I can get access to an iFixit kit. they are immensely handy in working on a laptop. On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 7:37 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: > well, > 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. > > anyone willing to help? > > 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). > > -eric > > On May 23, 2018, at 2:47 PM, Stephen Partington wrote: > > 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. > > Makes em want to dual boot linux on my laptop again.... > > > On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 2:13 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > >> On 2018-05-23 10:22, Jerry Snitselaar wrote: >> >>> On Mon May 21 18, Stephen Partington wrote: >>> >>>> I have found that intel/AMD hybrid laptop combinations are a real pita >>>> to work with and get all of your hardware running. [...] Intel has >>>> embraced Linux pretty well of late so aside from hybrid soft raid it >>>> all works. >>>> >>> Intel has one of the largest kernel teams of any company right >>> now. They do a pretty good job at getting support for their hardware >>> into the kernel as quickly as possible >>> >> >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/hybrid_graphics 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. >> >> Any idea what Dell systems you were having trouble with? >>> >> >> 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. >> >> -- >> Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress >> There is no Darkness in Eternity >> But only Light too dim for us to see. >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen