Latitude E7240 and E7440

This sounds about right for me. I am running Windows 7 on my E7440 usually on balanced or power saver plans. On battery, the fans usually stays off with casual browsing. If I'm plugged in, the fan does seem more aggressive, but I am also usually docked in that case, in which there likely is a different fan threshold applied by the BIOS.

 

Im looking at potentially buying a 7440 shortly (i5ori7/8gb/256gbssd/IPS) and im just curious, what kind of battery life are you guys getting doing general surfing after doing some tinkering in Win8?

Any tips on getting good prices on these? ive been watching the Dell outlet deals, but havent gotten lucky so far. Im aiming for one with a regular hard drive but with the IPS so I can use a 850 pro I have already

 

not trying to stir pot, but I need to know about reliability of this 7240 model. over on pc mag [I think it was] it had a favorable professional review, but a mixed bag of commentary. in particular this recent post [1 month] caught my attention. some issues are easily root-caused and corrected, others not so much. What has been your experience?
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I use one of these for work. They have some issues with their HDD and memory becoming unseated. I work in IT and they come back with those issues as well as I/O errors from the motherboard. I have also seen issues with the power supply becoming un-grounded. It seems like they didn't spend enough time making sure basic electrical practices were being used. In English, it seems like it got rushed to market and came up somewhat short. I would opt for an extended warranty to make sure you don't end up paying through the nose to recover data and/or hardware if you absolutely have to have this model"

 

This makes a nonsense of the thermal plans offered in the settings on Windows 7 as they make no difference whatsoever. The BIOS appears to be stuck on some ultra-safe "Cool" scheme when on mains power that assumes the people sitting in front of their machine all day won't mind listening to almost continuous fan noise.

I've been using a HP Probook 430 G2 this week at work, the fan rarely comes on and when it does it's barely audible. Hell, I've used desktops that were quieter than this stupid Dell.

To the previous post asking about reliability... The sheer number of random and repeatable driver/BIOS issues on my E5440 guarantee that I'll never buy Dell again. These are on top of the idiotic fan control I'm talking about above.

My impression is Dell pump out far too many new models each year, all engineered as fast and cheap as possible in the Far-East. BIOS issues take months to be recognised and fixed, if at all.

If my machine was properly engineered and tested I would be praising and recommending it but the great design, build, weight, materials, battery life are totally ruined by issues.

 

Youd be surprised to know HP is notcin any way better when it comes to fixing idiotic stuff via bios ;-)

Corporate users around me complain in the same manner as you do.

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But I used 3 HP laptops from 2006 to 2014 and had none of these stupid issues

All worked so well I never even updated drivers or BIOS and was never bothered by fan noise.

HP Probook I've got use of now just works, no random shutdowns, no wi-fi disconnects due to clashing BIOS, dock and wireless power management, no bloatware drivers causing CPU spikes, no endless fan noise at a fixed speed...

 

Hi everyone, I got my e7440 last ThanksGiving. it came with Windows 7/64bit and I paid a load to upgrade to MX100 512 G and 16G ram. I like it a lot in general.

However, there is something really annoy me right now

When clicking any icon/folder/button provided by the OS(Windows 7), there are random popping/cracking sound. Some click may trigger the sound and some don't. And this situation never occurs when I click button from 3rd party application like fireFox, Eclipse etc etc, even IE. This may be suspect the issue only happen to low resolution sound waves(which comes with Windows 7 OS)

This shouldn't happen to a high-end laptop from Dell in the year of 2015

I have reinstall Windows with minimal Dell driver(Just the wireless) and the issue still persists. Also I tried to tune up the sound configuration but not any luck. I go over threads but didn't find anyone with similar experience. But I can feel that many tech geek here can help me resolve the issue because u r awesome

 

You might want to get the speakers replaced to see if that fixes the issue. To repro the issue, you can play the sound repeatedly from the Sound Control Panel.

 

Thanks, but it feels like some software issue. I can play netflix or mp3 music for hours and no popping sound ever, but when I click desktop and try to open a folder then "crack!", there u go.

I do tried to play with the sound control panel with that testing sound, sometimes it cracks some times it does not.

 

Have you tried external speakers? The Windows sounds are short audio files in WAV format, so I'm not sure if it's a meaningful comparison.