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I received my M1210 within 3 days, including weekends, guess that's the benefit of owning Dell laptops for 7 years...

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babydoll79 said:
But they will usually call 1 day before delivery? Until now I receive no calls. And under the Delivery Status, it's still in progress only. :(

I'm so excited for it to come :s22:
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You can try calling the hotline to check

It's more accurate than the webby thing
 
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Between me and my relatives, we own 4 Dell notebooks:

Dell 700M, Dell 6000, Dell 6400, Dell 9400

None gave problem for the last few years.
 
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you guys reali giving me the assurance for my purchase. :)

I hope they'll deliver within these few days as I'm on leave.
 
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li_chenwei48 said:
You can try calling the hotline to check

It's more accurate than the webby thing
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Just spoke to them. The notebook is still in 'building' stage and they are only assembling the small components :yawn:

But I must say their CS is pretty impressive!

I guess I'll be reading my library books instead of playing my notebook these few days :(
 
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li_chenwei48 said:
Nope

Dell uses Thermal Pad, Pad not paste on the North Bridge and GPU while using paste on the CPU. As shown here

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I removed all and use my own paste

But ya I know it takes time for it to set
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I oso got a XPS M1210. Can u teach me how to overclock it? Thanks!
 
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about 2g free ram

hey all, todays Dell offer 2gb ram free but how come the price of 1520 go up le?...
 
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alanhsieh said:
May I know which settings did u apply? Did the new settings hang or cause any error msg to appear? I am oso using ge7400 for my xps m1210:) Any overheating problem encountered so far? Thanks!
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I went 500Mhz, 1100Mhz

You can apply the setting and untick "Set to when my computer restarts" to test, but the build-in test function work fines.

Heat is not an issue, been Overclocking it for 10 months and sometimes gaming for 5-6 hours straight.
Only problem happened 2 months back when my max CPU temp went 90 degrees, called Dell to do a fan + sink replacement. Apparently the whole entrance of the fins of the sink been clog by dirt. Other than that, nothing else.

You probably may want this fan/temp uility to monitor and control the fan speed

http://www.diefer.de/i8kfan/index.html
 
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Flaemstr said:
hey all, todays Dell offer 2gb ram free but how come the price of 1520 go up le?...
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i believed they had some small pricing error in the mth of July for the inspiron models.
For example my 1420 ordered in E/June during the launch was more expensive than similar configuration in early till mid July...ie the price was dropping while I was waiting for the arrival !!.

if u want good bargain,,,,wait till end of the mth COMEX show,,,they will probably throw in free delivery, 2 GB ram and maybe even 3 yrs limited warranty.
 
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cracker said:
i believed they had some small pricing error in the mth of July for the inspiron models.
For example my 1420 ordered in E/June during the launch was more expensive than similar configuration in early till mid July...ie the price was dropping while I was waiting for the arrival !!.

if u want good bargain,,,,wait till end of the mth COMEX show,,,they will probably throw in free delivery, 2 GB ram and maybe even 3 yrs limited warranty.
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It is not pricing error, Dell dynamically changes their prices according to their supply/inventory.

What I call as pricing error is when I got my M1210, I set both package, the basic and the configured one to my ideal spec. And it happened that 1 was more expensive than the other
 
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I am also interested in getting 1520, but if i am scared that if i wait until comex for good offers the delivery time will be too long.

I am leaving the country near the end of september so i at least want to play with it so that in case got problem i can go bang table.
 
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freakybird said:
I am also interested in getting 1520, but if i am scared that if i wait until comex for good offers the delivery time will be too long.

I am leaving the country near the end of september so i at least want to play with it so that in case got problem i can go bang table.
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You can only bang ur own table, cos Dell got no re-seller & dealer.

Wait for comex, current offer not attractive at all.
 
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cheong79 said:
You can only bang ur own table, cos Dell got no re-seller & dealer.

Wait for comex, current offer not attractive at all.
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i guess he likes to bang this own balls :s13: juz kidding :s22: Happy 42 years old, Singapore!!!
 
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