Latitude 15 3000 - Gaming system for $780? Too good to be true?

Many thanks for the screenshoot. I do not have this laptop yet, but more and more confident I'm getting one. Never seen before running an ULV at 1866MHz memory speed, it is awesome! The reason why I buy, because I like the ULV CPU with strong GPU combination + very good price with 1080p screen.

PS, than that is probably an Atom Ant clone.

 

I've given it a try, but no major success yet.

I'm not actually dual booting - I have windows on an SSD with some data on my HDD. I'm trying to install Linux on that HDD so that I can select it at the bios boot screen to get to Linux, but it will default to the windows install on the SSD if I do nothing.


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The problem here is I don't think there is a way for us to select in the bios which drive we want to boot from. I'm assuming that you have a hard drive DVD Bay adapter, the BIOS will see the hard-drive as a DVD drive.

 

Nice! Are you looking at gaming with this? If so just to let you know I get about 120 fps on low 1080p settings playing DOTA 2.

 

Yes I have a drive caddy in the ODD bay. When the bios splash shows, I can hit F12 to choose a boot device. Shouldn't that do what I want?

Anyway, I have the SSD taken out right now, so it's just the one drive, and I am still having trouble.


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No because for some reason it is not seen as a 2nd hard drive and instead is seen as a DVD drive at the BIOS level. Somehow this does make a diff. I am willing to wager that if you took that drive out of the caddy and put it into the drive bay, it would work for sure.

 

I don't think so. The bios lists it as device bay, not optical drive.

It seems to boot fine, I honestly believe I am only missing video output because I can't seem to get nomodeset set.


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I wasted 5 days trying to get this to work. Talking to you now I want to try again.

 

Haha that makes me feel better about slapping my SSD back in and firing up acronis in windows to back up my data partitions so I can pull the SSD again and just let Linux format the entire hard disk on automatic mode.

I'll let you know how it goes. I have work tomorrow so I do need to make sure my windows side is still usable tomorrow morning.


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I play occasionally GTA 4, 5, The Walking Dead. I'm sure this machine will do these games very fine, because my earlier ultrabook with 8750m was already pretty good.
Talking about the DVD drive place, does it use the thinner HDD caddy or the thicker? The thinner can take up to 9.5mm HDDs, the bigger up to 12.5.