Hi Maziar! Is your laptop working fine?

Hi Maziar! How's your laptop doing?Checked out a couple of indian sites and lots of people are having problems with 8600 and 8400 graphic cards on dell laptops.Dell is not offering any solution except a bios update which increases the fan speed and thus
ineffect delays the inevitable death until the warranty runs out.
There's no word on whether fresh orders have the problem sorted
at the hardware level.Maybe Tom's Hardware should ask Dell what
solutions they are offering.Me and 4 more friends will not be
buying xps1730s cause of dell's attitude to its existing customers.
What a shame, I read your xps review and was very keen on getting myself one and now this.

Really sorry 4 u pal.I won't buy xps .Gonna go in for assembled pc.

You may want to look @ SAGER NP9262

Maz's problem is not that Dell isn't honoring the warranty or isn't willing to replace the defective product, it's that the unit he bought wasn't sold in Iran so he went out of country to get it. If he wants an warranty work done on it he has to send it back to the UK. Dell is not the only company having issues with their cards, this is something that is plaguing a wide range of cards come from a multitude of companies.

To Lostandwondering-
No offence pal,its just that Dell's attitude is bad-Instead of acknowledging
the problem they offer bios updates which just increase the fan speed and delays the unevitable death.This covers them until the warranty runs out and then they charge u for repairs.Thats not fair,if a part is faulty is u replace.PERIOD.Furthermore all nvidia gpus are faulty including 8800s which Maziar has got and not just 8400,8700 and 8600 which dell wants u to believe.Its just that a minority has has 8800.Dell should atleast tell its customers(including pottential would be) that no defective gpus would be supplied.Me and my friends were planning to buy xps1730 after reading Mazier's review.Infact I told them about xps1730 and they agreed.They would have probablly killed me if their brand new $4000 laptop went up in smoke.Believe me I was a big fan of Dell and and I thought my first laptop should be Dell's best. But now no way.

Thanks Maziar, but if sager conks off then what

Actually, I'm the one apologizing now. I hadn't read all of the stuff that Dell had put out about the GPU issue. I did not realize that the BIOS update only changed the fan speeds. That does indeed suck.

Sager notebooks are actually just rebranded Clevo models. If you can find a Clevo reseller near you, then you'll be getting the same hardware, just not the support of said company. I highly recommend Clevo's notebooks, they're built very well, and have excellent cooling capabilities. I have a Sager NP5793, aka the Clevo M570-RU. It has an 8800m GTX and it's still kicking strong after several months of use. It can handle anything. I made a review on the notebook, it's in the forum someplace...

Here she is!

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] 793-review

Ugh, I feel for you Maziar, that's terrible. Damn... I don't suppose you can convince Dell to pay for your shipping right? I can't remember what their warranty is.

Is there an account somewhere on the forums of why you hate IBuyPower?

To- Ihateibuypower- good thing your order is delayed,u can check out with sager.
To Maziar- u spent so much money so no harm in spending a little more in
sending the laptop back to england.Worse comes to worst u will pay for shipment thats all.Add it to your laptop purchase cost.That way amount spent on laptop won't be a total loss.
To- frozenlead- thanks a ton for your help pal but clevo is not available here and moreover if I order from America ,it would be very expensive.I have decided to go for a new desktop and will check out dell in a couple of months.

Thats sad, Really feel for u.I am planning a new desktop and will only have
a look at dell xps1730 once they get a new config.-hopefully ati mobility cards.By the way what do u think of them?And should I go for a ps3 instead
of a new desktop.And suggest a new desktopcard.

worminator,
to people considering buying ibuypowers i have expressed my opinions . basically, terrible experience with them and all of my friends have had terrible experiences with them. well, one friend, with multiple ibuypowers for the family. very long list of complaints, dont feel like explaining right now haha

Building a "Hackintosh" isnt easy and also it wont be as good as original.

Also i think u are wrong,u say i can play WINDOWS GAMES on LEOPARD?

Hahah, I've heard some stories of IBP that aren't so pretty too.

And talking about Hackintosh, my room mate tried to install OSX Leopard on his HP laptop, and ended up messing it up pretty bad, because OSX didn't have the drivers for most of his system components, and for some reason his machine refused to recognize the Windows partition after, so he couldn't even use the dual boot to save himself. *laughs*