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ASUS Eee PC 1015B-MU17-BK 10.1 Inch Netbook (Black)
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A solid netbook but some "assembly" required. : ASUS Eee PC 1015B-MU17-BK 10.1 Inch Netbook (Black)
I bought this with the intention of pairing it with a 32GB SSD I had lying around. Windows 7 doesn't really make sense at this capacity, so I planned to install Ubuntu. All I wanted was a netbook that ran on a small hard drive and could play back HD video.
Well, it turns out that AMD graphics chips and their drivers have much poorer Linux support than Nvidia's chips (think ION) or even the Atom's integrated graphics. Video playback of just SD sources has been worse on this 1015B than on the 1001P I used to own, and that had an Atom N450 (with much, much worse graphics capabilities on paper). 720p playback, whether with Flash or VLC, has consistent audio (surprisingly) but about ~5fps video. It's just unwatchable.
The reason for this, as far as I can tell, has to do with the C-30's hardware acceleration of video and access to it under Linux. Linux doesn't get to use the GPU to decode video because no available Linux drivers allow it to, so instead it has to use the CPU to decode all video, and the single-core C-30 is nowhere near powerful enough to handle it on its own. (If you need to know more, the Wiki page for "VA API" is a good starting point.)
4 stars because I otherwise like this netbook, but the bottom line: If you're considering this netbook because you want to both a) run Linux, AND b) watch HD video, look elsewhere.
(Also: I've installed a 4GB RAM stick and the BIOS acknowledges all of it. I know the specs claim to only support up to 2GB, but it supports 4GB.)
