1520 Ruby Red Waiting Room

Does anyone know how long before I get a tracking number?

 

****ing awesome... I just got DELAYED for a 5th Time. to 9/9.
Oh and again I get delayed...twice in the same day..now to 9/16!

First my car...now this? Whats next? Im getting highly stressed.

 

ThursdayLE, I feel really sad for you. I am not sure what could be holding your order. Everything in there is pretty darn gotten by everybody else on this forum and many of them ordered after you. Dell's inventory mgmt process needs to change. I think its starving your order.

But I have a feeling that you are within 1-2 days from going into boxing. At least, I hope so!

 

Thanks Devsk. I hope your right. I actually had to drop my Interactive media design class....because one of the requirements was a laptop. I rented this desktop. Oh, well. Thanks dell for DELAYING my education.( always have next semester ). I think ill just enjoy my extended weekend with my family back home....and not worry about this anymore. And get some gaming on my bros ps3 .

 

After reading all these posts im now preparing myself for a delay, I thought that 3 weeks was more than enough time to make a laptop, but im getting the feeling mines not going to be ready on time

 

Well,
I must be one of a lucky few. My laptop was delivered yesterday. After a night full of tweaks ( in-place upgrading Vista from Home Premium to Ultimate, and deleting bloatware-i.e. Roxio/Google Desktop etc.), and figuring out how to get the Bluetooth mod to pair with my stereo headphones (it's not obvious), I absolutely love it!!
My condolences to those who have waited longer, or are still waiting.

 

hey i ordered a RED too.
Order Date: 7/23/2007
Shipped Date: 9/1/2007
Est. Delivery Date: 9/5/2007-9/7/2007
Inspiron 1520, Intel Core 2 Duo T7100, 1.8GHz, 800Mhz, 2M L2 Cache
2GB
160G
6-cell Lithium Ion Prim
Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student Edition
Windows Vista Basic System

yeah long ass time dell! thanks jerks

 

Yeah...its getting so old.

 

FYI... it's just possible that DELL has a metric which measures their performance on how many "pushes" each customer receives. So, in order to minimize the pushes, they start using parts ordered for earlier customers to fulfill the demands for later orders. This minimizes the actual number of customers experiencing pushes, but sacrifices the older orders/customers. So not a true metric, but a number they can hold up and say "even through this, only X number of people were effected." Problem is, I'm one of the "X's".

Would someone care to comment?

Ordered 7/9
1st ESD 7/26
2nd ESD 8/3
3rd ESD 8/28
4th ESD 9/5
5th ESD 9/10
Status - in production waiting on 313-5400. Same part used on many other SHIPPED 1520 green notebooks which were ordered 7/16 or later (the magic no push date for DELL)

 

Thats BS because I ordered on 7/25 and Im still seeing tons of orders going out before mine.

 

I've had my ruby red since last Thursday and I love it. It was well worth the wait. No problems so far.

 

I wish I were as lucky as you. Its sad that I wish I was lucky to have the product that I paid for over 6 weeks ago.

 

that's the way I understand it too. I think its an unfair process. But it probably is more efficient and less costly.

 

Mine has just been shipped, and I will most likely be receiving it tomorrow. Thurs, if you dont get yours this week I would for sure call and complain, or do so in writing. I plan on writing a letter to Dell about the poor customer service we have received.

 

I got my ruby red mouse on saturday. Sure would be nice to have the matching laptop. lol

 

I received my RUBY RED 1521 today!!! So far anything is great, I love it!!!
Hope more and more of us will get their orders soon.

 

yey! that's good, at least i know somone now whos got the 1521 in the same colour and same processor!

 

.OMG!! I ordered the same F'king thing on the same F'king day and im still in build stage, day 42.

 

Well,
Back in the waiting room!
My Wi-Fi Catcher light won't work-shipped that way. No biggie but to replace it they have to replace the mobo! So I said ok, then thought about it, called back and told them I wanted to return it for a refund and the CSR said, "We will make it right sir, we will send you a brand new system-exact config as yours, and for your inconvenience, FREE upgrade to Vista Business, next day air shipping, and Dell Premium On-Call with Accident protection and LoJack."
So waiting on a new Ruby Red!!!
ESD 9/12

 

Your replacement is probably my laptop... Thanks.

 

umm,
Sorry

 

I want your guys opinions...should I change my processor to T7500 or just continue to wait....or reorder....

Can someone help me? Because Im not waiting another month or 2

 

Inspiron 1521 - Spring Green
Originally ordered July 20. The latest change to the shipping date is Sept 10. When I called them about 2 weeks ago they said the delay was due to the Green top. I asked if I changed it to black would it ship sooner. They said that they would have to cancel the first order and re-order the black one and that new orders weren't shipping until sometime in September (that was in early to mid August) so I kept the green color. September 10th - I'll believe it when I see it. They said they will refund the RUSH shipping charge because all of the delayed machines were going to ship out priority. It seems like they ought to compensate us for this aggravation by throwing in an extra goody or two but I don't imagine there's much chance of that.

 

I would just stick it out Thurs. I received my order today, but opted to re-order for a higher resolution screen for my preference. My ESD isn't until October 4th now. I think the 7300 is the best bang for your buck, as both your cache and fsb are upgraded. Although I must say prices have dropped slightly. I upgraded my screen (100 dollar upgrade) and went with the Intel wireless over the Dell wireless (-20 bucks), and my order only ended up being 35 bucks more including taxes and everything, for what really should have cost me 80+tax to upgrade

 

Check this out at the delloutlet:READY TO SHIP

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Operating System
Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium
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Memory
2 GB DDR2 SDRAM 677MHz (2 DIMMs)
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Hard Disk Drive
160 GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)
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Video
ATI RADEON Xpress1270 HyperMemory
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Software Upgrade
Microsoft Works 8.5
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Media Bay
8X DVD +/- RW w/dbl layer write capability
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Certified Refurbished
Certified Refurbished
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Base
Inspiron 1521 Notebook: AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-56 (1MB/1.8GHz)
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Hardware Upgrade
Integrated 2.0 Mega Pixel Web Camera
Integrated 2.0 Mega Pixel Web Camera
6 Cell Primary Battery
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Network Interface Card
Dell 1505 Wireless-N
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NoteBook Screen
15.4 WXGA Notebook Screen Display with TrueLife
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System Color
Ruby Red

 

OMG!! It says it shipped!!

No tracking number yet.

 

Why did you reorder after already recieveing your laptop? Are you in love with waiting?

 

Yup, just call me a sucker for punishiment Everything about my notebook is great, but I just prefer a larger resolution. Everything on my screen is too big right now I figure if I'm gonna be spending all this money on a notebook, I want to make sure its what I want. Another 100 bucks (or 35 as it worked out to) and another "months" wait will be worth it in the end I think.

 

Your not the only one waiting so long, i fear my date will slip again as the status is still in pre-production with just 9 days till sept 17th.

 

We may get delayed into November at this rate. Search the forums and theres an acrticle that says delays will probably last well into October-November.

As long as its here before Next Semester....or Christmas.....Easter......Memorial Day.....Labor Day......Before My 3rd and 4th years of college are over.

 

Aparently Im the last Ruby Red Left waiting again...on this site.

Guess Ill provide updates to myself.....day 46 in BUILD.

 

AHHHHHHHHH!!! I just called the Automated number and its finally in BOXING STAGE!!!!! I dont know for how long though...because I forced myself to stop calling the number...and I finally give into my withdrawls. lol! I was so happy I jumped up off my bad and cracked my head on the ceiling light fixture!

 

grats! won't be much longer for ya-my original order was in boxing 3 days(was the weekend). Still waitin on my exchange replacement, but love it so far!!

 

for ThursdayLE!!

 

Finally! ur getting somewhere ThursdayLE!

 

YES! It shipped today!

 

WOOHOO

 

Got mine Friday! Love it!

 

Im on it right noW!!!!!!!!! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

 

^ so im guessing that's a good review? lol

 

Again,

CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!
:smile: :smile:

 

Well,
Still waitin on my replacement for this one- "supposed" esd is 9/12

 

:laugh: well,

I guess it shouldn't have suprised me but-just got "the" call from Dell, blah blah blah, esd now the 13th, looks like they've switched from saying a week to day by day.

 

Anyone here hearing anymore news on there's? is there another red batch on the way? I'm reli hoping mine comes way earlier than the 2nd ESD now cause i just can't wait another 3 weeks

 

My replacement just got booted back 10 days today, after missing 9/13 shipping.
new ESD-9/27

 

Well, this is exciting! I'm up in Canada so our status reports are not as detailed as for US customers, but I saw that my "In Production" 1520 was shipped today! 18 days ahead of schedule!

Now we'll see how long it takes to get from Austin to the Great White North!

 

Things are happening faster than I had thought they would, which is a giant surprise. Today, my order status (linked from the email message that confirmed my order) was finally updated from "In Production" to "Shipped", and the estimated delivery date here in Canada was posted as 9/17.

The order status from "My Account" on the Dell site seems to be updated a bit quicker and with a bit more detail than that. While I think there's room for improvement in tracking builds for Canadian orders, any disappointment is now kind of taking a back seat to the anticipation of getting the machine early! I hope those who have been waiting longer than me will be happy overall in the end.

 

glad ur getting urs early tkc , loads of people have started to get theres before there ESD now so ive got fingers crossed ....

 

Mine says it should be delivered on October 4th which is roughly 3 weeks from my order date.... Hope it arrives on time....

 

Just checked the automated order status line and, shock of shocks, Ruby Red 2 (replacement for defective original) is in boxing with a " next-day air" ship.
We'll see!

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