U330 has ZERO Windows 7 Driver Support...

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It's quite sad... we have asked Mark on their official forums for when the drivers will be available, and what kind... no response.

I love mine, wonderful machine. However, driver support, Lenovo's reluctance to 'fix' the BIOS and to admit the battery controllers chips are all dolly-doo sort of screw with what is a fantastic, durable laptop.

 

It hasn't even been released and yet you still expect drivers?

 

There is definitely not the same sort of active (and public) drive support as compared to thinkpads. However, the consumer market is not as inclined to test next generation OSes as a potential business user might be.

Just wait until it is released like ZaZ implied.

 

Geeks and enthusiasts play with new flavors of OSes. As you said it is RTM; not a retail release yet. Just chill.

I know business purchases are usually xp. I am a business user. I am just saying Lenovo is more inclined to cater to updates to the thinkpad market because some potential testing that business oriented purchasers may want.

You can use vista drivers too. Most should work.

Also they have no requirement to you to release drivers for an OS that they are not shipping machines for yet. Just wait a month or two...

 

Even sony doesn't offer any windows 7 drivers for its Z, it's a more than 1700 dollar machine.

You might get a laptop without switchable graphic next time

 

I know what RTM is. That doesn't mean it is sold at retail currently and doesn't necessarily make it as odd that the OEM wouldn't be providing driver support. Just because Lenovo has gotten the RTM copy doesn't mean they have to instantly offer driver support. Does lenovo ship windows 7 yet?

 

Because they do not ship it on that laptop so they can decide whether to release support drivers currently or later. You're just mad that they do not support your laptop. That is perfectly fine. I am just saying that why should you completely expect support if the laptop doesn't even have windows7 shipping with it. We've established that Lenovo pays certain attention to the thinkpad brand. But just because lenovo does some specific thing to the thinkpad brand doesn't mean it will reflect in the consumer line.

Just because lenovo has code and now the RTM doesn't mean they have to release anything. Now if they were shipping systems with windows 7 of course you'd expect driver support to be available online to those who want to upgrade themselves. But that isn't the case at the moment so just be patient.

 

sony z is not a featured windows 7 notebook.....???

http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/os...VGN-Z790DIB&month=&day=&year=&mdl=VGN-Z790DIB

The reason u330 does't leak out driver early because it's very hard to make drivers for a switchable laptop, like a sony Z.

The other reason is, u330 is a consunmer market notebook. If you are a early bird, why not buy a business class instead of consumer class.

Seriouly, please give me examples, where other companys have been released windows 7 drivers for consumer notebook ?

I know my dell e4200 has some, but my studio xps 16 has none offical.

 

BTW, the reason sony Z doesn't list in MS webpage, because SONY Z is a buisness class notebook, most business class notebooks don't list there.

Does it mean those notebooks are going to lack on windows 7? I would say no.

 

The Vista drivers don't work.

We know it's consumer-class. But the switchable graphics drivers haven't been updated for almost a year now (even for the bugs in them), even though Lenovo says they update consumer drivers if there are bugs.

What we want is word that the drivers will arrive. None has been shown yet. Because you need them to effectively use this laptop (even no 64-bit Vista drivers).

 

That's valid. That's different than expecting lenovo to have windows 7 drivers out right now.