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Just ordered my new M17x, and now it is on HOLD!?

post #1 of 9
6/9/09 at 1:13am
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Here are the specs:
Just placed my order and it shows Dell boxes...YIKES...LOL

Here are my specs, did I do ok?
Estimated Delivery Date : 07/10/2009 Quantity Item Description 1 Space Black – Anodized Aluminum
1 Intel® Core™2 Extreme Quad QX9300 2.53GHz (12MB Cache, 1066MHz FSB)
1 6GB DDR3 at 1066MHz
1 Mouse Pointers, Standard
1 17-inch WideUXGA 1920x1200 (1200p)
1 Dual NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 260M, 2GB – SLI® Enabled
1 500GB 7,200RPM w/ Free Fall Protection
1 Personalized Nameplate
1 Mars Red
1 Windows Vista® Home Premium (64-bit Edition) with Service Pack 1
1 Alienhead Chrome Red
1 Alienhead Chrome Red
1 Windows Style, Default
1 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 9.0
1 Slot-Load Dual Layer Blu-ray Combo (BR-ROM, DVD+-RW, CD-RW)
1 Internal 300Mbps Dual-Band a/g/n Wireless with MIMO Technology
1 Automatic Updates ON
1 Power Plan, High Performance
1 (GMT - 6.00) Central Time (US & Canada)
1 1Yr Ltd Hardware Warranty, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis
1 AlienRespawn Image Recovery DVD
1 World of Warcraft Preinstall Edition
1 Alienware RSS Feed
1 Internal Wireless Bluetooth® 2.1 with EDR

I got the first e-mail saying it was received and processing and then I got an e-mail saying it was on hold: I got this message:
"While processing your order, we were unable to obtain authorization from Dell Financial Services for this purchase.</B> "

They want me to call Dell's Financial Services. This has not happened before. I have not used my dell account in almost 2 years, and it has a $5,000 limit with a zero balance.....anyone else have this problem?


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post #2 of 9
6/9/09 at 1:48am
Just one question, why didn't you get the 280m SLI?? Anyways congrats that is one tricked out system
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post #3 of 9
6/9/09 at 1:56am
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Umm $300 extra, just couldn't do it.

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Originally Posted by sid_c View Post
Just one question, why didn't you get the 280m SLI?? Anyways congrats that is one tricked out system
Had to draw the line somewhere, lol. Oha nd I called Dell and got the hold removed and order confirmed
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post #4 of 9
6/9/09 at 10:33am
I would have got less Ram(4 gigs and upgrade later), skipped out on the Re-Spawn as installation discs are already provided and Vista already uses the "Image Installation process" for quick reformats and re-installs. Then I would bump up the warranty a notch or two.

I think 280's are not essential considering they only offer a 10% performance increase compared to the 260's and definitely not worth the price per performance difference.

Makes me laugh when I think my first notebook had 2MB of deicated memory in 1997 and now they come with 2GB's of video...CRAZY STUFF!!! LOL!!!

Otherwise thats one sweet machine you got there. I also heard the shipping dates are the absolute latest and they may even be shipping earlier than expected.

Congrats!
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post #5 of 9
7/2/09 at 11:20pm
Try to call Alienware to see if you can still upgrade to a 3 year warranty imo.
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post #6 of 9
7/2/09 at 11:32pm
That is a mad system dude.
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post #7 of 9
7/15/09 at 8:46pm
Did you happen to get it yet? I have seen very little in the way of reviews or production photos.
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post #8 of 9
7/16/09 at 1:33am
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Oh yeah, I got it o the 26th!

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Originally Posted by ewolff View Post
Did you happen to get it yet? I have seen very little in the way of reviews or production photos.
Then I left town for two weeks and could only take my m15x with me. So I have not had much time with it yet. But in the time that I have used it I LOVE IT!!!!!!!! It plays WoW amazingly. It looks beautiful and handles like a dream

More to come....
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post #9 of 9
7/16/09 at 11:10am
Update the warranty to 3 years!
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