me.

If it was a marketing ploy, wouldnt they say..

Memory Bus: 256-bit*
*Duel-Rank

That way they can make the card look better. Not just stick a vague label in after 128bit making people think "Whats that mean?".
While "Duel-Rank" does not a 256bit Memory Bus make, i dont believe it does NOTHING and is all in NVIDIA's imagination. I am interested to know what it is, performance gains or none aside. Maybe its something that is specific to SLI configurations..... i hope they tell us soon.

 

Y'know, that's the very problem I have with Dell. All their customer service people just act like... robots. I always feel I'm dealing with an android -vs- a real, caring person. Those responses are just so cold and uncaring - just pre-programmed for the Indian tech support user to cut and paste in response.

 

If no one ends up showing pics, just search Google.

 

you'd be surprised how little new information, and pics are out there.
I mean 4 videos on you tube, I mean c'mon!!

 

Yeah I'm almost thinking of posting one myself!

 

docmars that would be greatly appreciated, because i can hardly find any pics on the web, which one do you have.

 

Well I don't have my M1730 quite yet ....

ESD is the 29th, but hopefully it will be shipped before then because it's in Testing stage apparently, and that shouldn't take all week to do, I'd hope not at least!

 

Im getting mine today in a couple of hours. The DHL guy better come here first if he knows whats good for him
Im going to post comprehensive picks and video.

 

mine says its boarded the ship on the 20th as soon as i get it i will post a video on you tube showing my thoughts and playing some games, its a saphire blue just to let you know.

 

Hey wildog,

I'm in Melbourne and mine flew in today. Should be getting mine tomorrow as it's with a local courier now.

I don't know why its getting here so quick (1 week in total).

 

Mine will also be arriving sometime later today. getting pumped!

 

thats pretty fast, do you know if it comes by plane or ship or do you have to pay extra, i just want know how long it takes to get from were it was made to melbourne as it has been two days since it was in the shipping stage, how long was the wait from start of shipping stage to when it arrived in Australia, my estimated delivery date is the 29th and it seems a bit long when the laptop boarded a ship on the 20th?

 

It was plane because it left the factory (in Asia somewhere?) on the 19th and arrived at the courier on the 22nd. I didn't pay for any express service either.

I don't know why it was so fast, a lot of the people in the US and Europe have to wait over a month even with express!

Below is a cut'n'paste from the Dell website:

16-Oct-2007 Order Received
16-Oct-2007 Order released to manufacturing
19-Oct-2007 Ship from Factory
20-Oct-2007 Loading for Export
22-Oct-2007 Arrived in Australia Main Hub
22-Oct-2007 Dispatch to Local Courier

Got a phone call from the courier to deliver tomorrow morning, 5 working days all up.

 

mines in aust now, too - stoked

 

thanks, i was wanting to hear that. your playign all the games i am looking forward too.

for me hopefully i will receive mine 29 october. fingers crossed!

 

i am getting the bone white. EDD is 29 October 2007. hope you can wait...

 

OMG, that sucks. i was hoping to run CPD4 on maximum settings. Does it still look ok when you run it on settings with SOLID framerates?? (i rather sacrifice graphics for proper non lagging speed)

any chance of a screenshot please? (not on max settings, but on settings when you can actually play the game decently)

 

yeh mr bubbles, mine was basically the same, put my order in on 16th it was on plane or ship by 20th and it says its expected on the29th hopefully it will be like yours and be at my house by tomoro , lets just hope the date changes.

 

woops i mean hopefully its like urs and i get it on wednesday or thursday, the expected arrival date on the confirmation email was the 25th.

The only thing on my mind until this laptop comes is when is it gonna come and pls dont have a bad screen like samsung!!

 

I guess we are the lucky country eh!