Asus EEE PC 1215PN - Atom Dual core D500 with Ion2 12'1 ultra portable

I'd like to get one of these soon for travelling,etc. I'm gonna pick up the Asus N61JQ-A1 this evening as my main desktop replacement, and hopefully an iPhone 4 this evening too, so cash will be tight for a while!

Regarding the partition you mentioned, I'm no pc guru by any means but on all my machines I tend to keep at least 2 partitions, 1 for the OS and programs, the 2nd one is larger and I store all my data on it.

My understanding is that in the event of a corrupted OS or whatever, it keeps my data safe, and vice versa. Is this or is this not a smart thing for me to be doing?

 

I typically do the same. Microsoft makes it easy to change the location of your "Docments", "Pictures", etc folders just by editing the properties of the folder.

Unfortunately not the Users folder or ProgramData folder both of which can take up good amounts of space as well, which I wish MS would do something about just to keep data separate from the OS, which IMHO is the best idea ever. Then you can just blow away your OS and all your data and program settings are intact.

 

I didn't know you could change the location of My Docs and My Pics,etc, I tried it before with no luck. I just keep those folders empty in my C drive and created new ones in my data drive. I'd like to be able to move my Docs, Pictures etc default folders over to my data drives and just leave my C drive for Program Files and OS like you said. If you've got a link or steps to do that I'd greatly appreciate the info.

Thanks and sorry, didn't mean to derail this thread! (Damn noobs!)

 

You can either do a cut/paste of your My Docments folder (not copy/paste and make sure its your "My Documents" and not just "Documents") and paste it were you want it. Or right click "My documents" choose "properties" then click the "location" tab and assign a folder. Do this with each of the other folders like my music, my pictures, etc. But you can see how annoying it can be to have to assign every folder from a different location. Not to mention programdata folder which you *shouldn't* need to backup, but who knows what some programs do.

In the "Documents" library, you can right click and add any number of folder locations you want.

Now to get everything in the User folder and ProgramData folder (hidden by default) you will need to do a clean install. I'm going to attempt this with my next install. Check out the info here and scroll down to Brian Wilder's post:

Win7: how do I move user folder to a different drive

I did move mine once I had windows installed but it was messy and not the best way to do it. Unfortunately it would probably require a clean install.

I think there's been enough complaints to MS about this, and considering more and more people are buying small and affordable SSD's as their boot drives but larger hard drives for data, I'm hoping they'll make this an option on install or a simple way to do it once the OS is installed.

 

I assume they use atom because 1. it's probably cheaper than a i3 ulv and 2. it's hard to market it as a netbook if it's running a core i

edit - can't decide to order from amazon or excalibur.... hmmm.

 

I don't think that I've ever been this excited for the launch of a netbook, but the waiting is really the hardest part.

 

Heyyy! It's out on ExcaliberPC!
"1215n" | EXcaliberPC.com

Not on Amazon, yet.

 

Ahh, seems like its main downfall is... super flexy keyboard
Combine the dell 101z keyboard with this and we got a perfect product!

I went from a 1000he to a alienware m11x and I haven't really used the m11x to its potential. Thinking about 'downgrading' back to a netbook and this might be the one but with its super flexy keyboard I don't think i can do it.

Guess I have some more waiting to do.

 

For those interested i managed to squeeze a 3k 3dmark06 run out of this by overclocking the ion to 310m clocks. I rekon it'll do more but the lack of overclocking method for the cpu and the crappy drivers.

EDIT: Also this thing stays very cool 62C overclocked in furmark so theres no heat issue with pushing this machine.

 

Which software did you use for overclocking? Does any actually recognize Ion 2 yet?

 

I used nvidia system tools however i have since noticed that the overclock seems to "fade away" after a few minutes so its not totally compatible yet.

EDIT: After looking at it in more depth it seems that the higher the clocks get the lower the gpu utilisation gets which i can only be either the weak processor, the poor pcie x1 bandwidth or the crappy driver. I'm leaning towards the processor and drivers because it doesn't seem to affect gpu benchmark scores - only real world games etc. Also if it were a lack of bandwidth it wouldn't really manifest like this.
I think with new optimised drivers and if someone can figure out how to overclock the d525 then it'll be a very capable and consistant little machine.

 

What's the difference between 1215n and 1215pn?

 

no such thing as a 1215pn? maybe there will be. and maybe it'll include BT and usb 3.0. i hope so.

 

1215n already has BT 3.0

 

Not in america

 

Does the nvidia gpu work in linux?

 

I would like to know where I can purchase the 1215 with USB 3.0 ports.

 

Just got the 1215n and I am pretty disappointed that for a laptop that has been advertised with smooth HD playback that it's a little pretty choppy when playing full screen 720p videos and unwatchable at 1080p. Is this because of the latest beta nvidia ion driver? I'm not sure if it's the driver but isn't the new ion supposed to have 512MB of video ram?

 

That does not look right.....

 

Yes, something's wrong there.

As I said before 1215 plays 1080p at full screen smoothly even with integrated graphics card.

 

GPU has no role in video playback unless your using a player & codec that supports hardware accelerated playback.

I got 720p playing just fine on my old 1000H with a single core 1.6ghz ATOM so I know for a fact that a dual core atom can do 720p, not sure about 1080p without the help of the gpu via hardware acceleration, its probably hit & miss depending on the bitrate of the file.

Sounds to me something is jacked up with your system/software.

Id try a different player, or try to install some common codecs like FFDSHOW.


If your trying to play some raw M2TS HD material like a bluray rip thats probably your problem, that takes a strong computer to do since the bitrate is crazy high.

 

It seems that wei is reading the intel gpus memory as the ion here since that has 64mb of dedicated and shares the system memory.