<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">well, <div>I just acquired a 250 GB SSD and I have a dell latitude laptop (vintage 2013). I know what panel to remove to gain access to the HDD and ram, but my fingers aren't sufficient to find all the necessary bits to remove so that I can install the new drive.</div><div><br></div><div>anyone willing to help?</div><div><br></div><div>I am thinking of running it concurrent to the old style HDD in there (or at least until I can order a second one and have a dual boot SSD setup).</div><div><br></div><div>-eric</div><div><br><div><div>On May 23, 2018, at 2:47 PM, Stephen Partington wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I have dealt with latitudes for a while. The NVIDIA systems worked great with hybrid graphics (thanks to bumblebee!) but the one i had with a radeon GPU lost its gourd any time i tried to use the AMD GPU. I think the drivers are just better for nvidia in this regard.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Makes em want to dual boot linux on my laptop again....</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 2:13 PM, Matt Graham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mhgraham@crow202.org" target="_blank">mhgraham@crow202.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 2018-05-23 10:22, Jerry Snitselaar wrote:<br>
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On Mon May 21 18, Stephen Partington wrote:<br>
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I have found that intel/AMD hybrid laptop combinations are a real pita<br></span>
to work with and get all of your hardware running. [...] Intel has<span class=""><br>
embraced Linux pretty well of late so aside from hybrid soft raid it<br>
all works.<br>
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Intel has one of the largest kernel teams of any company right<span class=""><br>
now. They do a pretty good job at getting support for their hardware<br>
into the kernel as quickly as possible<br>
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<a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/hybrid_graphics" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.archlinux.org/ind<wbr>ex.php/hybrid_graphics</a> says the hybrid graphics parts should be doable. At least that's what I thought you meant when you said "intel/AMD hybrid". There are also a lot of references to fooling with various settings ("AHCI mode in the BIOS") to get a spinny-disk + M.2 setup (hybrid soft RAID?) recognized properly. I don't know for sure though, never tried to install anything on one of these.<span class=""><br>
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Any idea what Dell systems you were having trouble with?<br>
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Yeah, we had many poweredge machines, and only one of them ever had any real trouble with Linux. I think its hardware was flaky. For every other machine, just install, configure, and it ran until the {disk, fan, CPU, NIC} pooped out.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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