***XPS M1530 Order Status Thread***

You can get a 4200 benchmark to a 5100/5300 with safe overclocking and safe heat levels.

I bought this temp taker thats made to scan your forehead and tell you if you have a fever, im going to use it to take heat levels of my computer at various points. :-D

 

lol...

Hey...anyone who already has the 1530...
Does it get really hot...I mean since it's basically metal.

 

If you google around some reviews you can find some where someone did what I plan on do, use heat sensors to take temp gauges all around the laptop after stressing it. The highest I seen were some high 90s on the bottom of the laptop

 

Hehe...
I've looked at a bunch of reviews...and pictures...and videos...
Yes...I have a problem... :/

 

I ordred mine on 5/22/08

T9300 Proc, 4GB, Vista Ultimate, 160GB HD, DVD, 1900x1200 screen.

Estimated ship date was 6/9. Got it on 5/29!

Woot!

Akash

 

Lucky. I've been waiting for 5 weeks.

 

Hey guys, don't You know what Everest is ?! This software will collect all the temperatures for You - CPU,GPU, HDD, RAM. It also allows You to know everything about You system.

Well, just visit www.laptopvideo2go.com. You'll find there newest modded drivers (it means that they'll work on Dell), many o/c records for 8600M GT.

I'm gonna overclock my XPS from 475/700 to 660/900, which is pretty stable and gives this card a kick. There will also be a Zalman ZM-NC2000 Cooling Pad to chill this lappy.

 

Son of a...
I ordered on the 19th and last I checked im still in build :/

 

@akash1221, how about Your screen ? Any graininess or sth ? I'm getting WUXGA too.

 

I was totally shocked that they shipped it to quick...

No grainy-ness, looks great so far. I didn't remember to check which manufacturer it was though...

 

1900x1200 are only samsungs, i ordered mine with one as well, i hope it looks great, i been a bit worried with all the talk on here as to whether is should have gone with an led over the hi-def, but i hate other people saying whats best and blah blah, i will make my decision when it shows up, if i do not like i will return the laptop and reorder with a led screen.

 

did your shipping status update to let ou know your local station or did u call the 1800 number?

 

5/31/2008 1:11 am Processed at DHL Location. Wilmington, OH

They obviously lied about not being open on saturdays!

I think thats the last stop for the laptop, making it 92 miles away, too far to pick it up tomorrow with the way gas prices are. If I wake up to see it in a facilty 20 minutes away, then well..Im showing up and wanting my laptop, lol.

 

5/31/2008 12:52 am Processed at DHL Location. Wilmington, OH

Mine must have been on the same truck.

 

Where do you live?

 

About 40 miles north of Pittsburgh, PA, and 45 miles east of Youngstown, OH in good ole' Butler, PA.

My local DHL hub thing is in Evans City, PA. I come within 2 miles of it on my way to and from work.

 

Oh thats cool, I live in Navarre OH, a little south of Canton and Football Hall Of Fame.

I'll let you know how my lappy is when I get it a few hours before you

 

Haha, depends on the route. My DHL deliveries always come between 11AM and noon.

 

That is, as long as it arrives at the local hub before like 7am on Monday.

 

I've never had a DHL shipment before and this is my first shipment to this Location, I used to live in a area more rural then where I live now. Im used to packages showing up around 6-8PM. And pizza guys taking over an hour :-D

 

Haha. I live in a very small town. We don't even have mail delivery to the house. If you live in my town, you have to have a PO Box.

I only get my mail once a week..and it pisses the people at the post office off because it all doesnt fit in my box.

 

5/31/2008 4:37 am Depart Facility Wilmington, OH

Its getting closer and closer :-D

 

STILL in build...
I can't take this much more

 

Dont worry Matt, you'll ship out next week.

 

Yeah....and arrive the week after...
I've never been patient...this sucks lol

 

It SHIPPED yesterday. It was supose to on the 21st of may then it got delayed until the 6th of june but it shipped yesterday. Now how long does shipping take to Canada?

 

Mine's held back at a regional DHL hub which is a hour away. and I won't be able to get it till Monday. Damn you DHL.

 

They dont allow pickups at most locations anyways, and the ones that do you cant get it past 12.

Ohwell, we'll be posting our first thoughts on monday though. Atleast we arent delayed or still in build!

 

I forgot to tell y'all, I mirrored my gripe on their forums with some razor-edged comments. So someone in support decided to start making phone calls directly to me advising me of any change in my order's status. Of course, working with a company that has million-dollar contracts helps a lot when one can pull some BIG strings if they get stupid.

Unit's sealed, but will be shipped next day come Monday the 2nd, ETA the next day.

 

Lucky you. You pull strings? Why not give them a good yanking? Then maybe they'll start listening to you and us customers a little more.

 

The yanking I had in mind was to get ahold of the board of trustees. It would take a large amount of time for the request to make it up the chain, but would they listen and understand? I don't know.

 

No, they wouldnt. You're one person, they'll laugh. They dont need you, more than likely they dont even WANT you to be a customer.

One person *****ing wont effect what they show up at that table for, money. A thousand people *****ing wont effect what they show up for.

If you got a 100,000 signature partition demanding better service, priority for delayed orders and a more informative queue then you might get somewhere.

 

So mine is apparently in the hands of DHL according to Dell, but DHL says they don't pick up on the weekend... I guess I get it on tuesday.

 

DHL does intershipping throughout the weekend, just not deliveries.

 

That's the problem with these huge corporations that everyone throws their hard earned cash into. The companies don't even know that you are a customer, and they train the CSRs to read standard scripts to you every time. Even if you put a gun to Michael Dell's head and told him to deliver your laptop, it wouldn't get done before you blew his head off because his company is too large to control. Even the god of Dell can't control his company. He has so many customers that his model of building, testing, and shipping computers one-by-one doesn't allow for a great deal of variation in numbers of orders. The M1530 has proved to be a shining success for Dell, but demonstrates an utter failure in the way Dell has been building lapops. If Michael Dell can turn his company around from failure and back into making a profit, he can definitely fix this problem. I hope he does it soon, because if Dell offers me a good deal after my laptop begins aging, I will consider ordering from him again.

 

Dells profits are booming at the moment, booming. They are beating their projections and the stock is rising.

 

Yeah, but watch their bubble burst as they come out with something like Microsoft coming out with Vista.

 

5/30/2008 12:00 am Shipment Acknowledged Nashville, TN

Only about 17 hours drive to where I live...hoping for a Wednesday delivery.

 

I personally don't see why you wouldn't get it sooner than that...

 

I'm going under the assumption that they like to procrastinate as much as me. I've waited 3 weeks already, so I'm not expecting them to suddenly speed up the delivery process just to please me.

 

Yes, but it's not dell that's in charge of delivery...

 

True, but I've mostly heard negative reviews about DHL, although when I had a replacement keyboard shipped by them overnight it did arrive the following morning. Kind of wish I ordered 1-day delivery, but I didn't read any forums so didn't expect this huge delay.

 

I wish I had gotten the 1 day delivery myself...
If it does ship on wednesday like me ESD says then it probably won't get here until the week after :/

 

Is your system officially being delayed due to missing parts or it's in the state where it would theoretically ship any day, but for some reason doesn't?

 

Me?
No...my system is still in build...
That's all I know...

 

I still fear my package has been lost, two people here who left the same facility at the same times and went further distances have been scanned in at their local facilities but I havent..I hope nothings wrong. The plant it left was 90 miles away from me and it was almost 20 hours ago.

 

I'm sure your lappy is fine...
It's probable that the person at your local facility is lazy/forgetfull and your package just hasn't been scanned...

 

Yeah. I think it might have slipped off the truck and caused a 20 vehicle pile up on the freeway + 1 mortally wounded computer. lol I'm sure its rolling its way toward the facility safely on a truck, if it is not at the facility as we speak. Someone at the facility probably needed to get home before scanning, so he/she took off before it was finished. I'm sure it's fine.

 

Yeah..people are lazy around here..I hope they dont loose it.

 

heh...
Well you'll still see yours before I see mine so cheer up and enjoy