When is your E1705 Core 2 Duo ship date - Page 8

Ok.. This is weird. I just checked my shipping status. It still shows an estimated delivery date of 9/14. However, it is on the truck for delivery here in Lansing, MI!!!

I guess I will have it early. I will post here when I get it. Almost there!!

Me too! Status is on truck for delivery today! Can't wait to get home from work!!

booo mine is taking forever to get to ship status

the 1705 dell ordered for me (core 2 T7200) yesterday was built yesterday, is going to ship today and be here tomorrow...... hee hee....

... too bad it is the wrong machine.....

Supposed to be getting a "new built" 1710 to replace the one I have now seeing the amount of problems I have had with the onsite techs and online tech support. They obviously goofed the order. Having 4 repairs in 2 months is not good. 2 horrible screens, a grinding DVD burner that wont burn, and a weird buzzing noise coming from around the battery/subwoofer...

but DAMN that 1705 was a fast build/ship...

compare specs to my sig and get a chuckle on the "replacement" well except the Merom.... that looks awfully tasty...

11222-4795Inspiron E1705, Intel Core 2 Duo processor T7200 (4MB/2.00GHz/667MHz)
11310-0173Airborne Documentation, System Exchanges,Factory Install
11310-8319Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
11311-56341GB, DDR2, 533MHz 2 Dimm, for Inspiron 9400/E1705
11312-037480 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery, for Inspiron 9400/E1705
11313-38668X DVD+/-RW Drive, for Inspiron 9400/E1705
11313-4217Integrated High Definition Audio, Inspiron
11320-4561256MB ATI MOBILITY RADEON X 1400 HyperMemory, for Inspiron9400/E1705
11320-492617 inch UltraSharp TrueLife Wide-screen WUXGA, for Inspiron 9400/E1705
11341-294680GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive for Inspiron 9400/E1705
11412-0687NETZERO ISP
11412-0689Image Restore
11412-0751Dell Media Experience 3.0 Basic
11412-0787AOL for Broadband
11412-0850Network Associates McAfee 7.0,English,90-day Trial
11412-0865Basic digital Music,Photo and Game experience
11412-0915Microsoft Works 8.5 Plus Office Trial, for Inspiron
11412-0917Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0, for Inspiron
11420-4770Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 2, English, for Inspiron
11420-4830DELL SUPPORT 3.0
11420-4928Windows Media Player 10
11420-5460Complimentary courses: Look for EU icon
11420-5476Dell Direct Download
11420-5769Internet Search and Portal
11420-5775CyberLink PowerDVD v5.7 Decoding Sofware for DVD Drives
11420-5924Icon Consolidation Application
11430-0493Integrated 10/100 Network Cardand Modem, for Inspiron
11430-1903Dell Wireless 1390 802.11g Mini Card (54Mbps), for Inspiron 9400/E1705

got mine! am I first?? suckers....goin to work lol. Anywho, it does indeed have the A03 bios.

Bastard!

Still waiting for mine. Should be here anytime now.

That's good to hear about the bios. Mine has now been delivered as well!! 5:00 is a Looooong way away...everyone else who receives their systems, enjoy!!

haven't installed my 2GB of 667 ram yet...

dell support sucks, they are giving me the run around. tried chatting with them and they said they can't help me. those fu***ers

My mom left early this morning for tennis, got home around 12:30. No sign of the UPS guy, no missed delivery notice like he would usually put on the front door, so he hadn't been here this morning. She's been here since, and he still hasn't shown up. Now I'm here, so I guess I will get my laptop delivered right into my hands!

I can't wait, I keep looking at my watch, and I keep hearing school buses go through the neighborhood thinking they are the truck. And I'm just passing time by browsing notebookforums... I'll let everyone know when it comes, I am so freakin excited it's not even funny!!

It has arrived!!

Man this thing is nice!!

I am updating XP as we speak. There are actually alot of high priority updates that it needed.

The only thing wrong so far was the cover for the DVD drawer was not snapped into place. It snapped in no problem.

I am going to run 3Dmark soon and post the results.

Oh yeah, I also have BIOS A03

Everyone that received their notebooks, check the registry to make sure it is optimized for Core 2 Duo. I posted a link in an earlier post in this thread. Still waiting for mine to ship

I checked the registry and it is optimized for the Core 2 Duo!

Sweet! I'm still waiting for mine to ship too, but it should only be minutes now... Maybe max of an hour or so, but this is about the time UPS usually comes by!

I may have spoke too soon. The registry is correct, but the boot.ini file is not.

According to your link:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /usepmtimer

The key being that /usepmtimer is there. Well it is not on mine. I will put it in and see what happens.

Update: I added it to the boot.ini file and all is well!

Great to hear, now we just need to wait for Dell to release the bios for download!!

D.

Well I'm STILL waiting for the UPS guy... Checked the UPS site, they say packages arrive between 9am-7pm so I've still got 2.5 hours... Oh the agony!

Dude I totally feel your pain. Every car that went by the house this afternoon meant a trip to the window. When the Fedex guy did pull up, he sat in the truck for a minute. I almost went out there to get it myself.

The wait was well worth it. This thing rocks!

Lol yeah I'm sure... I'm STILL waiting, and it's almost 5:00, probably later than any package has arrived before... Or maybe it just seems that way, time is going by a minute at a time now...

I wish the tracking number was more than just "5:14am - OUT FOR DELIVERY"... Like maybe an actual street name of where the truck is, or something. You'd think with all the GPS and Wide-area internet and everything, they'd be able to set something like that up. Or maybe it would just take too much bandwidth, I don't know.

Anyway I continue to wait...