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tate's Cyborg Green m9700 Review

post #1 of 43
9/20/06 at 10:19pm
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Ok so me and the gal got home from watching Gridiron Gang and trying to figure out how to waste an hour and a half before driving down to Fed Ex and picking up my laptop cause he showed up waaayyy to early earlier. Hark, whats that sound? Sounds like someone pulling up into my driveway?




Booya baby!! He has returned. I greet him at the door and even thought about giving him a kiss but the g/f is there.............and I don't swing that way *sorry Teck*

Now I rush upstairs...........



Its like a ray of light shining down with the heavely "ahhhhhhhhs"


I had to photoshop this one to get my chubby out of there....sorry for the sasquatch legs


Only seconds till I see my Cyborg Green Machine!!! Are you ready??? Can you handle it???



WTF???!!!!


I stand there thinking what the hell is this?


*deep breaths* I turn it on and find out its the 2.0 proccessor, from my first order. I canceled that one and ordered a cyborg green case with the 2.4. So I get on the horn and call AW. The guy tells me I have to call back and talk to a sales rep and I might have to send it back. them! I'm going to pitch a fit and tell them to send me something for all my troubles. I'm going to keep this one cause I don't want to be without a laptop plus who knows how long it would take to get it. Right now it's reformatting and once I'm done I'll run benchies. I do have to say it is BEAUTIFUL!!!
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post #2 of 43
9/20/06 at 10:33pm
Looks good to me, tate, even if it isn't green.
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post #3 of 43
9/20/06 at 11:16pm
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Thanks Rob. Just got done formatting it and running benchmarks on it right now so I'll post when done. I do have to say this is a beauty
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post #4 of 43
9/20/06 at 11:20pm
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Originally Posted by tate
Thanks Rob. Just got done formatting it and running benchmarks on it right now so I'll post when done. I do have to say this is a beauty

Good to hear. A person should enjoy a new machine!
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post #5 of 43
9/20/06 at 11:22pm
Doh!....damn the devil. It still looks sweet, though not very green. Maybe you can use it while they build your green one?
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post #6 of 43
9/20/06 at 11:25pm
that sucks tate, im sry, i've never had a real problem w/ aw before but this is bs
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post #7 of 43
9/21/06 at 12:10am
Oh, Tate...that's very disappointing. If it was mine, I'd be tempted to keep the silver - because it does look awesome - but then, you have the processor change too.

Darn! Wishing you good luck in sorting this out.
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post #8 of 43
9/21/06 at 12:24am
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Yeah I'm going to keep it but I'll probably tell AW to upgrade my warrenty free of charge cause of their screw up or something. Anyways I ran 3d 05 and got like 8556. Pretty disappointed with the laptopvid2go drivers so I'm unistalling them and trying the stock drivers. Be back cause I have to go work on the cousins wireless.
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post #9 of 43
9/21/06 at 2:10am
This may be the only case I've heard of a person being disappointed with an m9700 (I know there's others who truthfully had issues, but this was pretty funny to read....)

Hope you get everything sorted out quickly.
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post #10 of 43
9/21/06 at 2:15am
I've got the best scores with AW's stock drivers. The laptop2video drivers cost me points, no matter what version I used... I imagine your score is a bit lower than the others here due to the 2.0 instead of the 2.4, but I'd bet it's partially the drivers also.

That's a real bummer about the change not going through. If they won't send you the higher spec processor they should at least refund you the difference as if I recall you were able to upgrade at pretty much no cost as the price had dropped.

Unless you really want the green, maybe they can send you an ML-44 and you can return the one you received. That way other than the color it would be the system you ordered...

Does it have the 256 or 512 cards in there?
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post #11 of 43
9/21/06 at 2:28am
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Originally Posted by BFisch06
This may be the only case I've heard of a person being disappointed with an m9700 (I know there's others who truthfully had issues, but this was pretty funny to read....)

Hope you get everything sorted out quickly.

Sounds like he's pretty happy with the m9700 to me if it's wrong and he's still going to keep it. I think he's more disappointed with Alienware...
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post #12 of 43
9/21/06 at 3:07am
hey tate...um not sure if anyone else has mentioned this but...i dont think that's green...

=P

well, I say box it up n return it b/c later on, u don't want to feel like you should have opted for the cyborg green....

and my condolences to the bum situation tate =(
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post #13 of 43
9/21/06 at 3:53am
wow what a story there tate.... brutal
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post #14 of 43
9/21/06 at 4:05am
thats annoying........ sorry tate
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post #15 of 43
9/21/06 at 6:27am
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Ok I am just getting done reformatting again. I don't know what I did wrong on the 1st one but I got that "select operating system thingy" and then the wireless wasn't working that great and the internet was messed up but everythings working great and I just installed the 2nd harddrive, its 110gigs and formating that. Once I defrag I'll run 3d-05 and see what I get. Better be better than that lame 8k score I got the last time. Hell my FX-55 7800gtx sli desktop is getting a little over 11k without oc'ing.

Thanks for the support guys and I'm going to keep this laptop. Man she sure is purty. I'll just call AW in the morning and see what was up with the upgrades, they didn't charge me for it
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post #16 of 43
9/21/06 at 9:41am
Oh you're not sending it back?

Worried about the time in between shipping? I would so ship that thing back in their FACE!
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post #17 of 43
9/21/06 at 10:22am
Looks cool, tate!
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post #18 of 43
9/21/06 at 1:54pm
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Originally Posted by Dukefrukem
Oh you're not sending it back?

Worried about the time in between shipping? I would so ship that thing back in their FACE!
Same here. I'd have to send it back because it wasn't the one I wanted...
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post #19 of 43
9/21/06 at 2:03pm
Aw hell no, that puppy would be sent back. I would not be happy if I bought a system and had a certain color that I wanted and got the wrong system.

But, if you are happy, then by all means keep it. Make sure you square up with Alienware though.
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post #20 of 43
9/21/06 at 4:13pm
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This system was the first one I wanted but when I got a call saying the silver case was on backorder I called and switched to the green cause that one was in stock and I decided to skip a bike payment and get the faster processor. I got a pm from AW-Steve asking for the account number and saying he would look into it for me. Now is that service or what? I'll keep this system cause its a beauty plus I installed the 2gigs or ram and the 2nd harddrive already. Another reason why I'll keep it is because I work out of town on a 2 week on 2 week off schedule and I don't want to have to juggle my schedule around. I will say this runs like a champ. Nice and quiet, the screen is amazing, the wireless works great, BF2 runs superb
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