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post #41 of 229
3/1/04 at 11:46am
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Originally Posted by He|iX
Please post a huge review once u get it...i am really looking forward to have a look at its performance...its either this or 8790....though i am inclined towards xps.
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Originally Posted by HeLLSpiRE
ditto man, hope u get it soon, i gotat order by march 4 or else my coupon expires hehe
Will Do
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post #42 of 229
3/1/04 at 11:50am
Mine is on the build stage...

I got pretty much the default setup w/ 2 years at home and it came to ~2750 after rebate... it's too bad I ordered when I did, because the following week they changed the 'mail in rebate' to instant rebate... but oh well... I just hope I actually get the laptop this week... it's been a long enough wait as is (and it was just my birthday last weekend)... I deserve it for a present! =)
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post #43 of 229
3/1/04 at 11:56am
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Originally Posted by He|iX
hey how much did the xps cost you guys, with taxes and shipping? Their are so many different prices on the site. The cheapest i could get was $2486 with tax and the following config: 3.4ghz, 512mb ram, 60gb 7200rpm hdd, 24x cdrw/dvd and 2 Year Limited Warranty plus 2 Year At-Home Service.
Mine came to $3275 after tax and a 15% small business discount. I thought about switch to a 9100 to save a few hundred bucks, but I've been playing this game since the first of the year and just want my laptop now.

INTEL PENTIUM4 3.4GHZ,HT,15.4 WUXGA,XPS
3 Year Onsite Warranty
$169 MAIL-IN REBATE for Complete Care 3Year
98 WHR 12 CELL PRIMARY BATT W/SUBWOOFER
4X CD/DVD BURNER (DVD+RW/+R),MOD I9100
MICROSOFT WINDOWS HOME,ENG,I9100
60GB ULTRA ATA HD 72K,I9100
128MB ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9700
1GB DDR 400MHZ 2 DIMMS
Media Center Remote Control
EXCLUSIVE INSP XPS BACKPACK
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post #44 of 229
3/1/04 at 6:21pm
My XPS is now sitting in Testing... I am really hoping I'll get it this week... *crosses fingers*
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post #45 of 229
3/1/04 at 6:28pm
"It was a very fine machine that had a native 1600 pixel wide display that allowed you to work with two full-size pages open. However, the Achilles' heel of the machine was the LCD response rate." If that test Sager/Clevo/Powernotebooks display had a native res 1600 pixels wide, the it isn;t the same display as used in tht 8790, which is 1440 wide native. So, that display sucking doesn't necessarily mean the 8790's will.
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post #46 of 229
3/1/04 at 6:44pm
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Originally Posted by rchess
"It was a very fine machine that had a native 1600 pixel wide display that allowed you to work with two full-size pages open. However, the Achilles' heel of the machine was the LCD response rate." If that test Sager/Clevo/Powernotebooks display had a native res 1600 pixels wide, the it isn;t the same display as used in tht 8790, which is 1440 wide native. So, that display sucking doesn't necessarily mean the 8790's will.
To save yourself a little time, if you hit "reply" on the note that you want to write a quote regarding instead of "post reply" at the bottom. You can then cut out the parts you don't want. Hope that helps
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post #47 of 229
3/2/04 at 2:55am
Mine is past kitting to the build mode. May be time to order some ram.
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post #48 of 229
3/2/04 at 3:45am
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Originally Posted by cdd543
Mine is past kitting to the build mode. May be time to order some ram.

Now I am in testing thirty minutes later.
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post #49 of 229
3/2/04 at 5:21am
haha how far is that from shipping ?
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post #50 of 229
3/2/04 at 8:17am
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Originally Posted by cdd543
Now I am in testing thirty minutes later.
I placed my order on 02/24 just three days after yours so I hope my status changes soon. I am still sitting "InProduction" but all the sub-items are still grayed out .

-Geed
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post #51 of 229
3/2/04 at 1:04pm
Mine's been in boxing since last night... I'm hoping it doesn't take them long to put it in a box >
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post #52 of 229
3/2/04 at 1:18pm

To the Lucky Ones...

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Originally Posted by TheNiXXeD
Mine's been in boxing since last night... I'm hoping it doesn't take them long to put it in a box >
PLEASE take pictures with a digital camera of the beast when you get it! I'm sure we'd all love to see what it looks like in a higher resolution than the puny 200 x 300 graphic on the Dell site.
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post #53 of 229
3/2/04 at 1:30pm
I think things slow down in the "boxing" phase sometimes--mine is still in testing this morning.
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post #54 of 229
3/2/04 at 1:52pm
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Originally Posted by cdd543
I think things slow down in the "boxing" phase sometimes--mine is still in testing this morning.
You definately don't want to see leave the "testing" phase real quick
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post #55 of 229
3/2/04 at 1:54pm
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Originally Posted by LurkingJayhawk
You definately don't want to see leave the "testing" phase real quick

Yeah no kidding--don't want thirty minute turnaround for that.

doh--looked again and now I'm in boxing.
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post #56 of 229
3/2/04 at 2:10pm
I have a 3.3mp digital camera... and I plan on making a full review with benchmarks and stuff... don't worry =)
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post #57 of 229
3/2/04 at 2:12pm
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Originally Posted by cdd543
Yeah no kidding--don't want thirty minute turnaround for that.

doh--looked again and now I'm in boxing.
Well at least you'll know the power button works
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post #58 of 229
3/2/04 at 2:19pm
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Originally Posted by LurkingJayhawk
Well at least you'll know the power button works

Cmon now--no whammies. It went into testing last night so I am sure someone was up all night doing a little burn in, polishing the legs, turning it off and on etc.....
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post #59 of 229
3/2/04 at 3:17pm
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Originally Posted by cdd543
Cmon now--no whammies. It went into testing last night so I am sure someone was up all night doing a little burn in, polishing the legs, turning it off and on etc.....
I don't think mine was in testing much longer. I came back from vacation on Sunday and it was in a build status, by yesterday afternoon is was boxing. I would really rather them not waste a great deal of time testing, I'm quite capable of that and will be a little more thorough. I would only hope they look at the screen, test the power, HD, DVD/CD, and memory. I figure if they hook it up to Sisoft (or something similar) and do the system test, and check the screen that'd be fine with me. I found out from reading the article in CGW that you can have them do a default OS install, with only OS and Drivers (everything else on CD), I wish I had known that a couple weeks ago, it would have saved me the time of doing a reinstall.
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post #60 of 229
3/2/04 at 4:58pm
Mine went through testing in about 4 or so hours...

Do they usually sit in the boxing stage for a while? I'm really hoping to get my laptop by this weekend so I can get testing and benchmarking and reformatting and all that stuff out of the way... and I plan on LANning a bit with my friends since I'll have quite the nice computer by then...
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