E series Latitude

I have the E6400 and my friend has E5500. The machines are good.

It has only one major problem. VERY VERY POOR SPEAKERS. The speaker quality is one thing which will give you a shock.

You cant even listen to a you tube video or listen to a video presentation, without have to touch your ear to thee speaker grill.

However i have read the review that all speakers in current Dell notebook models are BAD. So all other things being equal Latitidue E series is best among the rest.

We have a batch of E4300 laptops for a client that have impressed us a lot. The form factor is excellent if you want a small laptop. The screen resolution is a limited to 1280 x 800 which is normal for this size screen but the quality and brightness are excellent.

The build quality seems very good and the features and ports are very well thought out.

Daniel

Does the e4300 come with  windows XP?

I have a requirement for dvd, small screen, xp

It should ... most business Dells have downgrade rights where XP is preloaded

even though i asked for my e4300 to come with XP it game with Vista and the Vista CD!

ive managed to dig out an old dell XP cd loaded that on, then slowly getting all the drivers, but im stuck on two devices in Device Manager! (audio device on high definition audio bus & broadcom USH)

Ive tried looking for drivers for both, but running out of luck at the moment, can anyone point me in the right direction for these drivers? (and before anyone asks the audio device, ive tried the IDT driver on the site, I have sound but it still flashes up in device manager!. As for the broadcom thing im totally lost on that as the NIC is Intel)

cheers

Hi there,

The Broadcom device is likely the biometric scanner and the driver is part of the Dell Control Point Security found under applications section of driver page. There are two files for security, the smaller filesize is the driver set, the larger file is the application itself.

J

i looked into it a bit more and i managed to get the broadcom device working, after installing a load of dell contact point application it worked, but still got the audio device on high definition audio bus that needs a driver or application.

That driver is on an HDMI folder created by the Intel video driver (yeah, really intuitive!!)

Thank you, this problem was driving me crazy, I'm glad I checked this forum.  It also solved yellow exclamation symbols on the Mobile Intel (R) 4 Series Expres Chipset Family under the Display adapters!