O.T. Dell M6300 Shipping Delay(s)

Hi,

My company ordered a Dell M6300 notebook workstation on 9/24/2007. Nothing odd, in fact it was one of the Dell "specials".

It had an original ship date of 10/5/2007.

After that date came... we got an email saying it would ship on

10/16/2007...

After that date came, then we got an email saying there was a delay and it would ship on 10/22/2007...

Out of the blue, we got a call from Dell, and it is now scheduled for shipping on 11/27/2007! Two months to deliver!!!

I have never ever seen Dell delay building and shipping like this... we have many Dell (and HP) machines and all shipped on or before the "promised" shipping date.

Has anyone else seen this or have an M6300 (or whatever) on order and seeing these delays?

I went to HP and even their Notebook Workstations seem to take two or three weeks to deliver as well... What is going on in the industry to cause this? I was given a reason from Dell that all of the glass used in smaller LCD screens is in shortage due to the larger LCD "home theater" systems using up resources... HP did not have this problem as of a few weeks ago because someone there forecasted the demand problems... Dell did not. But now both seem to be caught in this "problem".

Just wanted to know if anyone else has had issues.

Thanks,

Aron

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Aron (bacsdesign.com)
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This concerns me because I am on the verge of pulling the trigger on buying a M6300 of my own. The extimated delivery date I got on the web site when I configured my system on 10/16 was 11/6. I'll keep an eye on this-thanks for mentioning it.

I wish there were another manufacturer besides Dell that put nVidia quadros in their notebooks, but the Dell is the only one I found like that.

jk

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John Kreutzberger

I thought Alien sold one equiped this way?

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J. Carroll

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Nope. I just checked again. All they offer is a Geforce 7956 Go card. With

512 mb, probably OK for gaming, but not a quadro. After compromising on the vid card with my last notebook, I just don't want to do that again.

jk

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John Kreutzberger

The Bastards! LOL They make the claim of being the "King of ALL NVidia". I definitely like their overclocked desk top boxes. Ooh La LA....

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J. Carroll

I ordered a Dell M6300 and had in my hands in about 6 days (I've have had it for about 2 weeks). When I ordered the Dell website stated a

2.8 processor would delay shipment. I ordered the 2.2 so that didn't matter. I did order upgraded RAM (2 gigs), upgraded 9 cell battery and upgraded true life 1920-1200 screen. It's been working very well.
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robrrodriguez

Please give us a heads up as you get used to it as to how well it works out.

Windows XP?

Thanks - Bo

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Bo

Rob,

When did you buy? Recently?

Sounds like the same system... we got XP instead of Vista, 2 gigs, and

1920x1200 true life, 9 cell, plus a dock (it was a bundle)... we added nothing else. And I had not one warning of "would delay shipment"... what a cluster f&%#.

By the way, the M90 we have has a second monitor attached (24" SOYO - good reviews too) and it runs at its native 1920x1200 - wow it is nice... Office Max has the SOYO 24" LCD's every now and then for $300. The SOYO LCD stand sucks, but just get an external LCD arm... niiiice.

Aron

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Aron (bacsdesign.com)

This sounds like the exact same problem my coworker went through just a couple months ago with dell. He was trying to get a laptop for his daughter who was going away to college. They did the same thing and kept calling him out of the blue to say it would be delayed a month or two. Well, he wanted it before she went off to school because he didn't want to have to ship it to the dorm for obvious reasons.

After a lot time spent on the phone with dell, he just ended up cancelling his order abd going to best buy and picking one up. Dell did give him like a 50 dollar coupon or something though for his trouble.

Don

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dvanzile3

I am getting 3 of these with a one week delivery in Canada

HP nw9440 Mobile Workstation Mobile Intel Core 2 Duo T7400 2.16GHz 2GB DDR2

100GB DVD-Writer

Graphics Controller nVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M 512MB

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Anonymous

"John Kreutzberger" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@corp.supernews.com:

Lenovo (formally IBM thinkpad) puts the nvidia quadro card in their thinkpad t61 models. I have the older T42 with the firegl card and like it alot. Pretty reasonably priced.

See at

formatting link
Von

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Von Pearsall

Thanks for the link, Von. Interesting, but I'm kinda hooked on the 17" display I have on my current notebook. However, if I'm going to dock it here in the office to my new flatscreen, then I suppose the 15" display would work for going on the road.......

Worth some thought.

jk

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John Kreutzberger

Yes. I don't remeber the exact order date but it was around October

1st. Definately the 1st week in October.

I'll be writing a full system review on my blog shortly. I ordered witn Win XP Pro (32 bit).

I almost took the same docking station bundle but decided I'd purchase that at a later date.

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robrrodriguez

Does anyone know if the electromechanical interface of the M6300 docking station is the same as the M70 ststion? I have accumulated two M70 "D/Dock" stations (Model PD01X)and would like to use them with the M70 and a new M6300.

Thanks,' Art

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Art Woodbury

Art it is the same box. I ordered an M6300 and also a D/Dock docking station to go with it. The model number on the bottom is PD01X and when I ordred it from Dell it said it was for the M70/90 or M6300 so I think you should be fine with what you have.

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GG

Thanks VERY much! That saved me some $$

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Art Woodbury

I have the exact same problem, and can hardly believe it. I ordered an M6300 T7700 2.40 GHz on 9-25-2007... was supposed to get it within 21 days... on 10-21-2007 I received a message that the order has been delayed, and will only ship on 11-27-2007... last week on

11-23-2007 I got a message that the computer has not been shipped yet, and probably will not be shipped any time soon. I couldn't believe what I was hearing -- can anyone tell me what could cause this to happen, and if they've heard of similar situations in the past?

Thanks, Ofer.

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ofercohen.prnd

In this world of just-in-time manufacturing, I'm surprised there aren't more delays. All it takes for a line to "go down" is one non-redundant supplier to fail to deliver. And that supplier may depend on another and another. It's a very fragile supply chain.

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BobCP

BobCP, do you know of a direct e-mail or phone number at Dell whom I can contact to see what can be done here?

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ofercohen.prnd

I've bided my time and not said anything of recent times, but the last month's events have proven very interesting to me and maybe it will be of use to some other SolidWorks users.

I've elected to "stay put" for now on Laptops, in spite of my M60 being a bit "old", because the options are becoming wider, & the "cost" of my latest "PC" was $189, which is what I paid for the Mac Leopard Family Pack for the latest OS release out about a month back.

I am using a 15" MacBook Pro 2.16 Ghz with WinXP using Boot Camp w/ Mac's Leopard 10.5 OS, and the performance and usability for my simpler smaller 3D CAD work is just great (& this is a 2 year old Mac laptop). It is no worse than my M60, but I've not timed anything in any formal way.

From what I've seen, it will not be long before I cease using a Dell at all and run all Windows stuff on my MacBook Pro. The only concession on the Mac that I make is using a small external PC keyboard if I know I'm going to do a lot of work. I also use a small

3 button scroll wheel mouse from RadTech whenever I do any CAD work.

The negatives of doing what I do are slight, but the positives are that I don't have to buy and maintain two $4k laptops, and I don't have to lug 2 of those damn things around. Windows can also be run, if only for non-intensive uses, as a program inside Mac OS X 10.5 using virtualization with Parallels or VMWare.

The real issue that makes running Windows on a Mac a BIG plus for me is that I can "sandbox" the Windows running native on its own partition or in virtualization, and I never have to let it on the Internet except for one time to register, and thus I never have to leave Anti-Virus and so forth turned on. I have had virtually (not a pun) ZERO downtime with this setup. I actually enjoy using Windows in this environment, because it never hangs or crashes, though SWks does ocassionally quit, but rarely (still using Swks 2006).

Given that Apple is likely to announce a 13" high end laptop this January, I may upgrade to that laptop, as it is supposedly going to be about half the weight of the current MacBook Pro. Given what I've seen elsewhere, if I need desktop performance, I can get it with a MacPro Desktop machine, as some other users have noted.

What I really care about is not wasting time. Given that Apple gives me the flexibility to chose what OS and how I run it, I feel that they have successfully bridged the gap on performance for higher end uses, and ease of use, coupled with the Mac's own OS & Application features, many of which I like over other products I've tried.

I'm truly glad Apple is making hardware and software with a heavy attempt to make it easier for the user to achieve higher performance out of their computers. It is working.

Bo

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Bo

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