I'm sorry to hear about the delay - waiting is the hardest part of this whole journey.

I Checked the phase online this morning at 7:30am.. it went up to phase 5 since last night.. I'm thinking.. ok cool, even with the backordered stuff its moving slowely but surely..
Then on a feeling i checked again at 10:15am.. BAM!!! jumped to phase 9.. whooohoooo..

OH MY GOD ...... 9:30pm i just checked the online phases...
ITS ON 14 .. It shipped !!!
from #4 to #14 in under 24 hours.. unbelievable.. i cant wait...

>.<, when I held my step over MJ-12m I decided to move it to Area-51m... It's shipped but I regret. I feel sorry about Quadro FX video Card...

Hey, by the way, please check my site out: http://www.QuadroFX.com!

Yes!

Hey Grant, great site

Good Luck in the business world.............

well, I'll tell you what looks a small number end up getting made and shipped out within a week, and another small number take a long ass time and then there is a small number that gets shipped out on their estimated date. and then there is a small number that just have to wait an additional week or a couple of days.

I unfortunatly was the last option on the above para. But I am close enough to the shipping date, but it soemtimes worries me when I see on this site an order that goes from phase 4 to 14 in 24 hours, what kind of testing will happen in 24 hours...that Doesn't sound very probable. if any problems occur, they have to consider them as minor. I would think...don't you?

whoo hoooo
8:16am - On FedEx vehicle for delivery....
its coming !!!! today is the day... get the camera ready !!!
im going to look out the window every two minutes

sweet

its here !!!! im going to go play... and give you all updates in a bit...
one quick question.. most laptops i have seen have a button to turn on/off the wireless... i cant find this... anyknow know ?

OK here is the scoop after the delivery.. (one semi-large problem, but fixed)

*****MARCH 31 Fedex delivered the system at approx 3:00pm****
- I unpacked it taking pictures of everything (great packing by the way)
- BONUS = free case.. i didnt expect that.. not very good quality though and i will probably find a better one
- outside inspection turned up no physical defects
- removed plastic protection from screen.. no physical defects
- pluged in power, ethernet, & mouse,
- turned on the machine, went through windows activation etc..
- did not see any bad pixels and the screen looks great..
- loaded virus protection, updated windows..
- I noticed i did not have a drive letter D: for the second hard drive (it went strait to the DVDROM)
after investigating this, the "my alienware pc information.xml" left on the desktop from the factory was also only showing one HD durring the testing which told me it was this way in the factory..

- I called Customer service at 7:00pm approx and told them the scenerio.. Customer service told me to look in the knowledge base and enter 3087 in the search box.. an article came up to see how to open the case and reseat the hard drives.. i told him i am not a tech person and am not qualified to do this and I did not want to ruin my warrantee if i broke something in the process of doing so.. He assured me i wouldnt break anything but i... i did NOT open the case..
(this whole conversation with him the phone decible level was very low, i could not hear the man well, and his thick accent was hard to descipher)

- He then transfered me to Tech Support .. He determined that the second hard drive was never formated.. he walked me though the process of activating the second drive and formating it.. drive now seems to be fine

- Email came in from techsupport @ 7:15am confirming our conversation

- next to load all the software and do some bench testing

Hiya. I've been reading several posts and thought I'd contribute to this one since I placed my order for an Area51m 7700 the day after cdh3.

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" WideXGA+ 1400 x 900 LCD Display - Xeno Grey
Processor: Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 530J w/ HT Technology 3.0GHz 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 NVIDIA GeForce™ 6800 Go with 256MB of DDR3 memory
Sound Card: Intel® High-Definition Audio (24-bit, 192Khz) with 7.1 surround sound
Hard Drive: Extreme Performance - RAID 0 - 120GB (60GB x 2) 7200 RPM ATA100 - Hitachi
Optical Drive One: 8X Dual Layer DVD+/-RW / 24X CD-RW Combo w/Software
Floppy Drive: USB Floppy Drive
Ethernet NIC: Integrated 10/1000Mb Gigabit Ethernet NIC
Wireless Network: External Wireless 802.11a/b/g PCMCIA Card
Modem: 56K Modem with V.92 Technology
Additional Battery: Area-51m 7700 Primary Lithium-Ion Smart Battery Pack
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

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3/15 - Order placed online. (realized i left XP Home selected after the fact)
3/15 - Called sales and corrected the OS issue no problem.
3/16 - Phase 3
3/20 - Phase 4
3/20 - Called sales and changed my mind about RAID 0. NonRAID now.
3/23 - Delay: 6800FXGO on backorder.
3/25 - Phase 5
3/29 - Phase 12
3/30 - Phase 13 and shipment confirmation.

It's due to arrive tomorrow. I'm giddy. I'll update when it arrives and once I've verified that it's one bad mother...shut yo mouth! I'm just talkin' about my lappy.

::update:: after reviewing my tracking info, it now appears that my little 5lb. box has made its way out of FL (its origin and intended destination) and up to Atlanta. The 30lb. box, or Little Three-Oh as I call it, has no updates since departure from The Bermuda Tri-i-mean Orlando. So... uh, super-dooper. Can't wait to see how this plays out.

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hey people...
I downloaded 3mark05 and did the bench test...
I got a score of 3069.. is this a decent score ? i have no idea...



Warranty: 1-Year AlienCare Toll-Free 24/7 Phone Support with Onsite Service
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional with Service Pack 2
Case: Alienware® MJ12m 7700 Case with 17" WideSXGA+ 1680 x 1050 LCD Display with Built-in Camera - Xeno Grey
Motherboard: Intel® 915P Chipset Supporting PCI-Express
Processor: Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 530J w/ HT Technology 3.0GHz 1MB Cache
Memory: 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 533MHz - 2 x 512MB
Graphics Accelerator: Alienware® MJ12m 7700 NVIDIA Quadro FX Go 1400 with 256MB of DDR memory
Hard Drive: Dual Drive Configuration - Non RAID - 120GB (60GB x 2) 5400 RPM ATA100
Primary Optical Drive: 24x10x24 CD-RW / 8X DVD Combo w/Software MPEG2 Decoder
Secondary Optical Drive: 8X Dual Layer DVD+/-RW / 24X CD-RW Combo w/Software
Floppy Drive: USB Floppy Drive
Modem: 56K Modem with V.92 Technology
Ethernet NIC: Integrated 10/1000Mb Gigabit Ethernet NIC
Wireless Network: Internal Wireless 802.11a/b/g miniPCI Card
Digital Audio Hardware: Intel® High-Definition Audio (24-bit, 192Khz) with 7.1 surround sound

Seems normal for a Quadro

6800go DDR3 will get you much higher scores though. The Quadro is not the ideal gaming GPU but it will do...

Congrats on the system

ok so im kinda hot that i cannot get the tv tuner that clevo said they sent alienware(I called clevo) but besides that i had the last model with the 3.2 ee and 1 gig of ram and only a 128 meg video card oh yeah and onlythe 15.4 ws lcd and this one stomps the crap out of the last one thanks fed ex for losing my rig. but any way i was just wondering what is the real differance between the 7700 and the m12 can any one help