Post when XPS M1330 ordered and when/if shipped

I don't think anyone on this forum (from the United States) has their m1330 in shipping yet.

 

How does that make any sense? Won't the second system have the same delays as the first system if that was the case?!?!

CSR's can infuriate me!

 

Did they mention why your 2nd order is still in pre-production?

 

No. That's the thing. I kept asking why it has been in pre-production for 18 days and she said that I should just keep waiting, as they have started shipping m1330's just recently.

But now I wonder if most people in the US who ordered in that last week of June who are currently in the build phase are all on manufacturers holds for the shell and the fingerprint reader.

 

You made the right decision ... and kept both orders. Good job!

Now we'll see what the Dell Blog has to say (hopefully today or tomorrow).

 

only 19 more pages to fill on this thread to reach the 200 page count...

for those who ordered early this week, has your order status changed to something other than build?

 

not yet for me even though i ordered last week i had to change the lcd display to the one i asked for

 

i wonder if any dell reps have even seen this thread.
If i didn't have this to keep me busy while i waited i think i would go crazy.

For some reason... no matter how many times i call the status line, my status will not change from build stage.
I'm going to call again.. (i'm pretty sure it helps )

 

It's Saturday 21st for me (I'm in Japan). I ordered 3rd July, but don't have a EDD. Thought of cancelling today until I read your post.

 

Your ship date is on August 14th? Mine is way out in September 6th. I bet our orders will show signs of life on Monday or Tuesday.

 

Obviously I'm a newbie here - i forgot to quote Sesshomaru's original message about time zones

 

How come you dont have an EDD

 

PHP:

while(m1330recieved == 0) {
     shipped = dialDellOrderStatus("18004339014", "75334433");
     if(shipped && checkDoorStep()) {
          m1330recieved = 1;
     }
     else {
          postMessage("Building Stage!!!!!");
          cry();
          sleep(1000);
     }
}
postMessage("Woot Woot Woot I got it!!!");
peePants();
sleep(1000000);          


 

LOL... Unfortunately I don't think that will run... I think you have to define the peePants function

 

ikkonikko, i ordered mine in japan the same day as you. what production stage are you in? and what are you doing up at 2 am?

 

Non Functional Demo models of the XPS m1330 just arrived at US dell direct stores today if you guys want to check it out.

 

I ordered through a third party, and the best they could do was forward me a PDF status update from Dell showing which stage the computer was in (no EDD). They have a customer ID to check the status - I don't, unfortunately.

 

HAHAHAHAHAHA..... i like the peepants and cry function calls. Might wanna bump up that sleep amount tho!

 

Keep one, sell the other on eBay, i`ll buy it and cancel my order!

 

Fine fine

PHP:

#include<"bugDell.h">
#include<"bodlyFunctions.h">

// Version 2
while(m1330recieved == 0) {
     shipped = dialDellOrderStatus("18004339014", "75334433");
     if(shipped && checkDoorStep()) {
          m1330recieved = 1;
     }
     else {
          postMessage("Building Stage!!!!!");
          cry();
          emailDellSupport("Where is my system? I'm a l33t hax0r and will crash you bases!");
          cry();
          sleep(10000);
     }
}
postMessage("Woot Woot Woot I got it!!!");
peePants();
sleep(10000000);  

 

This thread is an anomaly.

I leave for 2 hours to do "productive" things and I have to spend the next 45minutes catching up!

 

Can't say actually (see post above), after reading the posts on Direct2Dell I was ready to cancel today, it's a lot more pessimistic over there. I'm up at 2am recovering from lugging a 3.2kg laptop round Tokyo today wishing my m1330 had come two weeks ago like it should have done!

 

haha I know the feeling

 

No point really in having the m1330received variable. I'd just do

PHP:

for(;;) {
     shipped = dialDellOrderStatus("18004339014", "75334433");
     if(shipped && checkDoorStep()) {
          break;
     }
     else {
          postMessage("Building Stage!!!!!");
          cry();
          sleep(1000);
     }
}
postMessage("Woot Woot Woot I got it!!!");
peePants();
sleep(1000000);          


 

i feel your pain...im leaving tokyo to go back to school in cali on monday, and theres no way itll be here by then. im going to have to have my parents send it to me now. blah...

 

Cheater...

 

Using infinite loops and break statements is usually considered poor form, due to decreased readability.

 

That is rough.

I have to hit the sack - my eyes are getting screen burn...

Hope it works out ok for you.

 

Not according to the computer science professors at the University of Waterloo, one of the top computer science universities on the continent.

 

hahaha... he was just trying to optimize the code... maybe for faster delivery time of our laptops... i'm going to compile it right now!

 

i had a teacher that hated break statements and multiple returns.... would get marked off for having them....

 

when i was in school we were not allowed to use break or multiple returns either,
in the beginning classes using those = automatic fail.

 

QFT.

Hehehe...

 

I had a few teachers like that in the first couple semesters of college (I goto Algonquin in Ottawa Canada). Now I have some that encourage obfuscated code because your less likely to be replaced in your job if your the only one who knows how it works.

 

Agreed, break statements are generally not a good thing to have. It helps leads to bugs and makes it harder to track what's going on. It does not matter what University a prof is from, it does not make them right.

For example, I might have more cleanup code at the bottom of the while loop or more work that needs to be done before the loop exits.

That will not get done if someone sticks a break in a condition at the top of the loop. And can lead to hard to track down bugs.

What the hell! If a professor ever tells you to obfuscate your code you need a new professor. If you work hard, make good maintable code, you will have a better chance of being kept around for the right reasons.

 

Wow.... um.... maybe we should get back on topic.

 

This thread has a topic? Come on now

 

hahahaha.. agreed.......... the stated topic makes me cry

 

thats great it should say or get changed to soon to be owners lounge

 

Oh hell no I do not want the owners lounge to start with 62 pages of complaining about shipping dates!

When we all get one maybe start a fresh one, or take over the one already out there.

 

Maybe the delay is cos all the big companies are buying these to sell on?
Maybe cos they have such large orders they are priority and that might also explain the shortage of parts and why some are in pre production for so long and why some are in build for weeks?
Well thats my hypothesis!
Any thoughts?

 

Well, basically, you don't use breaks and multiple returns anywhere you like but they can be good when used correctly. In a simple loop where you've only got a case statement, a break is appropriate, IMO. It is, however, recommended that you outdent the break statement, which I hate doing because I use tabs, not spaces. lol

 

??? Boxing to shipping usually takes 1 business day. And there are lots of people on the boxing stage here. My take is that by Monday, all the late June/early July orders would have shipped.

 

Yea maybe for USA but for us Brits, i ordered 3rd July, no hope of that coming untill at least august cos the glass for the screen apparently wont arrive in their warhouse untill 27th July!!(Then they have to manufacture the screens before they assemble the laptops!- I am really thinking of going eBay.. but do they have theirs in stock.. surely they must be waiting too?

 

i hope so! Does anybody know if they operate on the weekends to ship the laptops to northamerica as well as do their testing and stuff on the weekend?

With such a large company i don't see how they couldn't....

just wondering :/

 

I'm tired of hearing my order being in the BUILD stage... :-(....

 

If i were working there, id take the overtime for the weekend! Dunno about them though, theyre probably doing extra hours as it is, we hope!!

 

8 pages in a few hours...holy cow. So what did I miss, any new Boxing or Testing stages?

 

They ship the laptops (from Malaysia) from Mon -> Saturdays. I also hear the factories are 24x7.

 

Nope. You missed nothing!