Lucas Darling

I just checked my order status for the 569238th time and it says it will be here tomorrow!

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excuse my ignorance but...WTF is <3 ???

It is a heart that is rotated ninety degrees.

Thanks, I am hoping for an early arrival. However, Dell had cancelled my order on the first day and I had to call the next day and talk to some Japanese lady for hours - it took her 15 FULL minutes to understand what I wanted on my nameplate, Darling, L...simple enough, but not for her. Hopefully that won't hinder my ship date too much, I would be devastated haha.

Brian, did the preliminary ship date say somewhere around 5/24 for you? That's what it was when I ordered it and I find it quite strange that it takes over 20 days to build a computer when they have no shortage of parts.

I just ordered mine as well

System Color Space Black Anodized Aluminum

Operating System Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit

Processor Intel® Core™ i7 2720QM 2.2GHz (3.3GHz w/Turbo Boost, 6MB Cache)

Memory 4GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1333MHz (2DIMMS)

A/C Adapter Alienware M18x 330W A/C Adapter

Display Panel 18.4-inch WideFHD 1920 x 1080 WLED

Video Card Dual 2GB GDDR5 AMD Radeon™ HD 6970M - AMD CrossFireX™

Hard Drive 1TB RAID 0 (2x 500GB) 7200RPM Solid State Hybrid

Nameplate Personalized Plate (Darling, L.)

AlienFX Quasar Blue

Adobe Reader Acrobat SW Adobe Acrobat X Reader

Optical Drive Slot-Loading Dual Layer Blu-ray Reader (BR-ROM, DVD+-RW, CD-RW) with Roxio Creator 2011

Sound Internal High-Definition 5.1 Performance Audio with SoundBlaster MB Software

Wireless and Bluetooth Intel® Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 a/b/g/n 3x3 MIMO Technology and Bluetooth 3.0

Automatic Updates Automatic Updates: Critical Updates Only

Hardware Support Services 1 Year Basic Plan

Factory Installed Games Steam and Portal™ Factory Installed

Factory Installed Games World of Warcraft Preinstall Edition

Factory Installed Games Eve Online, Factory Installed

OS Customization Alienhead Chrome Blue

Green Plant A Tree - Notebook, Netbook, Laser & Inkjet Printers, LCD Monitor Offset

WirelessHD Internal 60GHz WirelessHD Transmitter and VIZIO XWH200 Universal Wireless HD Video and Audio Kit

Standard Nameplate Trigger Standard Nameplate

I also added the backpack since I will be needing that for traveling/school often. Newegg has some HyperX 1600mhz 4GB memory that I am about to order four of, too.

Total: $3751.95 before EPP discount.

I simply cannot wait until it arrives!

...in twenty days:45:

Here you go

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I don't think anyone has an issue with the starting price; like Brian said, the upgrade prices are far too high. The processors are at their usual prices, but the XFire 6970 should not be $900, RAM has always been strangely overpriced ($300 for 1600mhz 8GB - but there is no 16 or 32GB so it will probably be updated), and the Momentus XT Hybrid retails for $30 less than what they offer. Maybe it is me, but one should not say this is normal.

The M18x is on a whole other level vs M17x-R3. The M17x-R3 FEELS cheap and you have to be extra careful not to damage the rubber coating on it. With the M17x-R2 and now M18x, you won't really need to worry about that since it's an all metal construction. Plus for movies, M18x will have a subwoofer so they will sound that much better vs an R3 or R2. I can't wait to order Avenger...in red My first red system.

I never understood why they offered red and not silver/white. I don't think I could ever buy a red one because - OCD kicking in here - most of the colors from AlienFX won't match it or maybe me being colorblind adds that effect

Not knocking red really, I think it looks great, but I feel it limits the AlienFX.