The "Official" IFL90 Shipping/Waiting Thread

I understand however, what I'm saying is that Sager should recieve the same amount of WSXGA's from Compal as Xotic does however its apparent that they got more since orders are being filled up to Jul 13th and people who ordered in June like me arent even getting a peep from Xotic.

 

thats true nshockey i emailed xotic to see if i could get some info, no response just yet.

 

I know this is double posting..sorry

Donald did mention that Sager got more though other channels.

 

kind of bs if u ask me, but hey im just a consumer who spent 1800+ dolllars who cares bout me right

 

NOBODY, lol jk.......we all are anxious to get our hands on our Sagers/Ifls.

 

yea it just seems like more bad news followed by more bad news, its a rather depressing wait unfortunatly but when it comes and hopefully it will before I am forced to cancel it will all be worth it

 

hhahah, where have i seen that b4.....oh yea the guy who threatened to cancel and got good news

 

I hope you're right my friend

 

me too ;p, when did u order by the way?

 

june 24th you?

 

Well my WSXGA isn't the sager. I just got the force IFL90 from xotic and I get it sometime this week. I'm not sure how many were in the shipment though.

 

Yea it was a small shipment I ordered on June 24th and I have a chance of being in the 3rd shipment accprding to Justin, bs

 

Syntax Error, I don't think this is true. Donald told me that Powernotebooks and XoticPC never actually receive the Sager notebooks. Apperently they are shipped straight to the customers from Sager directly.

Before I knew this I said something similar to what you said and his reply was:

Hope that clears some things up

 

I suppose in your case this is true, but in my case, being a California resident, I have to have it shipped to Nevada first then back to California. Reason being is that I don't want to pay sales tax. I suppose if I had the money to waste, I'd have Sager ship it out to me directly and I'd have the laptop in 45 minutes, essentially.

 

Ah I see, now we're both on the same page now.

 

so what im getting out of this, is that basically the resellers dont actually get our laptops? sorry but im still confused

 

syntax im in the same place as you. since I live in california its going to probably be a longer wait for you and me to get our np2090s. and since i ordered in xotic..its going to probably take longer since yours is going to pnb in nevada.

 

I wonder what the possibility of picking up the notebook at Sager Notebooks is, I dunno how that might work, but their warehouse is a drive away, and I'd much rather pick it up myself.

 

Lol you Californians are complaining about the wait... I live in Maryland, how do you think I feel?

If you ordered a Sager and don't live in California, yes the reseller never receives it. In all other cases, as in you live in California, or you ordered a Compal/FORCE/Power Pro your reseller will get your laptop.

 

if you pick it up i would probably guess that you would have to pay sales tax since you are buying a product in california. if you go to nevada then you are buying a product in nevada.

 

well how does it feel if your product has to go from 3-400 miles away to a few thousand miles away then has to come to you?? its sad..

 

well how does it feel if your product has to go from 3-4000 miles away, thats a few thousand miles away just come to you?? its really sad..

 

at least your getting laptops

 

Mine has to go to NH. 3,236 mi But PNB told me they'll give me 3 day shipping so I can get it by Friday.

 

I'm about 800 miles away from Xotic. I wonder how long it will take.

 

Didn't you say you had 2 day shipping? So, two days

 

I'm about a mile from Xotic. Thats why mine is shipping from California by PNB. 7% on $1700 is $119 - makes quite a difference.

 

good news, xotic told me my order will be shipped in 1-2 weeks. ordered the 5th of July

 

Doh! Forgot that little part.

 

Hmmm. I've been hearing that since mid-June. Doesnt mean much. Going to pull the plug on my order next week. The latest email I got was that the pre-orders for IFL90s will be shipped end of July to early August which is next week.

Now I read things on the forum talking about mid to late Aug. You'd think that an operation like Compal with supply chain software and all that would be able to reliably tell the resellers when the order is slated for production.

 

Yeah, you'd think so... but here we are.

 

I'm pulling the plug too if mine isn't shipped by late next week. I ordered from Powernotebooks June 4th (yes June) with the WSXGA+ screen.
I have gone too long for this to drag on another month. I'm gone for work and every week that I don't have this thing is a real burden. Trying to do CAD stuff while only at home and losing the productivity while traveling is getting to be too much.
I hate to make the switch over to the ASUS G1S but it is looking like that is what I will end up with. I also plan on sending an email to Excalibur PC to see on potential shipping dates for the Asus V1S.
This has been ridiculous.

 

I hear ya Jurassicjet. I wish I had my new machine to do the testing and configurations I need. Part of my plans for the summer is to come up with a better backup system than what I currently have. To do that I want to try technologies that I have not used before (different filesystems, encryption, logical volume management). Doing that with my current machine is a pain in the ass. I ran a compilation last night that took forever. And my tests today also took much longer than necessary.

 

I was told that there is a good chance that my order made on July 23 for a WXGA will ship in the next 5-9 days , its a sager from Xotic.

 

Let's not confuse shipping dates for new orders with shipping dates for Pre-orders. Of course new orders will ship later on into August. Pre-orders will ship much sooner.

I really implore you to check with your reseller about YOUR order instead of trying to interpret the information brought back here about someone else's order...you will be much happier.

 

i agree with u paladin, but we all like to fool ourselves

 

Donald I pre-ordered June 24th and I talked directly with justin and he told me I will be in the 2nd or 3rd shipment....the second or third shipment!!??, how could I be that far back and possibly be in the 3rd tht sounds like I could be a pre order that ships late August no?

 

It depends if you ordered a Sager NP2090 or the Compal IFL-90. If you ordered the latter, then we have no info on when their shipment's gonna come to ship out to the resellers (in your case, XoticPC) and configure to ship it out to you. The news Donald posted only applies to Sager NP2090s. It may seem unfair, but that's what happened with shipments and Sager was on track on securing their IFL-90 shipments properly.

 

I had talked to Ron Baird of PNB the other day and he said he would be shipping me a model that was the same minus the fingerprint reader. I said that it would be fine.
Googling around though, it looks like this model is the FL90, and has a few more differences than just lacking a fingerprint reader. Does anyone know what the differences are/have any comparision pictures?

 

My pictures of FL90: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=146988

IFL90: http://www.powernotebooks.com/specs/images/j1015/

steven

 

The FL-90 and the IFL-90 have a few differences, most of them being aesthetic and looks than specs or technical differences.

FL-90, has a different lid and different top buttons, the plastic is a different shade of color, more "bluish" than black.

From Stevonio's review (the FL-90):
Different lid:


Different top buttons, true buttons rather than heat sensitive buttons:



Compal IFL-90 (Sager NP2090) [Pictures from Powernotebooks.com]:
Glossy lid:

Heat sensitive buttons and fingerprint reader, the plastic is black:

 

Wow, my buddy ordered his back in late June from Xotic and he called Friday and they told him it would be at least 2 more weeks. He almost canceled the order but after looking around some more there is nothing that can beat the deal he got with this machine.

 

Aesthetically, the FL-90 is not looking to good for me. =( Stevonio, which do you think looks better (since pictures wouldn't do the FL-90 justice)?

 

I do not like two-tone back on the sager, but I like the heat sensitive button bar area for the keyboard better. Pure black would have been better IMO, but im pleased.

Steven

 

hooray, just found out my late-may wsxga+ ifl-90 from powernotebooks was covered in their initial "very few" shipment! Now where's the forum to complain about fedex 2-day air taking too long?

 

are you sure it is a WXGA and a sager?, I originally order the wsxga but changed it to get it sooner, so I sort of expected mine to get here by the 13th, now i received more "official" confirmation...

 

Lol I hear ya. I'm counting down the hours till I can get my lappy.

 

same here. ive been getting flak about how my laptop is getting here so slowly by some friends whom i hang w/at lans. but now there will be a new powerhouse in town compared to those go 7600s and go 6600s..

 

I'm hoping it's coming soon, they called me thursday and left a message saying they were assembling my WSXGA+ from xotic, but I never got a tracking number and my phase didn't change on their website.

 

there is also a 72hr(?) burn in testing by xotic so you will probably get that tracking number on monday or tuesday hopefully.