I think it depends on availability of the configurations of your laptop. Its better to ask the person you deal with.

did you ask at lyp? normally retailers with ready stocks (if you need stock configs only), you can do cod on the same day.

congratulations

it's fast when they have stock.

out of curiosity may i know how much you paid for 2 years extension

im using an m17xr4

Dell send me an email quoting rm600 for 1 year and rm800 for 2 years and they say that price changes everyweek this one is valid till friday only then next week different price , not sure getting cheaper or more expensive. Maybe follow dollar rate or something.

Extended warranty is just for parts and it's next business day like usual. Also you can only call during office hours, etc to their support line if I'm not mistaken.

You won't be able to get the equivalent complete cover like you would have if bought new. So I'm not sure how worth it the extended warranty is. If you're going to use the machine for longer, probably necessary with the rate of failures.

yes, i guess it's much better to get extended warranty at the point of purchase at Dell Malaysia, because from what i've read, that's the only way to get a complete cover. they only offer part-only and nbd in the warranty extension after that point.

The extended warranty covers accidental damage as well like water damage, drops..
But it doesn't cover the goods being stolen as it's not an insurance after all
(i believe previously complete cover was offered on top of those options; wonder why it was taken down)

go for it..really great machine.  i upgrade myself to ssd drive. super fast response

my signature listed bro..intel 335 240gb. plan to upgrade 500gb. need save a bit. anyway my boot up improve a lot fr stock hard drive. the 64gb msata as storage now also not enough. haha

for ssd upgrades, you can do it yourself. you can restore the system with alien respawn, or you can do a clean install.

for common usage and gaming, consumer grade ssd's should suffice. the sweet spot in terms of size, performance and price for now imo is 240gb range. if you have some extra money, go for 500gb or more. (it's a one-time investment that lasts you long enough; so i think you should get whatever largest possible). any decent brand/model will work well (samsung, intel, plextor, crucial, corsair, transcend, sandisk, etc.).

ssd's are for OS, apps, and games. for storage and downloads, you can use the stock hdd.

i have no idea. i never used it before. i saw my friends used it to create recovery media, but that's it.

fresh install imo is much better.

wow.. thanks man i just realized that we do have those. sorry i didn't pay attention to the contents in the box. i just took the laptop, power adapter, and cable out and left the rest untouched.

maybe with respawn it can restore all oem branding stuff. sorry i am not that sure.

jeng jeng jeng.. 800m notebook drivers get listed already (now only 820m)

AlienRespawn can be used to restore ur laptop to factory state, which means a full backup of your system based on factory settings. Very handy for those people who doesn't want to start from scratch.
There's a recovery disc included together with the laptop other than manuals and the above mentioned.

But to all Windows 8 Alienware users, u only can use AlienRespawn for another drive as long as it has a bigger or equivalent sized capacity. Lower capacity drives will fail during the process. For example, if ur laptop comes with 750GB HDD and u want to use AlienRespawn for a 120GB/256GB/512GB SSD, the respawn process will fail. The software will inform u that ur drive must be 750GB or more in order to proceed. The only way to move over to lower sized SSD is to use cloning software which breaks ur AlienRespawn.

For Windows 7 users, it might still be possible. I was unable to try this because my system arrived with Windows 8. According to forums, it works but need someone to test it out.

The other alternative is to call Dell to send u a copy of the AlienRespawn image based on ur requirements but this might incur some costs. Not sure about the price.

i'm on w8.1 (single language and pro). i am used to it since 8. no issues with clean install, and the games that i play (bf4 mainly).

upgrade means in-store upgrade? that one i never tried before. i did a clean install then call MS to reactivate my copy (key quota exceeded limit).

i bought the premium then baru realize that dlc do not have new campaigns :/ (but damn the scenes are so nice).

i use hwinfo64 only. i don't use widgets haha!

no you don't need to pay for it; it's free for existing legit w8 users (like you and me). to me yeah it's supposed to be a service pack; but there are apparent but minor differences between the two. (for instance, no more wei score checking)

you can use this trick to download and keep a copy of iso file for later use

http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-576083...indows-8.1-iso/

edit: note - this is an upgrade-only iso; meaning you need to install w8 then upgrade with the media.

i can do clean install because i got mine from a friend who has access to msdn (or technet i forgot). alternatively, grab the untouched version online.

can we just call dell support center to come and format for us ?

well to be frank, yes it is a pain doing it the upgrade way. maybe there is a trick to do this less painfully :/ (i didn't research about this yet)