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post #41 of 362
8/14/09 at 2:42am
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I wonder what that means for my 8800 that I was promised to be installed on my laptop, dispatch number and all.
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post #42 of 362
8/14/09 at 5:27am
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Originally Posted by Fgo View Post
I wonder what that means for my 8800 that I was promised to be installed on my laptop, dispatch number and all.
This is the conspiracy theorist in me, but maybe your laptop never existed? They just promised you an imaginary laptop to get you off their backs for a while, and now you're gonna have to run the gauntlet again and they are hoping you'll just give up.

Probably not but I wouldn't put it past Dell now-a-days... lol.
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post #43 of 362
8/14/09 at 9:06pm
They are going to have to think of something, they don't sell the 1730's anymore. If Nvidia is not delivering any more 8800's, how is Dell going to honor there warranties?

Hope no one claims anything???
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post #44 of 362
8/14/09 at 11:30pm
They have Refurbs most lilely

not sure they would offer a Alienware laptop
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post #45 of 362
8/14/09 at 11:48pm
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Originally Posted by dave-p View Post
They have Refurbs most lilely

not sure they would offer a Alienware laptop
Typically the refurbish they offer are available on the Dell Outlet. The Dell outlet has been out of 1730's for a long while.

Not saying I think we'll get the alienware. In all honestly, I would settle for less and a little cash back, like that's going to happen....
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post #46 of 362
8/15/09 at 12:25am
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Originally Posted by dave-p View Post
They have Refurbs most lilely

not sure they would offer a Alienware laptop
dell has already started replacing 1730's with m17's. it is a trickle right now but will be the normal thing to do in 6 months to a year.
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post #47 of 362
8/15/09 at 12:40am
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Well they're finally "building" a new one for me and it's "In Production. Here are the specs

D897C Base,Notebook,CPEN,T8100,M1730 $236.16

0293D Module,Cord,Power,120V,6 Ft $.00

0797C Customer Kit,Documentation, Airborne $1.99

C912C Module,Label,Intel,Notebook Core Merom,Core Penryn $.00

CW774 Service Install Module Software,Inspiron,M1730 $.00

CY416 Module,Software,Dell Media Direct,3.5,Operating System $4.97

CY419 Module,Software,Dell Media Direct,3.5,SIBERIA $5.86

DP434 Module,Card(Circuit),Network DW1395,Inspiron,Dell Americas Organization $7.58

DR146 Module,Software,VU32,Inspiron English,Dell Americas Organization,No Docs/diskettes $.31

FK244 Module,Software,DT-ICLNR Dell Americas Organization $.00

FT348 Module,Assembly,Base,M1730 $165.87

GT655 Module,Liquid Crystal Display 17WU,W/CMRA,M1730,SHAR $261.41

HR105 Module,Card,Graphics IUPGA5D,G84,SLI $370.00

J206C Module,Software,Dell Connect 2.1,Dell Americas OrganizationEMEA,Brazil Customer Center $.00

J908C Module,Dual In-line Memory Module,4G,800,DDR2,2X2G Inspiron $42.00

JN197 Ship Group,Notebook,United States,M1730,DAO-MDS $5.24

KW181 MOD,SW,DSPRT-CTR,2.0 $.00

NW220 Module,Dvd+/-rw,8X,Ide (integrated Drive Electronics),M1730,TSST $36.50

P350D Module,Software,Dell Media Direct,3.5,Kit,M1730 $1.06

T013C Module,Software,Works,9 English $9.95

UU467 Module,Insert,Plastic,Red Liquid Crystal Display,M1730 $7.60

UW429 Module,Keyboard,101,United States,M1730,Dell Americas Organization $23.70

UY392 Module,Information,Liquid Crystal Display,Cover,WCMRA Corsica/Gilligan/Sapporo/Yebis $.00

W001F Module,Hard Drive,320,7.2,FreeFall Sensor,SGT-CAS,INS $64.00

W871N Module,Software,WINDOWS-LIVE Consumer $.00

WJ380 Module,Information,NO RAID Inspiron $.00

WP008 Module,Accessory,Binder,M1730 England/english,Dell Americas Organization $14.82

WW439 Module,Label,Microsoft,WindowsVista Os,Premium,Small $.02

WX695 Module,Adapter,Alternating Current,230W,Delta - Ac Adapt World Wide $34.00

XG487 Module,Battery,Primary,80WHR 9C,SANYO $50.05

XM544 Module,Software,PC-RESTORE Transactional Line Of Business $.00

Y573C Module,Software,Roxio,10.2 Dell Edition $.45

The final price on that one according to the sheet is $1343.54 before tax

Here is the old one they were gonna send me

YN582 Base,Notebook,Core Merom T7500,XPS-M1730 $347.85

0293D Module,Cord,Power,120V,6 Ft $.00

0797C Customer Kit,Documentation, Airborne $1.99

5T445 Module,Cable,Video, Digital Video Interface, Video Graphics Adapter, Dimension $2.94

C6439 Module,Techsheet,Recycle, Notebook/Desktop,System $.40

CU030 Module,Dvd+/-rw,8X,Ide (integrated Drive Electronics),M1730,HLDS $36.50

CW774 Service Install Module Software,Inspiron,M1730 $.00

DX476 Module,Label,Intel,Notebook Centrino Mobile Technology Santa Rosa Merom $.00

DX631 Module,Insert,Plastic,GRAY Liquid Crystal Display,M1730 $7.60

FK244 Module,Software,DT-ICLNR Dell Americas Organization $.00

FT348 Module,Assembly,Base,M1730 $165.87

GW010 Module,Cable,Video,Digital Video Interface,HDMI,INSP $3.25

HP010 Module,Hard Drive,120G,7.2K Serial Ata,F080,INS $66.30

HR105 Module,Card,Graphics IUPGA5D,G84,SLI $370.00

HT746 Module,Software,Quick Fix Engineering,VHP32,Inspiron $.00

HU144 Module,Card,Graphics Physics Processing Unit,128MB,Notebook $127.00

JN197 Ship Group,Notebook,United States,M1730,DAO-MDS $5.24

KU312 Module,Software,Works,8.5 Office,TRIAL, ENG $1.46

MR589 Module,Software,Dell Media Direct,3.4,SIBERIA $4.47

NP562 Module,Software,VHP32,InspironEnglish,Dell Americas Organization,No Docs/diskettes $.31

NX186 Module,Software,DSPRT3.4 Gteck0,Dimension,Inspiron $.00

PU575 Module,Remote Control Notebook,Mobile 2008 $1.75

RX386 Module,Software,GRAW,XPS-M1730 $127.00

TP270 Module,Card,Network,3945 Inspiron,Most Of World 1 $.50

UN078 Module,Software,Windows Vista Os,Hypertext Markup Language GUIDE,World Wide $.00

UW429 Module,Keyboard,101,United States,M1730,Dell Americas Organization $23.70

UY392 Module,Information,Liquid Crystal Display,Cover,WCMRA Corsica/Gilligan/Sapporo/Yebis $.00

WK011 Service Install Module,Intel Matrix Storage Manager,M1730 $.00

WP008 Module,Accessory,Binder,M1730 England/english,Dell Americas Organization $14.82

WR336 Module,Software,VHP32,Digital Video Disk Drive,English,Dell Americas Organization $.10

WW439 Module,Label,Microsoft,WindowsVista Os,Premium,Small $.02

WX548 Module,Liquid Crystal Display 17WU,W/CMRA,M1730,SMSN $305.40

WX695 Module,Adapter,Alternating Current,230W,Delta - Ac Adapt World Wide $34.00

XD717 Module,Dual In-line Memory Module,2GB,667MHZ,2X1GB,512 $376.80

XG487 Module,Battery,Primary,80WHR 9C,SANYO $50.05

XM387 Module,Software,Roxio,Creator Dell Edition,9.0,TransactionalLine of Business $.01

XM544 Module,Software,PC-RESTORE Transactional Line Of Business $.00

YJ372 Module,Cable,S-VID,Sony Phillips Digital Interface Format,Mobile 2007,West $1.62

The price on that one is $2076.95 before tax

Why do I feel like I'm getting jipped? I've looked through it all, the processor they're sending me is suppose to be clocked 200MHz than the last one and helps with battery life, it's the same graphics card and I get 4GB of RAM instead of 2GB of ram, and a bigger hard drive.

Why such the huge difference in price?
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post #48 of 362
8/15/09 at 1:29am
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Originally Posted by Fgo View Post
Well they're finally "building" a new one for me and it's "In Production. Here are the specs

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[/b]Why do I feel like I'm getting jipped? I've looked through it all, the processor they're sending me is suppose to be clocked 200MHz than the last one and helps with battery life, it's the same graphics card and I get 4GB of RAM instead of 2GB of ram, and a bigger hard drive.

Why such the huge difference in price?
Dell's inventory pricing system fluctuates by the minute. I would complain and have them install the 8800 at build, because if you have issues later (and you will) they'll pull some bull crap about what the system was originally built as.
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post #49 of 362
8/15/09 at 1:58am
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Originally Posted by CrysDark View Post
Dell's inventory pricing system fluctuates by the minute. I would complain and have them install the 8800 at build, because if you have issues later (and you will) they'll pull some bull crap about what the system was originally built as.
I already have a service request number for an 8800 I had spoken to a rep and his manager before they lost my first 1730, he agreed they would send me am 8800 after I receive my laptop.
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post #50 of 362
8/15/09 at 6:58am
Old
http://processorfinder.intel.com/det...px?sSpec=SLA44

New
http://processorfinder.intel.com/det...px?sSpec=SLAP9

The new one is a slight downgrade but not much as you can see. You're also not getting an AEGIA Physx card with this one. Other than that, I don't see much missing.
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post #51 of 362
8/15/09 at 2:12pm
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Those sonsabitches.

I'm calling them; the CPU I don't really care about because its a .1GHz difference, but I want the physx card.
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post #52 of 362
8/15/09 at 4:47pm
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Yay win! The rep I spoke to was an idiot, it showed me the page of my old 1730 order that got lost, and he tried to tell me there wasn't a PhysX card in it, so I just copy and pasted it into the chat session and he's like oh....give me one moment to speak to my supervisor.

So I wait..
alala...
lalalala...

He's going to try to get them to add the PhysX card into the laptop, if that doesn't work they'll send a tech with the parts to intall it.

Win.
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post #53 of 362
8/15/09 at 5:33pm
I see that the venting out helps ;-)

Congrats on the good new.

cheers ...
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post #54 of 362
8/16/09 at 10:04am
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Originally Posted by Fgo View Post
Yay win! The rep I spoke to was an idiot, it showed me the page of my old 1730 order that got lost, and he tried to tell me there wasn't a PhysX card in it, so I just copy and pasted it into the chat session and he's like oh....give me one moment to speak to my supervisor.

So I wait..
alala...
lalalala...

He's going to try to get them to add the PhysX card into the laptop, if that doesn't work they'll send a tech with the parts to intall it.

Win.
NIIICE! Now go out there and enjoy the brick. One thing to be weary is that the size of the m1730 means it'll be pretty much deskbound.
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post #55 of 362
8/16/09 at 2:03pm
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Originally Posted by ganzonomy View Post
NIIICE! Now go out there and enjoy the brick. One thing to be weary is that the size of the m1730 means it'll be pretty much deskbound.
Oh I know, I had the gen 2 and the m1710. I rarely move it, and if I do it's for lan parties.
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post #56 of 362
8/18/09 at 2:25am
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Yay, I should be getting the beast tomorrow FedEx has the package
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post #57 of 362
8/19/09 at 7:35pm
so did you get it yet?
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post #58 of 362
8/21/09 at 2:51am
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Yes
And I see why they call it the beast.

Dell technician came and installed the PhysX card, now I'm just waiting to get the 8800GTX.

Something odd though, dell gave me vista ultimate x86(32 bit) but I have 4 gigs of RAM...so........

you do the math

Anyways I'm gonna contact them tomorrow to get Vista x64, but currently I'm using Win7 and loving it, everything seems to work so far.

Question for anyone if they know; since I have a dedicated PhysX card, do I just enable it by going into the nVidia Control Panel then choosing "Set GPU PhysX Acceleration"? Or is there some dedicated program or area of the nVidia Control Panel that I'm missing?
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post #59 of 362
8/21/09 at 11:08am
Good luck getting that 8800, they had to cancel my repair and build a new laptop because they have been out of stock on the cards for the past month.

I don't know how they are going to build a 1730 without an 8800 and expect me to accept it. Not without some cash back that's for sure.
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post #60 of 362
8/21/09 at 12:31pm
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They should just throw in the 9 series card then.
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