Received the same… I’m starting to think this is part of their marketing… the anticipation is insane… almost like water-boarding level of torture…
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August 16 - ordered
September 21 - preparing to ship
September 23 - Charged and shipping soon email
I hope this gets here before the weekend - I’m in Philly, so just a skip from the NJ warehouse (Barring the typical FedEx shenanigans).
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If you had told me this 2 days ago I would have no idea what you are talking about as I am still in high school and didn’t know about this till yesterday haha. But yeah I agree also the anticipation is huge.
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My card charge went through today, after a brief back-and-forth with the bank when it triggered their fraud detection (all good now, phew).
So:
Ordered August 25th
Preparing to ship email Sept 21
Charged and shipping soon as of Sept 23
Delivery is to the Toronto area, so we’ll see how cross-border goes.
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Sorry for not updating sooner, but I got my laptop two days ago! so far I’m loving it, although I am missing the dedicated GPU that I am used to. The battery is also a bit all over the place, but I’m sure I can get it working smoother wish some system editing.
My only complaint is that I really wish they didn’t use fedex, it was delivered two days later than they estimated, and on top of that the box had a giant dent in it, like they just tossed it into the vehicle with no regard to what was inside. thankfully it was packaged very well and nothing was damaged inside, but the box was half caved in.
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Ordered mid-July (1165 version) without RAM, SSD, or OS. Everything worked perfectly on arrival. Took a few minutes to put together, standard Windows install times, and driver install. Great laptop. Really impressed with the screen, keyboard, accuracy of the fingerprint scanner, and webcam. Already recommended to several people and they’re ordering.
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I have also received an email today showing that my order will ship within the next 1-2 days.
I placed my order on 9/9 for a diy laptop with the i7-1185G7 and 6 expansion cards including a 500gb ssd.
The balance has also been withdrawn from my card.
Pretty excited.
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They billed me two days ago but not for the full amount? Apparently I still owe $180. No idea why.
I still don’t have an order confirmation yet. At this rate, I’m getting the laptop at the end of October (customs in my country is intentionally delaying packages 3 sometimes 4 weeks). Ah well.
Are you using a freight forwarder?
Finally got mine today, here is the config, and timeline:
Config:
DIY i7-1165G7
Intel® Wi-Fi 6E AX210 No vPro®
USB-C Expansion Card
USB-A Expansion Card
MicroSD Expansion Card
HDMI Expansion Card
No RAM or Storage
July 30: Ordered
Sep 7: Preparing to ship your batch
(Sometime in between): Added an extra USB-C expansion port. Took support about 2 days, guessing they were hammered during that time.
Sep 13: Preparing to ship your order
Sep 14: Your order is shipping soon
Sep 15: Order has shipped, ETA Sep 23 EoD.
Sep 23, 5PM: Fedex says it will be delayed 
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Sep 24: Expected delivery EoD, but in late evening, they updated status again.
Sep 25, 5 PM: Order delivered! 
Everything seems to be reasonably well so far. Pleasantly surprised by the key travel on the keyboard! The expansion ports seem to be REALLY tight though. Even though I press the button for release, I have to pry them out using a pen.
Encountered bugs:
- Could not get into boot menu because I had quiet boot screen turned off.
- Could not get into boot menu again after installing Linux (I dual boot windows/Linux). Had to power down the machine completely, and then come back to it after few minutes, and then it worked. Guessing that this is a Known Issue?
- Still need to figure out how to easily change the default boot partition. It is not very obvious at the moment.
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what is quite boot screen?
thanks
dan
Everyone that received the “Order shipping soon” email last week, has anyone received the ship notification?
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Nope. Not yet. I’ve been charged the final balance though.
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So far I have been told it’s shipping in 1-2 days 2 days ago. I’ve been charged the full amount. Just waiting for it to actually ship.
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