Dell XPS M1330 Shipment Delays Explained

Dell has discontinued the Pearl White chassis color option on its XPS M1330 notebook, due to production difficulties. In addition, there are also part shortages, still causing shipment delays of this laptop, according to the post on Dell’s official weblog.

“You may have noticed on Dell.com yesterday we discontinued the Pearl White color. The reason is that we are just not able to produce the kind of volumes of high quality product that we need to support demand. It takes about 5 coats of paint to get the appearance we were looking for. We are working to ship white units that meet our standards to all customers who ordered them, but those may be the last of the units using the current process, as we continue to pursue alternate methods of producing high-quality white units,” the post says.

In addition, unanticipated part shortages also hold up Dell’s ability to ship this 13.3 laptop computer as planned. The biggest issue is the limited supply of LED backlight-powered displays, combined with “stronger than anticipated” customers’ demand accordingly.

In case of shipment delay, Dell will be contacting affected customers to let them know.

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[…] Dell officially said that “during the quarter, the company ran a higher-than-normal product backlog, driven by better-than-expected demand for the new Inspiron and XPS color notebooks, coupled with supply constraints for several colors, and a tightening in supply of certain flat-panel displays.” […]