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

 

I thought Alien sold one equiped this way?

 

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.

 

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

Windows XP?

Thanks - 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

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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?

 

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

 

Apple has an advantage in having few Laptop models & limited options
where they seem to ship consistently fast, without delay, except when
a model change is imminent.

Bo