Delay for XPS 17

Hi guys, I placed an order for XPS 17 on 11/26/2010 and the estimated delivery day was 12/16/2010 which is reasonable, but today, it updated to 01/20/2011 and this is absolutly not acceptable.

I am wondering if 2 month time for an order to be delivered is normal or no t.

Any help would be very apperaciated!

 

Where are you & what spec did you order?

 

hoping mine isnt delayed, ordered on the 6th of december, EDD 23 of december >.>
id be gutted if it is, since i had one practically at my door step, but canceled the order to re-order with a blu-ray drive

 

If you build one from Dells website the base configuration EDD is 12/22. The 640GB hard drive changes it to 12/27 and the GT 445M changes it to 1/18. I ordered with both on 11/26 and my original edd was 12/15 and it just changed to 1/21. Might cancel and get Asus, i dunno.

 

I ordered on the 6th of December too. EDD of 28th of December, even though I chose delivery before Christmas.

Got the i7 740QM, 4GB RAM, 500GB Hard Drive, 445M GT, and BR-ROM.

As of this morning it is "In Production" is this a good sign?

EDIT: I'm in Ireland by the way, I think my order is being built here.

 

most defo, that stage only lasts for 1-2 days, then it gets shipped where are u located?

edit: mines still on "work in progress"

 

Must have quoted as soon as u edited
im in london, my last one was shipped all the way from china!
darn, why did i have to cancel lol, i hope my EDD doesnt change

 

Well your better off getting the laptop you want, instead of sacrificing the Bluray player for the sake of a few weeks.

 

yeah im glad i canceled and re-ordered with blu-ray drive but if my EDD gets extended i'll be mad
i also used a 10% discount voucher (the 2nd time) which brought the price down by £2 from the original £854 without the blu-ray drive haha, so i cant complain i guess

 

Ha, I used a 5% voucher when I ordered mine, brought be down to €1045 from €1100. I pretty much ordered the Bluray drive so I don't regret it at a later date.

Yesterday I just ordered another 500GB hard drive and 4GB of RAM, at about 1/4 of the cost dell were asking for

 

i know, dell ram upgrades are totally insane.
it was £330 extra for FOUR extra gigs of memory, when i can get that for around £65 lol

im also lookin to get an extra 4gb and possibly an SSD, but those are quite expensive.

 

The Desktop I had, which I sold to fund this XPS purchase, had a 60GB OCZ Vertex II SSD, while it was crazy fast, it was just too small for the price.

I'd say wait until you can get a 128GB or 256GB for £100 or less.

 

yeah ill just wait a couple months for now coz i dont really *need* an SSD but it would be a nice upgrade

 

Also, was the backlit keyboard an option for you? Or does it come by default in the EU versions?

 

There was no option for it. And I read on this site somewhere that the keyboard we get is a normal one with no back lighting. No idea why they dont offer it here :S

If you really want one I guess you can wait until people start selling them n change it yourself

Stupid of dell not to offer it huh

 

I am in the US and I chose the follow specs

1 317-5613 Intel Core i7-740QM 1.73GHz / up to SC 2.93GHz / 6M
1 317-5610 8GB,DDR3,2 DIMM
1 331-0645 Standard Keyboard - English (Internal)
1 318-0186 NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M 3GB graphics with Optimus
1 342-1854 640GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive
1 420-9100 Dell Dock Consumer
1 421-3932 Dell Webcam Software 2.0 with Kit
1 318-0184 Anodized Aluminum WLAN L701X
1 318-0189 17.3 in HD+ WLED TL (1600x900)
1 421-1737 Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English
1 331-0646 Resource DVD L701X
1 421-0757 Skype VOIP Application
1 420-9691 DataSafe Local BackUp
1 330-6222 Windows 7 Label
1 420-6436 PC-Restore, Dim/Insp

 

So it's not just me... And are you suggesting that the graphic card was the reason for the delay?

 

mine has been "in production" for two weeks now

this is dell.ca though

 

Yeah I guess it depends on your location, where the laptops being built etc. The 1st one I ordered was in production for only a day then it was shipped.
Can't wait till mine arrives o: lol

 

same as me... except that mine wasn't shipped yet...
got the i7 740qm, gt 445m, 640g HDD, nothing special..

Location is germany

Hope the EDD is wrong <.< would suck...

 

I think they try and cover themselves with the EDD, but I'll be pretty pissed if I don't get it before the 23rd, like I was guaranteed when I ordered.