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you so know you wont cancel it, why would you cancel it if it its a couple days late, theres probably nothing wrong with it.

 

ok so i might not cancel it (it IS a sweet ass rig) but still.......3-4 weeks for production......

 

yeah im from australia and everything has been blazing, ordered mine on the 16th and its due to be delviered today at 4pm-8pm (its 7:40am atm) so yeah nine days isnt bad at all, maybe its not in such high demand in South east asia

 

Oh crap. Mine just went into production, and so I immediately presumes it would only be in production 1 or 2 days. But 3-4 weeks Lucidburner ?? Thats how long its been in production?!

 

ordered sept 24th, dell canceled, it without warning on the 28th.i reinstated it, before the first and the whole time its been in production, esd nov 13.... we'll see.
to be fair i speced it to the limit.........

edit, wow i can type really.

 

I got mine about an hour ago, first post from it. A few little problems,
there are a few pixels stuck
left speaker leds dont work
base isnt very flat
Windows vista certificate of authenticity is ripped
Got the samsung screen, the light leaks at the bottom as reported by most other owners but i think the rest of the screens quality is fine.

I will be contacting Dell after my exams to get the led and the screen looked at.

 

Same with mine, I did think it was my desk though, guess not.

 

Anyone else got any dead or stuck pixels on their lcd?

 

No dead/stuck pixels on mine.

 

Did anyone here get dellcare plus or premium?

 

3 years of the best support and warranty that dell offers

 

I think its more due to the CPU..

If you play graw2 and check your cpu stats.. they are really high.. mine sits at 90%

 

what cpu do u have?

 

Yeh, I got dell care plus, so I hope they will be here in a hurry to fix my led and give me a new lcd coz i'm not happy with the dead pixels.

 

Spent the whole day setting up my work development environment on my new 1730. Works great. Came with the LPL0032 - is that the same thing as the "LG" monitor people have been talking about?

Overclocked to a modest 3.0 GHz and no extra fan noise.

Uninstalled Google search and Google toolbar. Other than that, I only had to remove a few startup items and services.

Fortunately, the wireless driver is from Intel rather than the Dell driver that came with my 1710 (which caused endless headaches till I disabled it)

The screen is nice and bright. I think it refers to the display as LED in the bios rather than LCD and it appears to have a consistent, crisp, even brightness over the entire screen. Quite nice compared to the 1710.

At 3.0 GHz, super pi to 1M runs in 17.706s.

Tried out the Ghost Recon 2 game and it's pretty nice but i got killed pretty quick and had to get back to work!

So far, very happy with this acquisition. I did run out and get a 7 port USB hub, as I have a couple external hard drives that I regularly use in addition to a usb keyboard and mouse...

Putting this thing up on a notebook riser elevates the screen to eye level and also puts the lcd readout in good view.

Keyboard backlight is pretty sweet.

So far so good. I promised some pics, but the ones i took were a bit blurry, so I'll follow up on that soon.

This is the best machine I've ever had.

Eager to hear how others are doing...

 

thnx for the info bro.
Ill buy the adpater soon or later

Must buy FPS Games....hmmm...i got tons
Orange Box
Crysis
Unreal Tournament 4
Call of DUty 4
Haze for PS3
Hell Gate London, although i didnt like the demo

 

Crysis, UT4 and CoD4 are demo;s right. none of these games are out.

i hooked up my comp to steam yesterday to purchase orange box 2 as my exchange rate has been running hot vs the Us (AUD$ here). its so cheap compared to the shops, half the price, so i decided i will be purchasing CoD4 over steam too.

 

Ahh I loved the Orange Box! I already beat Portal and Ep2 and both were outstanding! Portal was a bit short however but ... yeh. Definitely replayable... on my M1730 when I get it.

So far, it's been in Boxing Stage for 2 days now! Yes, I'm in the US...

 

By the way (again) I made another wallpaper to match the styling of the new M1730 with the halftone effects, etc.



Download here:
http://docmars.deviantart.com/art/XPS-M1730-68084820

 

mine was in boxing for at least 2 days. I started to check the automated status line on Friday (boxing), and it remained in boxing Monday and part of Tuesday. Mid Tuesday, it shipped, and it was delivered to my doorstep on Wednesday morning via DHL

 

So maybe mine will ship tomorrow if it takes 3 days! Hopefully at least... if it ships tomorrow I get it on Friday! Which is the perfect day because I get that whole night to get it ready and customized to my likings

And testing it, etc.

Ugh, but I have a busy Saturday and Sunday though...

 

Photo 1

More to come

 

Photo 2..........

 

Photo 3 ...........

 

Photo 4 ........

 

Photo 5 ...........

 

Photo 6 ........

 

Photo 7 .........

bought a 7 port USB 2.0 hub. Also, there's the little infrared remote.

 

::Jaw Drops::

OMG, you are so lucky zergworld, no fair!

I'm totally envious and wishing that my XPS was here already so I could post some pics of it too. I dunno what people were whining about, but that thing looked sexy... I need to go clean myself now...

Keep them coming, and post some benchies/screenies or a vid or two!

 

omg the waiting is killing me, im expecting mine to be delivered in the next 2 hours with the exact same specs and colour as zergworld

 

I got 3 year warranty and 3 year accidental damage cover

I've also been told mine will be delivered today... that's 1 day shipping

 

screenie of the vista filesystem on the 1730. Notice the RAID 0 config shows as a single logical drive. The SSD shown is sitting in the expresscard slot, presently used for storing portable docs and such.

Not sure what the recovery drive is for, but perhaps for vista system restore points?

 

vista desktop on the XPS showing default background.

I addd the multimeter gadget that displays the state of each core and mem usage.

 

Here's the full size picture (1920x1200)

 

Hey guys I'm stuck with something.

I have been trying to install the updated drivers on my 1730 and I keep getting the message "cannot find any compatible hardware".

The problem is I cannot even install the old driver back! Now I am on a graphic driverless system. Can someone please help!!!

 

Wow that is so cool. Thank you for making me drool zergworld. Are you also from the US? I havn't heard anybody from Europe here at all! So I really don't know if I'll get the LG or the Sharp... (SAMSUNG IS NOT AN OPTION! )

 

I think mine just went into boxing stage! Can't be true that it will first make it to my door the 15th Nov. Should be any day now!

 

Make sure you uninstall / delete the current vista default driver again, unpack your nvidia drivers into a directory and when it detects specify the driver yourself immediately.

I had a similar problem a while ago with my 8800GTX and this sorted it out.

Hope it works for you mate.

 

task manager.

Without any open (windowed) applications and with the following trayed items

1. Bayden Slick run (command line app launcher)
2. Microsoft Office One Note
3. Trillian
4. EditPadLite

memory usage is already 1.19GB

I was happy to see that 3.26 (out of 4) GB of physical memory was visible to the OS. I also have 3.25 visible on my vista 1710 with 4GB installed (which has 256mb vid mem versus the 512 here)

After closing all trayed apps, leaving just the system icons, it went down to 1.17, so xps/dell config on vista is a memory hog.

I didn't see too many services to shut down either. Maybe others know of some unecessary services. By the way, google desktop search and toolbar came pre-installed, but there wasn't much of any other cruft... perhaps they just didn't have time to install all that crapware...

On another note, I just ran Auslogics defrag tool, and while it was running, I started wondering if it is appropriate to defrag against a RAID 0 (striped disks). I did some research, and the general outlook is that the OS views this as a single logical disk and the raid controller does what it does. So, defrag doesn't hurt and furthermore defrag still helps in terms of performance overall.

 

Thanks HardTimesUK,

Unfortunately this didn't work. It's one of those things you've done a million times but when it doesn't work your screwed.

 

All fixed. Went to the Dell site and downloaded the 156.61 driver.

 

My m1730 has just been shipped. Went from pre-production to delivery in 24 hrs!!

 

Glad to hear you sorted it mate!

 

Congrats sva988! Hope you have endless enjoyment with your baby.

 

hey, just wondering if anyone could offer a hand, just got my m1730 about 30 mins ago and have set it up, everything is working perfectly and i love the design, just one thing, i ordered the logitech MX revolution laser cordless mouse and have just charged it and am wondering how i can connect it to my laptop, it didnt seem it came with many software i think, and i just installed a game and it told me i only have 250mb of graphic memory and i have allready enabled SLi, anyhelp would be appreciate thanx.

 

thanks for the picks zergword it looks stunning cant wait and congrats sava givs me hope mine is still in pre production nearly 4weeks now i hope mine goes the same way has anyone recived one with blu-ray drive

 

are you still in pre production hardtimes??

 

I hope so too mr. greenfingers. If it's any concolation, it's was built in Ireland, so maybe yours will go into production soon aswell. But i didn't order it with the blu-ray drive. It will be at my doorstep tuesday at the latest! It's Christmas tuesday!

 

No, it shipped yesterday

Was told it would arrive today but it's going to be tomorrow instead... as long as I have it before the weekend that's fine as I'm currently working in Holland!

Travel back to Holland on Monday so I want to take it with me!

 

All I have to say is... Wow.

You are so lucky! Especially with your specifications!
Congratulations! That's gonna be awesome!

Me:

Order Date: October 6
ESD: October 29
Current Stage: Boxing (this is the 3rd day)