BAD HARDWARE WEEK

What's causing Dell XPS 700 shipments to be delayed again, to October?
If Dell's online policy statement, and its subsequent excuses, can be interpreted accurately, their implication seems to be that the company can't get the parts it needs to build these systems. Parts availability - which has rarely been a problem for Dell in the past - certainly doesn't seem to be a problem for many of Dell's competitors.

Perhaps Intel has some problems with delivery of high performance dual cores? Or they don't want Dell anymore? Anyway, Dell customers will have to wait until October 16th.
Ouch.
And apparently some customer service representatives may have given some XPS customers the impression that their actual ship dates, when all the company's problems are resolved, could be late February.


LATEST: Problem Identified !
It's related to the installation of the cooling assembly. Now, this issue is contributing to the current extended lead times, because even though it has a very rare chance of occurring, we are delaying shipments until we complete testing of the resolution, and every system meets our reliability standards.

Now, can we speculate of the cause of that very rare chance of occuring? Perhaps it is the very situation when the proud owner of XPS700 would need to try its $5000 -8000 worth monster under extreme load.
And hmm, Intel's new architecture has no low power consumption tricks in its bad. Thus will reveal its ugly, hot, Prescott face below the hub? Of course, Intel will need some time, say to February until new generation of chips emerge. But at that moment Dell should have at disposal latest 65nm Super corers from AMD. Right? And the problem above would be autonatically solved.
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