***XPS M1530 Order Status Thread***

Shipped!!! as of 7/2/08 PM

No tracking info yet

Looks like I'll have to set off the fireworks so it'll find its way home.

 

Congrats. How long were you in boxing? I have been in Boxing since Monday morning and hoping it ships out tonight or tomorrow.

 

If your tracking number has letters at the beginning, you have to press "0" in the options menu when you call. You'll then talk to a live Purolator rep that will give you info on your laptop.

 

Oh how I wish this were possible!!!

 

Thanks for the info.

 

What are the odds? I live in a city of about 25,000 an hour west of Minneapolis, and DHL officially stopped servicing our area on Monday! Which means they have to transfer my package to USPS in order for it to be delivered. I talked to 3 different DHL reps today and each one told me that the package is still with DHL in Minneapolis.

Then I went outside to check the mail and there was a notice from USPS saying that they missed me and the package can be picked up at the post office IN MY TOWN. Apparently no one at DHL is actually capable of knowing where their own packages are...as the saying goes "they couldn't find their ass with both hands and an ass map!"

The good news: I should have my XPS by about 9 am tomorrow!

 

I just checked the status of my oder

The ESD has been shiofted from 14th July to 7th July

Am i wearing red rose glasses or what


MnVn

 

It shipped yesterday! Five days ahead of schedule!

 

I'm seriously going to shoot someone at dell. Their information sucks!! The automated system says my order has been in boxing for 3 days. I called 3 days ago and someone said my order was being shipped from X country to the US. I call today and someone tells me its still in the testing stage... I've had my order expedited and everything, still not going to ship before the ESD.

 

It was in boxing since real late Saturday... and status changed to shipped late yesterday and this morning I received an email and a tracking number.

 

Mine should be delivered to me any minute now. It left the Toronto east shipping centre (which is a 2 min drive from my house) a couple of hours ago.

 

I technically have my laptop... Its my grandfathers house, haha.

 

Yessss!!! My M1530 has just shipped. I checked online 5 minutes ago and the status is now shipped. It does not have tracking info but that is fine as long as it has shipped. I should get it early next week. For those of you waiting, I was in boxing since Monday morning so 3 1/4 full days in Boxing for me.

 

Im going to do a picture review soon.

 

Got mine an hours ago. It's in perfect condition. Right now, I', doing a clean install and putting on Vista 64bit.

 

Anyone thinking about canceling your order after hearing about the "defective" 8 series video cards ?

http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/nvidia-says-significant-quantities-of-laptop-gpus-are-defectiv/

 

No, because tons of laptops still have 8 series cards in them, and Dell is required to replace it if it causes a problem. Your warranty covers manufacturer defects.

Plus, I haven't heard of too many (or any, really) serious problems with the 1530, just the 1330.

 

Could Dell replace the 8600M GT with the 9600M GT on new M1530 units, or is it more likely that Dell is holding off on the 9 series for the M1530's replacement which might be released this summer ? I know any GPU failure is covered by the warranty, but it's a pain when it happens (I know). Some people with the 8600M GT have complained about failures or display issues, maybe not with the M1530, but other notebook brands using the 8600M GT.

 

Ordered my new XPS on June 29th, already in boxing stage as of today. Hoping to see it by mid-late next week.

 

Hi, new guy here. Your stories are scaring me, I just ordered XPS M1530 today with the 2.5 g processor, 4 gb ram, 250g hdd, 256 nvidia video card, wireless N card, WUXGA true life LCD


The projected ship date is July 25, but I leave for the University of AL July1, PLEASE tell me it will get here faster!!

 

Look at my last post. Mine has hit boxing pretty quick. July 1st though? WOW that's early.

 

yeah I don't start school until July 20, but the advanced lease that I signed puts us moving in on July 1. And I don't feel like driving 4 hours back home just to get my computer 3 or 4 days later

 

I hope mine goes that fast! What was your config like?

 

Wow, seems like Dell finally got on the ball with their systems. Took 5 weeks for my original system, one week for the first replacement, and two weeks for my second replacement. If only the first one could have been quick.

 

mind telling me why you had to have so many replacements?

 

first one had a 1680x1050 screen. Loved the resolution, but it had some bad backlight bleed on the bottom. I was able to get a LED screen upgrade for free, and then on my second one, it had dents on the palm rest. I offered to have them send me a palm rest, but they wanted a tech to do it, so I told them no deal, and told them I was going to be sent a new system.

This one so far is perfect. Good screen, no dents, no keyboard bulge. I like it alot.

 

@dell.scares.me:

T9300 C2D
4GB RAM
LED LCD
250GB 5400rpm HD
Intel Wireless N
Bluetooth 355
8600m GT
DVD+/-RW
6-cell
Vista Home Premium

 

Nice, I have hod nothing but good experiences with Dell. I ordered an XPS desktop from them around 2 years ago and received it within 2 weeks and it has always worked flawlessly. Maybe I will have the same luck with the M1530

 

So I checked the Order Status page, and mine's shipped! Yeah! The shipment's been "acknowledged" in Tennessee and it's getting shipped to Virginia so not that far to go!

So far Dell's been really wonderful with everything, especially my whole shipping location hiccup. Big, big props to them. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping DHL will be good, though. Last time I used them they kept forgetting my package in their truck or something - it kept going out for delivery and getting returned to the local center. They'd be more careful with a laptop, right? ...Right?

 

Yeah, i've had several Dell desktops...all came perfect, and quick.

There are a ton of issues that COULD be wrong the XPS notebooks...but I am sure a majority don't have them, and they have seemed to have fixed a lot of them


Good luck.

 

I ordered on 6/27/2008, and it just hit the shipped stage as of today! Estimated delivery date is 7/9/2008, though I don't have a tracking number yet.

 

Shipped! yes!! only bad part is that I have next day shipping, but the EDD is monday.... stupid holidays!! Can I just pick it up from DHL? Next day shipping... I mean it should be at their office tommorow right?

 

wtf, I ordered on the the 26th and my specs are the same as yours (except 320gb @ 7200rpms) and mines still in production

 

@top_gun: Call up dell, see what's going on. They'll usually give you free next day shipping if they can't give you any worth while information.

 

As of right now, Im reformatting... Get all that ****ware of my computer.

 

Apparently it's not that easy. I ordered mine on June 12th and have gotten two delay notices. I tried to see if I could upgrade the shipping and the lady told me that she couldn't change the shipping option.

 

I'm typing on my new XPS right now; It's awesome.

The monitor is clear, the finger-print scanner takes time to get use to... the harddrive gets a little hot, but It's okay.

 

i received mine on 1st july and now nvidia is saying there are defects in some of their graphic cards ...hope not with 8600 m gt (256 MB)

source : http://www.nytimes.com/idg/IDG_852573C4006938808825747A007A1944.html?ref=technology

 

Does anybody else have the issue of it dragging for about a minute or so after boot up, nothing horrible but it seems after windows pops up and all it acts as if it takes a little too long for the touch pad icons to load up and it seems a little glitchy until the icon loads and ie seems a little buggy until I hear the hdd idle down from boot up. It shouldn't be taking that much time to load up though, time from off to up is around 55 seconds thats with sidebar and all then 30 more seconds for extra icons and hdd to idle down. I'm thinking about removing sp1 or maybe doing the clean install I found in the forums what do you guys think. I know my hp behaves funny with sp1 similar to being slow at startup but I don't know.

 

Same, I hope there aren't defects in mine.

Well, I've got a two year warranty though so I'm not worried as much.

 

^Yeah, seriously, I got a 4 year warranty and 4 year accidental damage in case anything happens. I'm not going to risk it.

 

since some of us who got their xps m1530 recently or people who are goin to get it can directly return it to dell within 3 weeks and can go for another new laptop like the studio series ..........if 8600 m gt happens to be in those defective nvidia chipsets.....me confused whether to return or continue..

there's a thread goin on this topic ...here's the link

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=268718

 

EDD: on dell.ca....8/11/28
EDD after talking to dell personal on phone 7/17/08

its a little better but it still sucks that someone ordered their notebook later than me and will be getting it sooner as well

 

If the 8600m GT are defective, I believe Dell is required to repair them outside of the warranty (if you bought the computer before the official nVidia announcement was made). Otherwise we could all get together and have a nice class action lawsuit lol.

 

Oh yes. Either way, we win!

 

Haha. nVidia has officially stated that they will repair any problematic cards so...I'm not worrying too much.

 

I just put linux on my laptop and it works great

 

ITS HERE!!!, im in canada and i got it with the sleeve, remote, headphones, and teh case for the cds if anyone is interested =p

 

@browntown: Thanks, I was beginning to think they didn't ship with the remote/headphones anymore.

 

Amrndr, is this a software or hardware issue?

thanks
tonybatista