E4300 + Windows 7

So I finally decided to give my notebook some Windows 7 love, and I must say, I really like it so far.

Windows 7 runs amazingly on this machine (specs in sig). Though, it ran fantastic with Vista as well.

Despite my overall good experience thus far, there are a few things to note:

1) The webcam. Yeah, it works fine with AIM and what not out of the box, but I'd like it if Dell released an official Win7 driver + Win7 Webcam Central to better support the Latitudes.

2) The Ambient Light Sensor. It's a bit wonky under Win7, so I've left it disabled for the time being and manually change the brightness when needed. Again, I'd like to see Dell release a Win7 version of the ALS Utility found under their Vista drivers.

Other than those two things, I'm a happy camper with my new OS.

 

Yeah, I can't seem to get the ALS working in Windows 7

 

I've not tried using the ALS - I prefer to manually control the display brightness and I don't have the backlit keyboard.

Everything else for the E4300 + Windows 7 64bit seems to work fine.

John

 

Yeah, the experience so far has been awesome.

 

I have been running Win7 64-bit on my E4300 for a while now the only complaint I have is that if I turn full virtualization support on in the BIOS I have video problems where the screen looks like it doesn't always refresh properly. It looks like a mess and is unusable so I have to turn virtualization support off. I don't like this option because I want to use XP-Mode. Has anyone else run across this? Is there a fix?

 

Sanjay, we've run across that with our E6400's when they have 3gb of ram. The machines with 4gb work fine. I'm guessing there is something wonky going on with the memory sharing with the video card and the un-matched memory.

 

I'm running with virtualization support enabled just fine, though I have 4 GB of memory.

 

Dillo187, thanks - I do have 3GB - did you just upgrade or did you ask Dell to make it work and have them send you 2gb stick? In other words, is Dell accepting that this might be their problem? or do you think I'm stuck paying for it myself (not that it's a lot of $, but it's the principle of the thing you know.

 

I didn't originally order the machines with 3gb, they came with 2gb. I had a bunch of 1gb sticks around that I used to up them to 3gb. After discovering this issue, I just ordered a bunch of 2gb sticks to replace the 1gb sticks to bring all of the machines up to 4gb.

Dell might send you 2gb of ram, but I'd be surprised if the time it took you to talk them into it was worth it over just buying one.