***OFFICIAL*** M1730 news thread - Page 6

Very nice. You should enjoy it.

is dell gonna be the First to get the 8800's? because they were the first to get the 512 7900GTX's last march/april 2006

Congrat's man ,sounds like yours will be delivered pretty quick,mines been sitting "in progress" for six days,hope I don't have to tell them to stick it up their *** because they blatantly lied about del times,but we'll see,they do state 10 working days and its only been 5 working days,so I won't get too excited yet

I guess if Dell U.S. has premade 2999.00 ones on hand,that would explain your quick delivery/lack of customisation at the moment.

I live in New Zealand and normal delivery is ten working days,I just noticed my original order confirmation email said Oct 9th Eta,now when I check online it says Oct 17th.....hope they are not going to do an XPS M1330 job and start putting back the delivery date's again and again,that will annoy me enough to cancel the order,as I made a particular point with the rep about parts shortages/delivery times........plus its money I should be spending on other things

Do the U.S. laptops normally ship from Malaysia ?

Did you have no option,but to get the blue lid trim?which cpu ?

If I couldn't have ordered it with XP,I wouldn't have ordered one at all,I already have a Vista disc if sp1 magically makes it worthwhile having.

Wow...holy shite, you guys are getting yours NEXT WEEK?!? I customized one, and it's been sitting 'In Production' (Pre-Production on the main Account page) for NINE DAYS (since 9/28)!! They haven't touched it, or even gathered the parts together in one place, apparently. My 'estimated ship date' isn't until October 22nd, FFS...how long does it bloody take to snap on a grey lid and a 2.8 processor?!? Muther pus-bucket.

PS. Yeah, I went ahead and ordered one, basically after hearing talk about the chassis design, of all things...(*hangs head in shame and shuffles feet, wondering why ~$5000 in business credit sounded like such a small number when convincing self it was worth it--then remembers this chassis will last 3 years and receive every graphics and processor upgrade Dell introduces along the way since they blew such a wad on R&D and have so much cooling head-room in the f@cker*)...all in all, this is the best thing I could buy, since it is (graphics-wise) at least a small upgrade from the 1710 (and in terms of overall features and power, a HUGE upgrade...they finally caught up with Sager in that department)...The big convincer, though, was the fact that it will likely only be obsolete when Dell decides to hibernate for another 1.5 years and design a new chassis, instead of just releasing four million upgrades for the thing, and beating everyone to the market with all the cool new hardware! Once again, I wish I could press the 'Fast-Forward' button on the VCR of life...heh, last time I wished that was ordering the 1710; before that, the XPS2; and before that, the XPS1. Each one lasted a bit longer before being replaced, and I'm hoping the 1730 is a leap beyond and will justify the early-adoption gamble (i.e. Pay more now and use it longer before obsolesence, or pay less later and need a new 'puter sooner to keep up with cutting edge).

Hehe,lucky buggar,giving the lowdown on its going to fall to you then huh.

Guess there's at least 3 of us that don't think its ugly now

You'll love it, of course....

I want to order one with 2 solid state drives in a raid, extreme processor, and 4GB of memory.

But it's way too friggen much. I'm going to give a few months and see what other options they add and see what the price does.

I don't need 2 8700s in SLI. A single 512 would be good enough for me. I don't need the Physics accelorator either. Intel turbo cache would be nice.

Well when anybody gets theirs, some benchmarks would be very nice

I'm thinking about getting this mainly because once I'm off to graduate school, bringing my desktop may be a bit much. This would make things easier in terms of moving things and having room.

Oh and if say I got one with the T7700 (2.4 GHz), I'd be able to swap it out for the X7900 later if I'd like, yes? I don't plan on doing it anytime soon if and when I got the M1730, but perhaps later I might (like I did with my XPS Gen 2 for super cheap).

Of course...that's the Beauty of 'the Beast'!

Ultimate and near-infinite upgradability!

Yeah, I figured as much but considering it was an "Extreme" CPU, I wasn't 100% sure. Seemed it was but just needed a little bit of clarification. Thanks!

I'm probably going to instantly reformat...I've just heard too many stories about incompatibility with current games and barfing on framerates...even if you want to dual boot, though, you'll have to reformat, because XP must apparently be installed FIRST to dual-boot the OS's...?

If you want to dual-boot, I'm pretty sure you won't need to format. Considering you don't have much to back up, try one these guides on APC Magazine.

Dual-Booting Guides for XP/Vista/Linux