Post when XPS M1330 ordered and when/if shipped

That is so sad...

 

xps 700 (desktop). it's notorius for bad power button design.

 

if my lappy doesnt ship by august 3rd im cancelling my order, or if i here some information which is true and actually helpful.

 

per chat I just had... the new LED displays are at least 10 days out. nothing is shipping until they get in the factory.

 

This is what happens when Apple makes notebooks in advance for retail stock (MB's use the same diplay) with special access to procs and chipsets from INTC and Dell has to play 2nd fiddle.

Dell used to be in Apple's position...

 

Not true Dell must make 1,000 computers for every Mac made.

Mac's only have a 3% share of the TOTAL personal computer market. If I was going to show prefference to anyone it would'nt be the onse twose order'er.

I agree that Mac may have started production in advance of release but they do not get prefferential treatment.

 

Acording to the online status, im still in pre-production since 3rd July,but i e-mailed and they say its now in Production with a glass shortage
Who do I beleive!??

I might have to change my sig!
YEEEEY , after 24 days something happens!!!!
Hows everyone elses doing? How many deliveries / boxing do we have now?

 

That's a big exagerated Dell does not have a 1000 times bigger market share than Apple. Plus don't forget that if we talk about laptops, Apple has really a nice market share now, especially in the US. And finally, it's not only about market share. Apple computers are expensive, maybe they offer a better price for purchasing their LED screen for instance... Imagine you are a LED manufacturer, Apple come with an order with much much better margins for you, will you go with them or with Dell? I would first provide Apple, then Dell.

 

Who likes the new sig pic?...>>

 

either way, it's pure speculation. Maybe Dell is second, maybe first, maybe Apple and Dell get their LED LCDs from different suppliers. In any case, we don't have any hard facts to know for sure what's going on.

 

it seems everyone in Europe is still in pre-production, if I were you I wouldn't believe them...

 

That's more or less the same anyway: it's blocked. I saw the status of my order in their system: it's written "in production" but also "awaiting manufacture". On the website it's preproduction. So the website is wrong, but the reality is not really much better: the laptop is waiting for parts to go into manufacturing. Same for yours. Same for all 1330.

 

Noo, i`ll have to change my sig again...

 

Well, I was ASSURED by a Dell rep that mine would ship on 31st July, he even confirmed it to me in writing.

New ESD on the website = 6th SEPTEMBER. With no contact. Why.

 

Because they don't have any screens im afraid. Everybody is in the same boat except some who believe what the reps actually tell them lol.

I was told a while back by someone high up in Ireland (and I posted here) that the middle of august would be when the first units shipped for the UK. Having excepted that and ignored all the BS others have been told im very relaxed about the whole thing. If it arrived sooner then hey, fantastic, but im not expecting it anytime soon.

 

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY
A rep called NATRAJ (uk) told me it would ship on Monday.
Again, dunno if i can trust him, but hey its a start!!

On the plus side, the laptop goes by courier on a ferry driect to the isle of man, where i live, so should get it on Tuesday! Yey!!!!

Cant wait,
If mine does arrive on that time, does anyone have any questions they want me to answer with regard to the laptop?
My spec below:

 

When did you order it?

 

@ pieman... I ordered it on the 5th July.

@djrm... Yeah I was expecting a delay to around mid-august but nowhere near the 6th of september. What's really added fuel to the fire is that nobody's called me to tell me why or even to tell me it's been delayed - I had to check the order status page and find out for myself.

 

hey that's great news! since we have the same config maybe I should trust my rep who told I'll be delivered the 10th of August!

 

What's worse is that they took the money out of my account on the 6th July, the day after I ordered it. All £1498.99 of it. And no laptop for 2 months? Ridiculous.

 

I wonder if it's because of your LED screen?

 

I'll bet that is what it is. pieman314 is apparently getting his but it has the CCFL screen (and black casing). gratedraindrop is waiting for one with the LED screen and that is obviously where the biggest supply problem is.

 

Not true im afraid. They dont have either screen, CCFL or LED. Its the glass thats at shortage rather than the actual screen type.

Nobody will be getting an m1330 for a least a couple of weeks me thinks. Dell CS reps are full of...

 

Glass shortage...just like the salt water shortage the world is facing?

 

I've ordered the exact same laptop as pieman314 from Germany but it is still in pre-production, let's hope I'm right...

 

Mine is a replacement for a faulty m1210 and was arranged by Irish tech support the day the M1330 came out.

 

To Cliegal and Tileman

Just wondering if the unit suffers from any high pitched or chirping noises from the motherboard/cpu? (as previous m1210 had this problem...and various other core 2 duo notebooks).

thanks

 

Very nice, you'll probably fall in love with this with the huge increase in performance.

 

Stop waiting for the M1330 and go out and buy a MBP. Thats what I did. Saved me money too.

 

lol, sounds odd but completely true. Its been discussed to death on this forum. Not the first time the industry has suffered from glass shortages either, do some research if your bored.

 

I guess we're just hogging it up for cups and cars and whatnot else. It better be because the computer industry just isn't processing enough glass, otherwise it would make no sense.

 

Reminder - I think there are some new joiners in this thread lately.
There is a poll for numbers of NBR users who have ordered at M1330 at http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=138763&page=7&highlight=M1330+poll
If you haven't voted already then you may want to - it shows 136 ordered so far (though unfortunately doesn't tally how many subsequently cancelled and went with a MBP or alternative)

 

Well I spoke to a lady in production who was very apologetic and told me she'd ring me back in an hour but the delay is on my processor, my screen and my 8400m. I wonder which is putting me back till September though. I'm not going to cancel because like a lot of others on this forum I've come to the conclusion that nothing can compare to this little beauty! But it does mean that I can't do a lot of stuff I had planned to finish before the end of the summer holiday.

 

MBP suck big time!!

 

MBP is too big. MB is too underpowered. Mac flat out doesn't run 90% of what I use.

 

yup eventhough MBP is light for its size its still a hassle to carry around cuz its still a 15.4".

 

Franky, if I wanted a large laptop, I'd get a 17 inch again with an 8800 card.

 

Any deliveries over the last two days?

 

I don't know, but I know I've been moved back into pre-production

 

??? Too bad, that.... What happened to your order, to cause it to move backwards? So are we still stuck at 10 shipped and two delivered?

 

Dell moved it back because they didn't have all the parts for it and they're working on giving me a new delivery date. Apparently, my order was never officially in build and they just corrected that, so that's what I get on the phone.

 

Hey, I know that some of you don't like the fake university orders, but are any University of Florida orders out of pre-production? I ordered from U of F back in June when everyone was flooding Drake and my chance at the U of Michigan m1330 discount package was removed.

 

Hmm.. make that 3 deliveries.. The guy at ReviewPub got his too...

 

Something else I can speculate about...
1) Failed testing - back to rebuild
2) To try and save time it was built (and perhaps even tested) without the (LED?) screen. Passed testing - now back into the queue to get it's own screen.
3) Completed nicely but suddenly the screen was need for someone else and taken off!

 

Yes mine is and it's in the build stage

 

Yep its a glass shortage, although the screens arw made of plastic

I got mine pushed forward cos i was one of the earliest to order 27th June
This got deleted and i had to reorder on thr 3rd July

 

Well, just called and still in pre-production with no days left for shipping.

 

I am guessing there's a shortage of boxes to ship in...

 

Well, it's weird that now I'm in pre-production with today as a shipping date...Wonder what happens tomorrow

 

Hehe like that! No ones going into boxing, cos theres no boxes!