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Dell XPS 17 – **updates**

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**Updates on bottom**

Well, it has been several days since I placed my order, and I have nothing new to report besides the waiting. I will update every day till shipment 🙂

4/11/2011 Pre-Production/In Production
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4/22/2011 Finalizing Production
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4/24/2011 Shipped!!

Delays for 4/23/2011:

NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 555M 3GB graphics 10 days
NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 555M 3GB graphics with TV Tuner 10 days
1.28TB (2 x 640GB 7200 RPM HDD) 22 days
640GB 7200 RPM SATA HDD with 256GB SSD Dual Drive 2 days

The forums I follow:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/dell-xps-studio-xps/

Quick update(s):

4/19/2011…
I called my epp rep and he stated everything looks ok to go.

4/21/2011…
I just received an email and it looks like the 3D glasses were shipped! I should get them pretty soon!

4/22/2011…
Looks like my XPS is in the process of being shipped!!! I called the rep and he verified, plus I was given a tracking number. Nothing on the tracking side yet, just “Shipment information sent to FedEx.” Interestingly enough though, its being shipped from NJ – so it appears I could get it in a day. Maybe tomorrow?? We will see while I keep checking tonight.

4/23/2011…
The glasses came – there is a mini unboxing in a another post. However the XPS is still in the fedex limbo – “Shipment information sent to FedEx”. I hope to get it pretty soon!

4/24/2011
It shipped!!! I will have a video on when it arrives!!

dell

Dell XPS 17 on the way…

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Well, after debating about what to get, I think I found what I looking for….the Dell XPS 17.

Here are the specs:

225-0587 XPS 17
317-6215 2nd generation Intel Core i7-2720QM processor 2.20 GHz with Turbo Boost 2.0 up to 3.30 GHz
317-6203 6GB,DDR3,2 DIMM
331-1414 Backlit Internal Keyboard – English
320-1986 17.3in FHD WLED TL (1920×1080) 3D
421-3642 Basic Stage
421-3874 Camera Software 2.X, Factory Install
320-2335 NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M 3GB graphics with TV Tuner
342-2251 1.0TB 500GB 7.2k HDD x 2
318-0432 Elemental Silver Aluminum
421-1737 Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English
421-0757 Skype VOIP Application
420-9691 DataSafe Local BackUp
330-6222 Windows 7 Label
420-6436 PC-Restore, Dim/Insp
420-6576 DELL WELCOME,Software Dimension/Inspiron
421-0092 DELL-DOWNLOAD-FLAG
420-9876 Cozi-Calendar
421-2086 eBay Webslice
318-0392 Windows Live Wave 4
331-1416 Resource DVD (L702X)
421-4118 WHITEPAGES.COM,Webslice
421-4289 Dell Support Center Software 3.0
430-4038 Integrated 10/100/1000 Network Card
410-1883 Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.0 Multi-Language
318-1064 Tray Load Blu-ray Triple Writer (reads and writes CDs, DVDs, BDs)
318-0434 Roxio Creator Starter, FI
421-4550 Power DVD 9.6, 3D
318-0138 JBL 2.1 Speakers with Waves Maxx Audio 3
317-6214 Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230 and Bluetooth 3.0
410-9452 McAfee Platinum, 30 Day, MUI
312-1182 92 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery
410-0487 Microsoft Office Starter: reduced-functionality Word and Excel with ads. No PowerPoint or Outlook
939-4150 Dell Hardware Limited Warranty, Initial Year
939-4160 Dell Limited Hardware Warranty Plus In-Home Service After Remote Diagnosis, Initial Year
994-3700 Accidental Damage Service, 1 Year
950-9797 No Warranty, Year 2 and 3
412-0358 Soft Contracts Consumer Accidental Damage Agreement
420-8878 Soft Contracts Dell In-Home Hardware Agreement
933-0410 Warranty Support, Initial Year
988-0099 To activate your online backupaccount, go to Start, Programs, DataSafe Online
927-2357 DataSafe Online 2.0 2GB
421-4356 Software, DataSafe Online 2.0 2GB
430-3893 No Mobile Broadband L501X
421-4600 Recovery DVD for Windows 7 Home Premium OS, 64bit, English
906-3539 3rd Party Guaranteed buy-back program Dell customer’s Notebook for a guaranteed percentage based on time and condition
466-8143 Plant A Tree – Workstation Offset
462-3235 Thank you for choosing Dell

I originally placed another order, and it had the 640 GB HDs, however cause of the delays, I cancelled that order and did the 2x 500GBs.

My EDD is 5/10, but we will see when it ships.

Microsoft

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 now out…

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Just to let everyone know that Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 are now out and you can get them from the following links:

Download SP1 RTM EXE (32-bit) (537.809 MB)

Download SP1 RTM EXE (64-bit) (903.196 MB)

Download SP1 RTM ISO (32-bit & 64-bit) (1953.3 MB)

Thanks to askvg.com for getting those links. Also, I have them over at mirror.jmckee.net as well if anyone is interested.

Computers

Many new things that happened

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Last year was a pretty big year for me in a sense that I found out that I will be a father soon. Granted there was some other things, but this definitely takes the cake. Other than that, I have a had a few interesting moments.

Just recently someone cracked into this server and accessed the www portion of this site and added a few directories. Nothing major, just a few scripts, and a other things. The DB was never accessed and the user was walled in. I have already reported them a few days ago to the authorities and thats being taken care of as we speak. Now why didn’t I say hacked? Cause quite honestly, I don’t consider using a automated system that does a brute force/directory attack a hack. That will change soon enough though and oh, the user account has been changed…so good luck next time 🙂

Another thin that happened is one of my HD finally kicked the bucket and thats why I am in linux right now getting everything from the drive. Why linux? Well for one, I know how to use it pretty well for data recovery, and two, its not freezing every 2 seconds trying to page/access the files. I have another HD from WD on the way to replace it, but I need to implement another solution cause I see another HD’s SMART values are starting to go down which mean drive failure soon 🙁 I had a 20MB hard drive last me like 10 years, but yet I can’t get any new HD to last a few years.

One more thing, I have to fix the site in regards to the pictures not being displayed. Sorry for that and that should be fixed soon 🙂

Downtime

Site errors

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Sorry all for the errors. Apparently part of the OS was corrupt due to a power outage a few days ago. I didn’t notice this till now when I was doing some maintenance on the server. The file system has been repaired and everything should be ok now 🙂

If you see any issues, please let me know.

PS I know I haven’t been posting much, but I have been very busy with work, and a few other things.

Car, dell

Too many issues

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I know I haven’t been blogging that much :/ I just been so bust with quite a few things. First thing is I added another HD to my NAS, which is normally easy, but I ran out of ports on the MB for SATA, so now I have either get another motherboard, which is not the best solution, or just get a add-on card. I plan to get the add-on card, however I am trying to figure out if I should go with a software solution, or a hardware.

Secondly, my small dell laptop I had was starting to over heat on me. It was clean as a whistle, however it was just hitting around 70C on both cores. Granted it was a small laptop, but still – that isn’t a good temp. So I called Dell and they sent someone to fix the laptop. So the tech comes over for the repair and after the install I noticed both cores are doing a bit better, however now I notice that the wireless switch is stuck. To make a long story short, the wireless switch was broken by the tech who put in a new motherboard. So they sent another motherboard, but it was DOA, so they decided to send out another system! It was upgraded in a few ways – processor, memory, and SSD drive, however I was having some wireless issues. So I proceed to open up the back wireless cover to take a look. This is what I saw:

I then had no choice but to send back the laptop to the Dell depot to get repaired. Around a week later the laptop came back, but now it has a hairline scratch on the back LCD cover. So then I call and get that part from Dell and I repair it on my own.

The last thing that happened was the fact I traded in my modded high HP car for a more economy car. Granted I will miss it, but getting around 28 MPG+ on the highway is awesome instead of 19 or so 🙂

So hopefully that is it for a while 🙂