->The official POST ABOUT YOUR NEW DELL NOTEBOOK thread. <-

[perrylyzr541]

So I just received my new M1530 today and I got to say that I'm pretty impressed especially when compared to the Inspiron 1520 I just returned. The midnight blue is much darker than the Dell site makes it appear, which is excellent (actually identical to the 1520's midnight blue). The fingerprint reader is very easy to use, and the hard drive noise is nothing compared to what people have made it out to be. I ran an initial 3dmark06 before I gave it a clean install, scores before are attached for now, I will attach more post clean install later. I also ended up receiving the lg monitor which is very sharp and bright, just beautiful.

[bees88]

Hello Everyone! I've been lurking here since I ordered my laptop, but I decided once it shipped I would post about it. Where's the love for the 1420s? Anyways, specs in my sig. I'll post again when it gets here, I'm sure. ^_^

[poteen]

XPS M1730 Core 2 Extreme X7900 2.8GHz, 800, 4M
17.0" UltraSharp Widescreen WUXGA (1920x1200) TFT Display with TrueLife with 2.0MP Web camera
Bone White
4GB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (2x 2G)
400GB (7200rpm) SATA RAID 0 Stripe (2x200GB)
XPS M1730 Backpack Carrying Case
DUAL SLI 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800GTX card
Ageia PhysX Processing Unit Card

Ordered: 1st of February
Expected: 26th of February.

Still in phase 2.

[zeth006]

XPS M1730 Core 2 Extreme X7900 2.8GHz, 800, 4M
17.0" UltraSharp Widescreen WUXGA (1920x1200) TFT Display with TrueLife with 2.0MP Web camera
Bone White
4GB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (2x 2G)
400GB (7200rpm) SATA RAID 0 Stripe (2x200GB)
XPS M1730 Backpack Carrying Case
DUAL SLI 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800GTX card
Ageia PhysX Processing Unit Card

Ordered: 1st of February
Expected: 26th of February.

Still in phase 2.

No surprise....the current XPS M1X30 seems popular these days. I'm a little jealous of you guys, but still happy at least about how the Vostro 1500 looks on paper.

[CROiga]

Hi guys,
I just got my M6300 with x7900 2,8 Ghz and 4 Gb of ram,Quadro fx1600m...and I want to share my results with you....

few thoughts first:
I love the screen,... (WUXGA 1920x1200 non glare)very bright, suitable also for outside work, almost zero reflection, highly recommended

Keyboard, only one word - great, it would be nice if the people in Dell integrated keypad, but I wont cry about it...

Noise level: what noise,.. it`s so quiet, even with all fans working full

heat: no problem also,.. even after one hour of hard benchmarking it was cold as ice, a few degrees above room temperature

I read on some forums about whine noise coming from inside notebook ( various Dell models), I locked myself in toilet with M6300 and heard nothing (I was listening for 20 minutes)

the looks: some says it`s ugly, but I love it,...

CONS: nothing really , ok,.. they could put the microphone in the unit

the results:

Cinebench 10 (render time with both cores was 2:44)


3Dmak06 online results:


SPECviewperf 10 (Vsync OFF)


Maya-2 test (Vsync OFF)


Sandra Processor arithmetic


Sandra Power Managment Efficiency


Sandra Processor Multimedia


Sandra Multi-Core Efficiency


hen picture fully load up , R mouse click and choose "ZOOM", you can than zoom and pan into pic

[poteen]

XPS M1730 Core 2 Extreme X7900 2.8GHz, 800, 4M
17.0" UltraSharp Widescreen WUXGA (1920x1200) TFT Display with TrueLife with 2.0MP Web camera
Bone White
4GB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (2x 2G)
400GB (7200rpm) SATA RAID 0 Stripe (2x200GB)
XPS M1730 Backpack Carrying Case
DUAL SLI 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800GTX card
Ageia PhysX Processing Unit Card

Ordered: 1st of February
Expected: 26th of February.

Still in phase 2.

Updated to Phase 3 today. Gogogogo!!!

EDIT: What the hell.. They bumped me back to Phase 2!

[zeth006]

Haha, poteen. Sorry to hear that. You should call 1-800-433-9014 to check your order status by phone. I've heard that it's often a bit more updated than online.

For me...all I can say is...WOW. Ordered on the 30th of January, 2:30am in the the morning (which would be January 30th 6:30pm in Malaysia). Order status was in production until just now. Called using the number above, automated voice said order was BOXED. I go back to the website 10 minutes later, order got SHIPPED. Dell must really be working on customer satisfaction!

EDIT: It was shipped to the carrier according to the automated phone service. Dammit! It looks like I'll be anticipating it arriving ON TIME instead of ahead of schedule!

[poteen]

Yeah I was called up yesterday by the guy who help me configure the laptop and said they had a problem confirming my VISA (it was a problem with their system, not my card) so he had to cancel the current order and make a new one which means I basically lost 3 days.. The new order is in Phase 2 (no surprise).

He DID say however, that he was sorry for the inconvenience and that he would mark the order as a "priority" order so it should be delivered even faster than before.. At least thats what he said.

Lets see what happens.

EDIT: Congratulations on your coming laptop btw (Also, disregard the PHASE 3 in my sig.. )

[zeth006]

Yeah I was called up yesterday by the guy who help me configure the laptop and said they had a problem confirming my VISA (it was a problem with their system, not my card) so he had to cancel the current order and make a new one which means I basically lost 3 days.. The new order is in Phase 2 (no surprise).

He DID say however, that he was sorry for the inconvenience and that he would mark the order as a "priority" order so it should be delivered even faster than before.. At least thats what he said.

Lets see what happens.

EDIT: Congratulations on your coming laptop btw (Also, disregard the PHASE 3 in my sig.. )

Thanks!

But dude...it's great they're prioritizing your shipping. I'm sorry to hear you had to get it re-ordered. But I STILL say I'm jealous of you people, haha. Your CPU is one generation newer than mine, even as mine is one of the last of the Santa Rosa line. Yours is one of Penryn's first...it comes with that integrated memory controller that taps into the RAM's clock speed up to 800mhz if the RAM supports it. Your graphics card is going to be a killer, SLI!!. 400gb hard drive is crazy. To top that off, you got the limited edition bone white color. I think that might explain any potential delays you might encounter. Judging from the size of your screen, the power of the processor, and the new graphics card, I'd say you're getting a gamer's machine.

So...how much did your laptop come out to?! I paid just over $800 for mine, but the 4gb upgrades for me should come out to $30-70 depending on whether I decide to salvage my 2gb RAM stick or just get an entirely new 4gb and use the 2gb as a carrot bonus when I sell my laptop.

[poteen]

Well, while it's true that my coming laptop will be extremely fast - especially with the xtreme processor, the SLI 8800 GTX and the Raid-0 solution then I'm pretty sure that the extreme processor is the Santa Rosa and not the Penryn (unfortunately).

But I think the laptop came out around 5000$ (I bought it in Denmark and converted to euro it was ~3.300€).

It's alot.. ALOT... But when I set mind on getting something I can't rest until I get it