1730 said to be released today (8/27)?

Can't find any mention of the 1730 on the Dell website. Is a new product from Dell typically only ordered by phone on the day of it's release? I'm more curious as to whether the photos are legit. If so, not interested.

 

Due to industry wide shortages of display screens, colored lids, wireless n cards and assembly screws the 1730 will be delayed until October 10th. Then October 31st. Then November 12th....

 

I talked to an XPS rep earlier today, but of course they had no information, but said she would email me when it became available. I want to order my 1720, but waiting for official pics of the 1730.

 

just to confirm, this is replacing the xps m1710, not the inspiron 1720... right?

 

yes that is correct

 

09/21/2007

 

how did you know?

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=161972

 

Today i recieved pictures and technical data on the M1730.

It is looking a lot better than the pictures that has been floating around the net lately. You can get the M1730 in four different colours. Karmosin Red, Saphire Blue, Bone white and Smoke grey.

I dont know how insert a picture. It asks for a http adress?!?
If someone know where i can upload a picture, tell me.

I am going to order the Smoke grey today.

And it has got DUAL M8700GT in SLI. It is an awesome machine with very few competitors on the market.

Cheerio!!

 

You're ordering today a laptop that's not scheduled to be released until end of Sept?

 

Sapphire blue? I'm interested in how that looks, This midnight blue is to "Midnight "for me but considering the 1730 will cost twice as much I'll probably won't get it.

 

Yes thats right! At my work we recieved order forms from Dell today with pictures and tech data on the new 1730 among other new models. I believe XPS 420 is also a new model but maybe i am wrong. Anyway, I was either going to buy the Toshiba Satellite X205 (X200 here in Sweden) or the new Dell M1730. When i saw the pictures on the not yet released M1730 i phoned Dell two seconds later asking them if this was correct. Their reply was: Companies with home PC agreement can order it starting today, private persons have to wait until the last week of September. Shipment is expected to be week 44. That the last week of October.

 

It looks about the same as the 1720 colour, maybe a bit more plastic.

 

Almost makes me want to go out and get a job!

 

I'd be interested in seeing any pics you have if possible just curious on how it looks and the SLI 8700's sound nice, just wonder when the 8800m's will be released.

 

http://photobucket.com/
Make yourself an account there, login, and it will let you upload pictures from your hard drive.

 

Here is the tech spec on the machine i am going to order now.

Ayone heard of "SoundCard Intel HD Audio"?

MODELL: Dell | XPS™ M1730
PROCESSOR: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7700(2,40GHz, 4MB L2 cache, 800MHz FSB)
CHIPSET: Intel® Crestline PM
BILDSKÄRM: 17" UltraSharp™ WUXGA LCD skärm (1920x1200) med TrueLife™
FÄRG OCH KAMERA: Karmosinröd (fyra olika färger att välja mellan) med 2.0 MP Web-kamera & mikrofon
RAM-MINNE: 2048MB DDR2, (667MHz 2x1024MB)
HÅRDDISK: 320GB 7200rpm SATA (2x160GB)
OPTISK ENHET: 8x max DVD+/-RW “dual layer” (inkl. programvara)
GRAFIKKORT: Dual SLI 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8700M GT
LJUDKORT: Intel HD Audio
HÖGTALARE: Interna med integrerad subwoofer, 4W total, Stereo
HÖRLURAR: Bluetooth hörlurar
MODEM: Nej
NÄTVERKSKORT: Integrerat 10/100/1000 Mb Ethernet
TRÅDLÖST NÄTVERK: Intel® Next-Gen Wireless-N
BLUETOOTH: Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth Network Card
OPERATIVSYSTEM: Windows® Vista Home Premium, svenskt, inklusive media
TANGENTBORD: Inbyggt med integrerad pekplatta och numerisk tangentbord
MUS: Extern optisk mus
TV-TUNER: Analog/digital TV-tuner, USB (fjärrkontroll för Tv-tuner samt IR kabel ingår ej)
BATTERI: 9-cell lithium-ion
MED DATORN SAMLEVERERAS:
PROGRAMVARA: Microsoft® Works 8, svenskt
ANTIVIRUSPROGRAM: McAfee Security Center inkl. 3 års live update, svenskt
ÖVRIGA PROGRAM: Tillval
ASSET LABEL: Ja, märkning med telefonnummer till HelpDesk
DOKUMENTATION: Till Inspiron XPS M1730 samt kom-igång-manual
ÅSKSKYDD: Ja
HEMLEVERANS: Ja, ingår (09:00-22:00)
GARANTI: 36 månader på-platsen-service (Inspiron XPS M1730)
TEKNISK SPECIFIKATION:
MÅTT: 50,5 mm (höjd) x 406 mm (bredd) x 302,6 mm (djup)
VIKT: Från 4,8 kg
MAX RAM: 4GB DDR2, (667 MHz)
MINNESPLATSER: 2 st SoDIMM
PORTAR: 4 st USB 2.0
IR sensor (endast mottagning)
1 st DVI med Dual-link stöd
(HDMI och VGA via DVI-adapter)
1 st IEEE1394 (firewire)
1 st RJ45 (ethernet)
Utgång för dubbla hörlurar / mikrofon
1 st S-video
KORTPLATSER: 1 st ExpressCard kortplats (stöder 34mm- och 54mm-kort)
Integrerad 8-i-1 kortläsare
ÖVRIGT: LightFX,belyst tangentbord,Media Direct™, Wi-Fi Catcher™, Hyperband Multi-antenn teknologi

 

found this on the dell website

http://www.dell.com/content/topics/...ts/topics/en/us/inspnnb_1730_teaser?c=us&l=en

 

Well thats great to know guess I'm on the waiting list.

 

Ok, Let´s see if it works

http://s239.photobucket.com/albums/ff149/Registered_2007/

 

Thats intense either red or white for me most likely the red that is so cool. Some guy in the other thread is saying no later than Wednesday at 12am to order though.

 

The blue looks nice, Thanks

 

Holy freakin cow pie, it actually looks good here:

(nice one, Registered)

Anyways, it's probably just the angle of that image, all that tiger smoky grey stripe thing isn't visible. It's just shiny black and stripy red light. I like ^__^

 

Hmm, doesn't look bad at all.

 

Wait a sec...why only 256MB?

Any option for dual 512MB cards?

(And P.S. - Thanks for posting your order details! Still looks like it will be a beast indeed )

 

Nice choice, registered. I'm still not quite sure I like the design, but of all the choices I think Slate Gray is the best looking by far.

 

Is that white or silver in the lower left picture?

 

Well, lower left is called "Bone White" and lower right is called "Smoke Grey"

Dell told me that they could send me some more and better pictures tomorrow.

 

No, there was no option with 512 MB. Hmmm, i think i will give Dell a call tomorrow morning.

Thanks for bringing it up!

 

Live pictures?

Fingers well crossed that some how looks more like



and a lot less like



I'm just finding the first pic really cool, quite futuristic - like it belongs to a transformer or something. The second one looks like it was the result of too many beers.

Not too keen on the other sets of pictures...just the first one (of this post)

 

No problem, Registered...be sure to let us know what you find out.

I could live with dual 256MB cards but would definitely go dual 512MB if available.

Also hafta agree with the general consensus...it look WAY better in these latest pics than what was being floated around the past couple of weeks!

 

I'd be willing to bet it's more like your first picture there where the carbon fiber texture is super faint compared to how it's showing up in the photos. Not nearly as bad as I though it'd be. Late September order / October delivery is a deal killer for me. The longer I have to wait, the closer we get to 8800M's.

Probably just gonna grab a Tosh X205 now and skip waiting 3-4 months on something that may take even longer than expected (which is the rule rather than the exception).

 

Oh no! Don't say that! I'll end up getting stuck in another circle of "I'll wait for the better one to come out".

Won't it be a while before 8800M for notebooks becomes available? At least for Dell anyways, right?

If the details/live pics of the 1730 aren't to my liking I'll probably jump ship back to the 1710 (oh if only I could get the sager 5790 in the uk ). If I do like the 1730, I'll wait for it and continue using my vaio till it's available.

 

So is there a place to order this as a company or small business?

 

In that case I like the "Smoke Grey" the best.
Does the 1730 weigh much more than the M1710?

 

I believe it does.

 

why pay 200 extra dollars for an upgrade you wont use, the more important part is the two GPU's 512 mem is more than enough, 1GB is overkill and a waste of money

 

Why would they use 2 256MB is there a performance gain using 2x256MB in SLi over just using one 512MB? I mean maybe there is but I can't see there being anything major at all if anything. I think thats just a waste might as well put 2x512MB, maybe heat consumption was an issue.

 

wow they look nice.. imo the blue or grey are the nicest

 

The first one looks computer generated. But the second one looks more like a sample that shouldn't be taken too seriosly. just to give engineers an idea.

 

It's not just two sets of memory, it's two graphic processors as well. It's all just contained on one physical card so that there's only one interface between the two graphics units and the motherboard. This will leave open another MXM slot for the physics card.

What would really be sweet is if you could ditch the physics card and drop in another card with 2x 8700 GPU's and memory on it and SLI the two double cards together for a grand total of quad 8700M GTs each with 256MB DDR3. The heat would be ginormous and there'd have to be some sort of super SLI support on the motherboard to use two sets of two together.

 

i seem to recall the first pics of the m1330 to look kinda computer generated.

 

the grey one looks the best IMO, i am pretty sure they will look a lot better in person,

but from what i have seen so far is that its a lot thicker than the 1720 and much heavier... now i don't like that

 

So I'm guessing that improves power, what I'm confused on is why not put two 512 on one slot? Would it not fit or something like why gimp the PC is such a way?

 

Ya, the first one is CG. I was just hoping that the live pics would look more like that.

I hope so. Like the 1710, users have said it looks better in person (it looks ugly on dell's site). Live pics from users of the 1710 showing it at new angles - it looks really good.

 

From a GPU memory perspective, I think 1024MB's (dual 512MB) would definitely be used to the max in a lot of games at high-resolution with all the eye-candy turned on.

I'm wondering if offering only dual 256MB is an attempt by Dell to simplify driver issues down the road. Given that this not the standard SLI setup with two cards in two slots, perhaps it's an attempt to make it look like a mega-overclocked single 8700 card with 512MB as far as the driver is concerned.

I've seen many complaints from the Alienware M9750 owners due to the lack of driver support since it uses a similar proprietary SLI setup of dual 7950's in a single slot (and these are dual 512MB cards).

 

ive just gotten off the phone and the man told me its out on friday. i have already pre ordered it. just ring them up.

ps im from uk.

 

I'm in the UK too, what spec and how much???

 

SLI doesn't combine total GPU RAM......effectively you still only have 256mb or VRAM to use, granted the pixels get pushed faster but w/ a wuxga screen I could easily see 256mb cards being week.

 

looks pretty neat...