<p>Any others concerned about the new Dell Latitude orders. Princeton had recommended waiting for the new Dell Laptops with the latest technology. The earliest you could order was Aug 5. We did that, and according to the website should have gotten a confirmation from Pricenton within 3 days and subsequently from Dell withing 7 buisiness days. Today is 2 weeks later and neither email has arrived. I called Princeton's SCI store and was told the orders have not been sent in yet, some problem with Dell. Since the delivery time was to be 2 to 6 weeks I am concerned they will not be available to the students until well after school starts (if then). SCI felt sure all would be OK, but they seem a bit naive regarding Dell. By the way calling Dell is useless without an order number.</p>
<p>If anyone else knows more, please post. Thanks.</p>
<p>Wow, I'd actually forgotten that I was supposed to receive the confirmation. Thanks for posting this: hopefully someone can share some concrete information soon.</p>
<p>You should get the computer delivered to the campus since it looks like you won't get it until after the semester starts. In the mean time it's not terrible to survive without a computer- there are clusters and libraries and since it is kind of SCI's fault maybe OIT will loan you a laptop to use while you wait.</p>
<p>There are also laptops in the reserve room in the A level of Firestone, if you don't want to be tied down to a cluster and don't have a computer. You can only use them in the reserve room I think, but it's a decent alternative to cramped computer clusters.</p>
<p>^ Thanks. My guess is that availability of the alternatives will depend on how many people are caught up in this relative to those who normally use those services.</p>
<p>It will take 4-5 hours to initially configure your computer to Princeton settings, so be prepared to be without your computer (in a working mode) for 1/2 a day. It installs everything itself, so no need to bring it anywhere, but don't be surprised at several restarts and your computer's screen being off and humming for a minute or two (it didn't crash!)</p>