Post when XPS M1330 ordered and when/if shipped

I have always built my own systems and the M1330 will be my first Dell, and my first laptop

 

Ordered 7/1 Estimate Ship Date 8/17

T7300, 1GB of Ram (ordering more on newegg for cheaper ), LED screen, Tuxedo Black, Fingerprint reader, bluetooth, 120GB HD, 45 Day shipping (nice added feature), 8400M GS, 6/9 cell battery, 3 year warranty with accidental damage coverage, other stuff.

= $1,785.59 with tax and shipping.

 

I ordered the same day (got the same est. shipping date) and almost the same config (I got 2 GB of RAM).

 

So I talked to Dell over the phone today for about 20 minutes and got my order "expedited" to next day shipping...nothing too extrordinary.

What caught me off-guard was the fact that the represenative confirmed that my order was now delayed due to the processor I chose (T7300). I'm taking this with a grain of salt... but also hoping that this means they've caught up on LED screens and will start building soon.

Just figured I'd share the news and see if anyone else has heard anything from their own personal order delay reasons.

 

To be honest I think the Dell sales staff just say whatever the hell they want. How can they be short on processors, that's just stupid. Like I said before one sales rep said my laptop bag was held up due to a shortage of cameras!.

Although, I guess there is a slim possibility. Because it seems like everyone and their cat ordered the 2GHz 4MB processor. Except for me anyway. Because the 1.8Ghz processor is not worth the extra money for 300Mhz, and the top of the line is too expensive. So it's either the 1.5 or the 2.

 

I know what you mean Code! Hopefully Dell handles all departments of computers differently (XPS, Inspiron, Latitude) and have to keep up stock in each department!

I think I may just be making things up to keep my enthusiasm though!

 

Order Date: 6/29/07.
Est. Ship Date: 8/3/07

I guess compared to some other dates listed I'm moderately happy with the expected ship date!

 

I was just searching engadget for another thread, and I found this story:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/dells-m1330-up-for-retail-july-10/

Back when I first read that I assumed "insider" was wrong, but maybe he did know something after all. Seeing as some users in China and UK are starting to see progress maybe the 10th is the date when they start moving units out. That would be awesome.

Also guys to put things in perspective, I ordered my system on June 28th and it has only been 6 business days since then. I was shocked because it seems like I have been waiting for weeks.

 

Ha yea, I know what you mean. My order was placed June 28th and it feels like it has already been a month. That's what checking order status so many times per day does. My expected shipment date isnt until 8/23.

 

Order date 7/8, ship date 8/28. I would really like to have this by mid august however, I do regret not ordering earlier, but in retrospect I didn't really wait all that long to order (1.5 weeks from release?), but the shipping estimates jumping most likely because of the Drake deal made me pull the trigger so I could hopefully get it by mid August.

The long ship date gives me a chance to look at other models coming out however, so I'll be looking closely at Asus, HP, and Lenovo over the next month or so to see what new models become available and may end up cancelling the order.

 

Ordered 3rd July, due 20th July (UK)

Spec: T7300, 2GB RAM, LED Screen, Crimson Red, 200GB HDD, NextGen Wireless.

Next 2 weeks are going to drag!

 

howcome UK recieve their lappie so early , i have to wait till aug 27 in Canada omg

 

The 10th is tomorrow Code...

I'd like to thank you for pointing that out. I wonder how slowly today will pass for me?

 

yahoooo! only ten more days to go

 

mines been set back 2 weeks now to 23rd of June..was supposed to be this week..

 

Ordered 6/28/07
Estimated Ship Date @ Time of Order 7/22/2007
Estimated Ship Date as of Today 8/22/2007

Complained to Dell and they upgraded me to next day shipping free of charge

 

why people are choosing the 1.8GHz processor, i'll never understand.

 

UK ordered on 09/07/2007
Estimated Delivery: 30/07/2007

• XPS M1330 CORE 2 DUO T7500 2.20GHz
• Crimson Red & 0.3 mega pixel Camera for White-LED Display
• 13.3" WXGA (1280x800) White-LED Display with TrueLife
• Vista Ultimate (32Bit OS)
• Memory Dual-Channel 2048MB (2x1024) 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM
• Hard Drive 120GB Serial ATA (5400 RPM)
• NVIDIA® GeForce Go 8400M GS (128MB GDDR3)
• Primary 6-cell 56WHr Li-Ion Battery
• Biometric Fingerprint Reader
• 8xDVD+/-RW Slim Slot-Load Drive, including SW
• Intel® Next-Gen Wireless-N Mini-PCI Card
• Dell TrueMobile 355 internal Bluetooth Module
• Uk/Irish Internal Lightweight Keyboard (QWERTY)
• English/Irish Ship Accessories - Power Cord
• AC Adapter (65W)
• Software Drivers XPS M1330
• English Documentation XPS M1330
• Resource DVD XPS M1330 - (Diagnostics & Drivers)
• English Microsoft Works 8.0 (Word Processor, Database) with Recovery CD
• Dell Support 3.4. - Vista Only
• English Adobe Reader 7.0.8
• UK Internet Service Provider (Orange & Tiscali)
• English McAfee Security Centre 8.0 - 30 Day Trial Version
• Base Warranty - 1 Year XPS Premium Hardware Support (incl. Gaming and On-Site Support)
• No Accidental Damage Support

Order Status:

09/07/07 - Pre-Production

 

try 6 weeks

 

Who for? Him or you? My M1330 is on exactly the same schedule. My Dell sales rep says it is in production although the Order Status still says pre-production.

John

 

my order is in 6 weeks

 

just got an email

"Dear _____,

This is in regards to your order status enquiry handled by me. I see from our records that your order is back orderd and is still in pre production stage.

Not to worry, I suggest you speak with Sales Department as they would be the best people to assist you with this issue. You can call them at 1-800-456-3355 between 7AM to 11 PM CST Monday to Saturday.

Please email me if you have any concern.

Thank you again for choosing Dell. Have a wonderful day.

Regards,
Pooja Saran,
ABU Customer Chat
Dell Inc."

sucks....

 

I think Dell has taken the build-to-order concept a tad too serious.

The new process is that Dell probably procures the internal parts from manufacturers after a customer orders, builds and then ships to streamline the process.

 

PS. I am not sure if this helps but Dell cannot provide Dell Care service in Florida. If someone living in Florida (or has a friend/family member living in Florida) was interested in the 12% Dell Care discount, they could select Dell Care and Dell will later back out the cost of Dell Care. This happened with my order.

 

I wouldn't completely trust what you hear, but I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case either.

 

What's wrong with the 1.8GHz processor?

 

Prolly too slow for his tastes

 

The biggest advantage of moving up from the T7100 (1.8GHz) to the T7300 (2.0GHz) is the increase in cache size from 2MB to 4MB, which could make a big difference depending on the types of applications you run.

 

If I'm not playing games (minus online games) am I good with the 1.8GHz?

 

Light usage (like word processing, online games, online surfing) should be fine.

 

I hope so. Now I'm starting to regret some of my options, but I've heard what a nightmare it is to change your order.

 

I know it seems like 1.5Ghz if fine if processor power is not a big deal, and 2.0Ghz is fine if you want a good performer. But 1.8Ghz hardly seems worth the extra $80.

The only advantage to the 1.8Ghz is that it allows for hardware virtualization. But I have yet to see that put to use by any software like Parallels or VMWare. Atleast I have not seen any benchmarks, that would be interesting though.

 

Once you step out of line (i.e. change your order), you hafta go to the back of the line.... and it sucks if you were @ the front cause thats about a month or two added.

 

Do you all really think that the 1.8 will make that little of a difference? I wouldn't mind waiting a few more days if the change will either save me money or make the computer faster.

 

What's your estimated shipping date?

 

It will not make much difference, but it not like a vital error that you got it or anything. I was considering jumping to the 2Ghz model myself, but I am one of the first in line too so I do not want to loose my spot.

You will not see a huge difference if you downgrade to 1.5Ghz, or upgrade to 2Ghz. The 1.8Ghz is still a great chip, just probably not quite worth $75 more than the 1.5Ghz. But it's not worth loosing your spot in line for like $25.

 

cpu is upgradable in this laptop, you can always upgrade later on

 

if you fancy voiding your warranty yeah

 

That's what I am thinking of doing too. I got the 1.5Ghz now. If it really is a dog (which I am sure it will not be) I might get a quad core chip, or grab a 2.4Ghz for like $100 later on in a year or two. (when my warranty is nearly over )

 

I went with the 2.2 only because the 2.4 would have cost me £175 more...

But i only paid £1170 for my spec which is great for the UK

 

Would the socket types even be compatible? Quad core on a laptop sounds... insane. I think by then, I would invest that money into a new laptop.

 

I chose the 1.8ghz processor because it was one of the cheapest processors I could get at my budget.
I wanted mine with the 3 year warranty, so I ended up choosing the 1.8ghz over the 2.0ghz.

To me, the extra cache wouldn't make a huge difference as compared to the Core 2 Duo upgrade ( After all, I am upgrading from my current Celeron D ). And it was a fairly better processor compared to the 1.5ghz, which only had 667 FSB.

And as for gaming, the processor upgrade would not make a significant amount of difference as the only bottleneck for gaming is the GPU.
Furthermore, I already made the purchase, if I were to make a change in my order, I'd get shot all the way to the back of the line.

 

oooh I forgot about the FSB. Ok that's not a mistake at all then. That will make a bigger boost than just the 300Mhz would. Still not a huge difference seeing as the memory is still clocked at 667, but it is a nice upgrade.

@xatuuatx: Keep the 1.8Ghz. The 800Mhz buss and the 300Mhz combined make it a better buy than I first though.

 

Now that I am thinking about it, is there a place where you guys go over how you benchmark your laptops during reviews?

I would love to run the exact same benchmarks on my lower spec'd M1330 and compare the results to other peoples machines.

I saw in the first look review which benchmarks you chose, but it would be great to see what settings were used for the benchmarks and any other steps you take.

 

We need to get the m1330's first though... ;-)

 

Order Date: 07/02/2007
Order Status: In Production
Shipping Method: DHL
Est. Ship Date: not given
Est. Delivery Date: 07/20/2007

 

Don't knock on 667mhz memory. After all, the cpu fsb is quad-pumped which makes it really a 200mhz fsb and memory is actually 333mhz, so in reality is more than sufficient. I mean, you don't see any regular desktop C2D running with 1066mhz memory, do you? In fact, even desktops default memory speed at 667mhz or 800mhz. And when 1333fsb C2Ds hit the market, I bet you won't find 1333mhz memory in 99% oem computers with those cpus.

The bottomline is that 667mhz memory is fast enough for 800fsb cpus. What matters, though, is the latency that memory is running at, and that affects performance much more than additional 133mhz

 

This wait feels like every day my parents tell me that tommorrow is christmas.. then when I wake up.. They go SIKE

and I cry myself back to sleep

 

I was not dogging the memory. I was just pointing out that the system bus is mostly used for moving data to and from system memory. So if you bus speed is set to 800Mhz and your Ram is 667Mhz you probably are not going to see much of a speed improvement with the faster bus? But I am not sure that's why I want to bench mark.

And by the way my desktop is CPU is running at 2.84Ghz, and my RAM is clocked at over 900Mhz. But I have the option to stick a huge heatsink on my desktop system.

FYI: I found the review guide with benchmarking guidelines. Yay for search!

http://www.notebookreview.com/writeReview/

 

That's why I said - "regular PC", meaning OEM ones which, with rare exceptions, are NOT oc'ed. Since you can't oc a Dell Laptop, oc'ing is NOT part of this discussion.

Also, in case if you didn't know, bandwidth is not really a problem with C2Ds. Jumping from 677mhz CL3 memory to CL5 900mhz might hamper the performance rather than to improve it. Of course, there are many variables, but as a rule, higher-clocked memory with slower timings does not improve performance on C2Ds, especially when you are talking about such a small difference b/n 667 and 800mhz.

CPU's fsb, on the other hand, is important for C2Ds... the higher, always the better.. CPU is not communicating with memory directly, but rather memory controller... So effectively, with higher CPU fsb, you have faster memory controller, which improves the communication with the memory, esp. low-latency memory (subject to strap settings on memory controller, although I'm not sure if that's applicable on mobile platform). So there might be a point to getting a 800fsb CPU with 667 memory 'cause it means cpu is more efficient in communicating with memory AND the rest of the system (graphics, ports, hds, etc).