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New XPS m1730 owner...

post #1 of 21
4/28/09 at 12:39pm
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Still waiting for the stork to deliver...

Here are the specs on my order.

1 Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T9300 (2.5GHz/800Mhz FSB/6MB cache)
1 Bone White
1 4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz
1 17 inch UltraSharp TrueLife Wide-screen WUXGA
1 NVIDIA® GeForce® 8700M GT 256MB GDDR3
1 Speed: 500GB SATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) with Free Fall Sensor
1 Genuine Windows Vista® Ultimate Bonus
1 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 9.0
1 CD / DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW Drive)
1 High Definition Audio 2.0
1 Dell Wireless 1505 802.11a/g Mini Card (54Mbps)
1 No Productivity software pre-installed
1 Logitech® GamePanel Display
1 McAfee SecurityCenter 15-months
1 85 WHr Lithium Ion Battery (9-cell)
1 1Yr Ltd Hardware Warranty, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis
1 No ISP requested
1 Built-in Bluetooth capability (2.0 EDR)
1 No Entertainment software pre-installed
1 Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Label
1 Vista Premium Label

Save $185 off this Dell XPS Laptop! - $0.00
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Order Subtotal: $1,444.00
Shipping and Handling Total: $29.00
Shipping Discount: -$29.00
Tax Total: $97.47
Total Amount: $1,541.47
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post #2 of 21
4/28/09 at 1:10pm
Congrats. I got my M1730 yesterday
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post #3 of 21
4/28/09 at 1:30pm
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Originally Posted by Tobbev View Post
Congrats. I got my M1730 yesterday
Yes, congrats. To both of you. I have had one (outlet bought) for a while.
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post #4 of 21
4/28/09 at 3:53pm
I'm not sure you are gonna like how one 8700 performs. Then again, the SLI 8700's aren't too much of an upgrade...
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post #5 of 21
4/28/09 at 9:21pm
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I'm not sure you are gonna like how one 8700 performs. Then again, the SLI 8700's aren't too much of an upgrade...
I wondered the same thing, couldn't afford the $600 price jump to SLI. Ill let you know how it performs.
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post #6 of 21
4/29/09 at 12:39am
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Originally Posted by zzpulp View Post
I'm not sure you are gonna like how one 8700 performs. Then again, the SLI 8700's aren't too much of an upgrade...
I'm curious. Can the single card notebooks be upgraded to SLI? I know they have kits to upgrade from the 8700 to the 8800 SLI's, but am curious if a single card notebook can be upgraded to a dual card notebook at a later time.....
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post #7 of 21
4/29/09 at 1:55am
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I'm curious. Can the single card notebooks be upgraded to SLI? I know they have kits to upgrade from the 8700 to the 8800 SLI's, but am curious if a single card notebook can be upgraded to a dual card notebook at a later time.....
Yeah, you can buy an SLI video card later and replace your 8700 with it.
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post #8 of 21
4/29/09 at 2:09am
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Originally Posted by |-007-| View Post
Yeah, you can buy an SLI video card later and replace your 8700 with it.
Good to know.. Thanks!
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post #9 of 21
4/29/09 at 1:11pm
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Originally Posted by romes View Post
I'm curious. Can the single card notebooks be upgraded to SLI? I know they have kits to upgrade from the 8700 to the 8800 SLI's, but am curious if a single card notebook can be upgraded to a dual card notebook at a later time.....
Well you can replace your card (one GPU on it) with another card (with two GPU's on it). Just wanted to differentiate that from being able to just buy a single card and add it to your single card setup to get SLI (you can't do this).
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post #10 of 21
4/29/09 at 5:16pm
congrats i had one last year and sold it for $1200 plus a dell xps m1710 and i wish i never sold it but i needed the money. i still have the m1710 but i think its time to do a system exchange
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post #11 of 21
5/4/09 at 3:21am
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Originally Posted by zzpulp View Post
I'm not sure you are gonna like how one 8700 performs. Then again, the SLI 8700's aren't too much of an upgrade...
Wow, the thread held out for a solid 3 posts before the obligatory 8700 statement. Impressive.
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post #12 of 21
5/5/09 at 1:34am
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lmao
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post #13 of 21
5/12/09 at 4:52am
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You know it really really sucks for me that Dell decided not to put single GPU's in the 1730's anymore. Just a week after I ordered one.

Now the 1730's come standard with SLI GPU's at no additional cost. So for the same price I paid for the single GPU a week ago, today I can order the same exact configuration, but this time with SLI GPU's.

Son of a ......

Whats the restocking fee? 15%

So $221 to send it back for a refund lol.

The upgrade to SLI was $200...

So if I sent this one back, ordered a new one with the same configuration, but this time with the SLI, it would only cost me $21.

Deep thought.... If I do send it back and order a new one, Ill order the new one in my moms name since she works for Dell and I can get even more of a savings. Didn't think to do that before.
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post #14 of 21
5/13/09 at 12:51am
just return it for a full refund. cant you still do that within 21 days. if you have time left start getting bsod and random shutdowns. keep complaining and on the last day say im sick of this, i want my money back
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post #15 of 21
5/13/09 at 8:40am
Return it and order one w/ 8800M GTX or better.
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post #16 of 21
5/15/09 at 11:41am
I just ordered a 1730 on 5/11. Can anyone tell me how long it took to get delivered. The order status 800 # blows.
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post #17 of 21
5/15/09 at 5:05pm
1750?
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post #18 of 21
5/15/09 at 5:46pm
sorry i meant 1730
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post #19 of 21
5/15/09 at 9:43pm
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Originally Posted by SchultzStaffel View Post
sorry i meant 1730
you should be able to log on to your account on dell and track it's progress
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post #20 of 21
5/16/09 at 11:07am
its showing no recent orders to display.
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