Rampant Speculation on the XPS 700

re: Rampant Speculation on the XPS 700

OneBadCard — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:26:46 GMT

Dell, if you treated your corp. customers the way you treat your retail customers, you would be out of buisness before you could say "customer service". I placed my order 3 months ago, and after waiting for 2 months, I ordered the same system thru my companys sales rep, and guess what.., I received the system ordered thru my companys sales rep yesterday, and my retail order is "in production"... Sad commentary for a company that sells themselves as a customer orientated manufacturer.

re: Rampant Speculation on the XPS 700

alliancekilr — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:04:47 GMT

concerning custom configurations, has anyone attempted to turn on/off the front headphone/mic jack? when i removed the xfi card and corresponding cable, the front jacks no longer work. there is nowhere for this cable to plug in to the board. also, on a friends system with intg sound, he doesnt even have this cable. i have the same cable on mine that connects the front I/O to the board. is there a jumper/switch or a software switch to change this?

re: Rampant Speculation on the XPS 700

Loyal Dell Cusomter — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:15:12 GMT

I have bought a total of 4 Dell PC's in the past.. and have had problems on and off but trusted Dell's service. Now I am planning to purchase the XPS 700 and hear about all these negative comments ...so subsequently I am having second-thoughts about my initial decision. Out of all honestly, I like the look of the XPS 700, I like the possibility that it is almost silent,, and the performance test reviews from other pc mags over here in aus dont look all that bad. All i think is that Dell should lower the price, seeing as one can simply but a full functioning system for the same price. Dell really needs to reconsider what they want to give to the consumer.. and if they honestly want to lose a segment of their consumer market then whatever... their loss. Make it cheaper. Be nicer to your customers...

re: Rampant Speculation on the XPS 700

C0r3y — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 20:26:21 GMT

What exactly makes the Dell nforce 590 NOT eat 800mhz DDR 2??
I seen plenty of reviews with nforce 590 boards and PC6400 memory in the test setup.
Why Dell? can you explain?

re: Rampant Speculation on the XPS 700

Fred — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:59:23 GMT

CacheSyntax,

You said to spoon that "it dies down to the point of no noise at all". Mine arrived yesterday and clearly it's either something wrong with it or we have very different definitions of "no noise at all", but I find the noise ABSOLUTELY UNBEARABLE AT ALL TIMES.

I'm not just talking about the shockingly loud jet engine hurricane you get whenever the nForce drivers are not loaded (I sat through hours of that while reinstalling Windows last night), but the idle sound as well. It's not loud, but it's a nauseating subsonic hum mixed with an annoying whirr that drifts in and out of sync. You can actually feel a slight vibration through the desk and floor.

The XPS 700 product manager said: "our engineers spent two straight months doing acoustic testing". So, two months, and the end result is a sound that at worst sounds louder than an old vacuum cleaner, and at beast just leaves you feeling slightly sick?

The performance of this thing is really the only good thing about it, but that's thanks to Intel and NVidia. Dell's contribution was a noisy and heavy fridge for the components. I can't even begin to describe how disappointing it was to wait for 3 months and pay through the nose only to get this NOISE. NOISE. NOISE.

re: Rampant Speculation on the XPS 700

Steph — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:05:08 GMT

Like Fred , i feel cheated by Belgium's Customer care service of Dell.

Ordered the XPS 700 system back on 28 june and been reordered with 2 core Duo upgrade to "accelerate the process of shipping" saying the girl of customer service i've got on phone.

Shipping date was this 8 september and yesterday the date changed to 30 october !!

People who have ordered at 11 august get their comp working on the 26 august and i'm still in preprod !!

How can a guy order month after me get his computer before me ?

Dell is clearly playing the lottery with the queue system

re: Rampant Speculation on the XPS 700

Firestorm — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:40:32 GMT

Not a Fiasco. Then what do you call a Fiasco DELL?????

re: Rampant Speculation on the XPS 700

Lionel_Menchaca — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:30:16 GMT

Fred: Please re-issue a comment with your order details and e-mail (not to be published). Thanks.

re: Rampant Speculation on the XPS 700

test4echo101 — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:51:02 GMT

1. Cross Platform compatiblitiy. Thats the 1st part of the nightmare.
2. Product line competition is the other nightmare. (XPS 600 vs XPS 700 vs XPS 800 and so on)
3. 3rd party licence agreements is the final nail (hopefully) in Dells coffin when it comes to "Ultimate gaming rigs"

For one. For Dell to publically admit that a High End $3500 + machine must be crippled to allow a $499 machine to be "compatible" is INSANE.
They have lied, mis-led and ignored thier customers to keep this INSANE business strategy in motion.

For another. The Dell XPS 600 CAN AND WOULD support the C2D AND the 7950GTX AND the 800Mhz bus as easily as a bios update.
Why are they leaving the XPS 600 users in the cold?
Not because its an EOL product. NONONONONONO
Its because if they allow the XPS 600 to fully realize its potential, then the need for XPS 700 becomes MOOT.
Plain old greed is the culpret here.

Finally, Dell has an agreement with Sonic. And many others.
For dell to cripple retail componets purely to keep thier "SOFTWARE" partners happy is, once again...INSANE.

I want my XPS 600 (and you 700 customers) to be able to realize the FULL UNCRIPPLED functionality of our very expensive systems.

Will it happen? I doubt dell will help at all.

But rest assured, there is progress being made by some folks that will allow a Bios update on these systems. How would you like voltage control on the Nforce4? The C2D is very much a possibility on the XPS 600.
7950 support? Not sure yet.
Ntune support? Yep.

Stay tuned.....

re: Rampant Speculation on the XPS 700

BrandonN — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:31:20 GMT

Mine's IP!