M1330 LED screen no longer available in Canada?

Since Thursday or so of last week the LED option on the M1330 in Canada was pulled. I spoke with the sales rep I dealt with previously as I need to reorder my M1330 system. He put me on hold for a bit to speak with some of the marketing people and when he came back he said it will not be available in Canada anymore.

Is this for real? I'm hoping there's just a shortage.... I don't think I will get the M1330 anymore if I can't get the LED screen. Grrrr.... I wanted to reorder my M1330 in Pearl and without the 8400 GS. Abosolute pain in the ass.

 

Don't let the lack of an LED screen stop you from re-ordering. There's nothing wrong with the CCFL screen.

 

there's nothing wrong with it, except it is 33 percent more dimmer, raises highest height of the note book to 1.43 inch, raises weight to 4.4LBs and has 2 megapixel camera which is actually worse then VGA camera for live video chatting due to framerates. Oh, and it worsens your battery life just a little bit. But it is also what, 300 dollar cheaper?

 

Buy from USA and take it to Canada!

 

LED screen makes ur screen flimsy
stick with CCFL

 

Yeah.... Its a bit more of a head-ache, but you will save ATLEAST $400 buy shopping through dell.com after applying coupons.

Rent a P.O box near a boarder city for a month, mail it to that, when it arrives re-ship it from there to your home as a gift... voila!

Personally, i'm not going to buy anything from dell until they adjust their prices on dell.ca. I'm getting sick of this 'idiot tax' they have(10-30% more just from shopping at dell.ca, as opposed to dell.com) Considering the stuff is made in china, and shipped from america, there really is no excuse to charge $500 more for the M2300 if its being shipping to Winnipeg, MB as opposed to Fargo, ND.

 

Statistics should always be taken with a grain of salt. I have yet to wish my m1330 with CCFL would go BRIGHTER.

Oh my! A couple extra millimeters! What will one ever do with such a thick laptop!!!

The only time you'll notice the weight difference is if you put it on a scale.

Perhaps you have a bad camera.

Exactly....."just a little bit".

 

WELL SAID!!!

 

Hey all, i recently ordered a M1330 in the UK with the led. Dell called me a few days ago to say that they had some sort of issue with the supply of screens and my order would be delayed for a few days???? Not sure if that means anything at all to this discussion?

 

Would you not then lose all your warranty coverage while in Canada??

 

Yes you will...the buy in the US scheme has been tackled over and over again. Dell has enough measures in place to stop this, the most obvious being no warranty coverage.

You cant ship it back for repair because they wont ship across the border at all.

With respect to LED/CCFL...you had to have had both to understand the difference side by side. CCFL is yellow tint whereas LED is not. Its not obvious until you have compared the two. Having said that, LED is by far superior to LED. Its also thinner and has better battery life.

As for it not being available on the website, don't buy it off the website. Call Dell directly. I wil pm you some information. Talk to the person I have forwarded to you and see what his advise is.

 

Ahaaaah I found it! A slip up!

 

As an aside, the LED lcd was a $150 upgrade in Canada. Dell is making tons of $$ off people from the US to upgrade the screen to LED.

 

This is wrong; this is bad advise.

 

I agree, bad advice. The LED screens are not flimsy. Just because you saw someone bend one on a review video (and it still worked) doesn't mean that's what happens under normal use. The LED screen is very tough and looks great. I'm glad I spent the extra $$$ on it

 

I was in the process of buying on-line, saw the LED was no longer an option, and reconsidered as well. The LED was one of the primary reasons I was considering the 1330. If it was a technical problem I could understand but it doesn't sound like it.

I guess the question is whether the 1330 is still worth it w/o the LED. I'm just frustrated now that my consumer options have been limited and Dell will not give any explanation. I guess Canadian's should be use to this by now. Oh well, it is only a computer, but I will probably voice my opinion on the matter with my pocket book.

 

The LED (I have TMD) is the best screen I've seen on laptops.

 

This is bad spelling/grammar.

It's "advice".

 

I called Dell about this and they said you just needed to transfer the warranty over. There was some kind of form to fill out, that's it.

At least that's what the CSR told me.

 

I am a dell DSCE, and our shop is the regional repair center for dell in the yukon, a corporate sales rep told me he is getting mixed signals from his higher ups about the m1330 with led screen:

"The led display in canada is not going to be offered as an option indefinately..." were his words.

-apperantly there is some sort of environmental issue with the led screen he has been told, and it is not legal to be sold here for the time being.

-also has been told there is an extreme demand for the m1330 right now, and that dell can fill more orders more quickly and keep people happy because the units are ready to go and sitting around with the standard screen (and hence make more profit)

-the led display is back ordered and there are some problems with it causing the need for replacement units an too high of a percentage of units, which I am surprised to have not heard about already.

-also he was told that the led display is more profitable in the US, and therefore due to the high demand, led screens are being diverted there first, Canada second, and since its backordered...canada gets squat for the time being.

He also told me he thinks its all a bunch of BS except for the last statement, its simply the fact that dell can make more money by selling them in the states..so canada gets the shaft.

Guess his corporate higher ups forgot to check the dollar exchange rates these days.

Ah well, maybe they'll have em in january, but he told me NOT to expect Canadian LED screens anytime soon, what a joke.

 

That's not good!

 

thanks for the insight brunediddy. environmental reasons - good one dell canada. you guys really care. cause there certainly aren't any fed or prov regs that would limit this.

 

yea i seen the same video ur talkin about
it looked flimsy

 

Well, after my initial post.... our rep called me back and managed to get me one, i just ordered it last night...black with led screen, fingerprint, 8400, bluetooth, 6 and 9 cell battery...the works, he says it should be shipped to our shop on the 6th of december, so we shall see.

1600 shipped, tax included.

If anyone out there would like one with an led screen send me a PM and ill see what I can do for you guys, but youd probably have to pay whatever he asked for it, there aren't many left at the moment.

I bought the base model, then ordered a 7k200, t7700, and 4 gigs of ram and intel 4965 wireless from our other suppliers for dirt cheap, ill install it all myself then sell the stock parts on ebay... its gonna be pimp when im done with it heh...either way im glad i was lucky enough to get one.

total cost of the laptop is about 2100 with these upgrades, minus whatever i can sell the stock stuff for.

Sucks you cant even get it configured this way in canada from dell, period.

I had to get certified on this laptop though, and i know it can run the 7700 cpu, it says it was designed for it in the spec sheet. I thought about holding out for the t7800, because its the same thermal envelope so would work fine but i figured not worth another 200 bucks for 200 mhz. Thats a buck a mhz, what a rip, and you can't even get it yet. Ill just pop in a penryn when they come out.

I wanted to get the white, but since it is going to be my tech laptop...gonna get bumped around a little, so black will hide the naughty better.

By the way, the 1530 was supposed to be out awhile back, i had to get certified on that laptop too a few months back... apperantly the holdup is the blu ray player, its not meshing with the 1330 either at the moment...be prepared if you were counting on upgrading to blu ray after the fact when it was released on these models...you might be SOL because it will require a newer revision mobo to run it without errors, but that is just the rumblings from our same reps who told me i couldnt get one because of environmental issues