m51 7700 Phases takes 3 days

My phases experience couldnt have been any faster.

At 7PM EST Tuesday 5/3 I ordered:

[1] Area-51m 7700

Warranty: 1-Year AlienCare Toll-Free 24/7 Phone Support with Onsite Service
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional with Service Pack 2
Case: Area-51m 7700 Case with 17" WideSXGA+ 1680 x 1050 LCD Display with Built-in Camera - Xeno Grey
Processor: Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 550 w/ HT Technology 3.4GHz 800MHz FSB 1MB Cache
Motherboard: Intel® 915P Chipset Supporting PCI-Express
Memory: 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 533MHz - 2 x 512MB
Video Card: Area-51m 7700 ATI MOBILITY™ RADEON X800 with 256MB of DDR 3 memory
Sound Card: Intel® High-Definition Audio (24-bit, 192Khz) with 7.1 surround sound
Hard Drive: Extreme Performance - RAID 0 - 80GB (40GB x 2) 5400 RPM ATA100
Optical Drive One: 24x10x24 CD-RW / 8X DVD Combo w/Software MPEG2 Decoder
Floppy Drive: USB Floppy Drive
Ethernet NIC: Integrated 10/1000Mb Gigabit Ethernet NIC
Modem: 56K Modem with V.92 Technology
Mobile Transport : Alienware® Premium Backpack XL
Optional Display: No Monitor
Free Alienware T-Shirt: Free Alienware® T-Shirt - Black
Desktop Enhancements: Exclusive AlienGUIse Theme Manager
Free Alienware Mousepad: Free Alienware® Mousepad
Automated Support: AlienAutopsy: Automated Technical Support Request System

[1] Free Shipping Mail-In Rebate; on Alienware systems excluding peripherals - Continental U.S. Only
[1] Free Alienware Premium Backpack; with purchase of a Mobile Desktop System
[1] $500 Instant Rebate; On Mobile Desktop Systems
[1] Special Financing Offer; 90 Days Same As Cash Financing with the Alienware Credit Card
[1] $100 Instant Rebate; On the ATI Radeon X800

Ordered 5/3/05 7PM EST

Phase 2 allmost all day Wednesday 5/4

Phase 9 jumped to Phase 9 late Wed night 5/4

Phase 10-13 ended Thursday afternoon ~3PM 5/5

Shipped Fed EX 7PM EST Miami Florida 5/6

Left Fed EX Orlando FL 11AM 5/7

Estimated delivery 5/13

I expect delivery 5/10-11 based past Fed EX shipping patterns.

I am now "paying" for a 3 days phase game....

I wish I hadn't been so smug in my OP.

2 boxes shipped to me on 5/7 a 30 pound one and a 5 pound one.

Guess what arrived today?? my 5 pound free backpack..

The backpack shipped an hour after the laptop.

and... Fed Ex tracking probably won't tell me much untill late tonight as to my chances of delivery tomorrow.

If I could have changed one thing about my order it would have been to Call AW and ask to have my 7700 shipped 2 or 3 day Air Fed Ex.

AW shipps Fed Ex Ground Home Delivery.The guy that brought the box today is in a completely diffrent division of Fed EX NOT the regular Business fed EX that comes to my house 3-5 times a week ( I work from home).

Anyway with 20-20 hindsight would it have been possible to get faster shipping? Use my Fed EX account??

Whew!! Thanking all who read this in advance for feeling my pain.

All will be well in just about 24 hrs (<--inside refrence) !!!