Inspiron-XPS

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Has anyone received their Inspiron XPS yet? Mine is supposed to arrive Monday (3/8). I ordered the Extreme with 1 GB of memory and the 60 GB 7200 HD. Otherwise everything else was standard.

KevDA · Answer

@Rick_Conover wrote:

Has anyone received their Inspiron XPS yet? Mine is supposed to arrive Monday (3/8). I ordered the Extreme with 1 GB of memory and the 60 GB 7200 HD. Otherwise everything else was standard.

Mine's supposed to arrive Wednesday (3/10) - but I'm not holding my breath. Same specs as yours.

Rick_Conover · Answer

Hi KevDA: According to UPS, delivery will be Monday to my office. I was not supposed to get it until 04/01 - 04/05. What gives with the super expidited delivery date? Rick

TucsonJohn · Answer

Mine was Shipped today and is supposed to be here Monday 3/8 also

KevDA · Answer

@Rick_Conover wrote:

Hi KevDA:

According to UPS, delivery will be Monday to my office. I was not supposed to get it until 04/01 - 04/05. What gives with the super expidited delivery date?

Rick

I don't know for certain, but I can make a guess. I was checking the Order Status forum a little while back, and they had some pretty long lead times on anything with a P4 Extreme. A few Dimension XPS customers were worried about this, as it looked like they weren't going to get their boxes for a while. Then all of a sudden one of them said their order was shipping (weeks ahead of the estimates), and Samantha from Dell said it looked like they got some P4 EE chips in.

So my guess is Dell and Intel worked something out on getting the chips quicker, which in turn makes the turn around shorter.

Of course, I could be wrong, so don't take this as carved in stone...

TucsonJohn · Answer

I was asking a collegue about this and she said that there is a high demand for the EE Chip and its going to be hard to keep up with the demand

TucsonJohn · Answer

I did want that EE, but after looking at the bench marks and asking some friends of friends who have friends that know someone that they sat next too once. It really isnt worth the 800.00 if it was 150.00 or less, why not

KevDA · Answer

@TucsonJohn wrote:
I was asking a collegue about this and she said that there is a high demand for the EE Chip and its going to be hard to keep up with the demand

Makes sense. Probably higher demand than Intel was expecting, given the price premium.

lapyramid · Answer

So.... it's 3/8.  Has anyone received their XPS yet?

TucsonJohn · Answer

Nope, I called UPS and they said it would be here tomorrow.   Im wondering if this is a Corporate tomorrow or a New York Tomorrow

gadgetgirl · Answer

Hi...just thought you might like to check this review and benchmarks for the XPS: http://notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=17849

TucsonJohn · Answer

I like that review both good and bad.

RandomTrend · Answer

thanks for the link gadgetgirl i'm still waiting for my feb27th order...

gadgetgirl · Answer

You're welcome. I'm still waiting for mine too. I ordered it the same day you did. When is your ship date?

RandomTrend · Answer

@gadgetgirl wrote: *snip...................When is your ship date? yer kidding right?... thats pretty cruel of you... j/k april 8th....43 days later

gadgetgirl · Answer

Yikes! Your date is as bad as mine. (Mine is supposed to arrive 4/7 - 4/9) I bought mine as a birthday present to myself...so I guess I'm celebrating belatedly.

Please let me know if your status changes. Thanks.

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