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From: Gianluca Interlandi (gianluca_at_u.washington.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 28 2010 - 15:19:47 CDT

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for sharing your experience. The ASUS Eee PC 1215N-PU17-BK has a
12.1 inch screen and I think it has a standard keyboard. So, probably the
issues with the too small keayboard and screen are not present. Also, the
resume problems might not occurr either because NVIDIA is better supported
in Linux than intel graphics. I'm just speculating, though since I have
not tested it myself yet.

Gianluca

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Thomas C. Bishop wrote:

> I have an Asus EEEPC 1002HA that replaced my IBM thinkpad T42 (?) after a trip to Germany I had enough lugging around a regular notebook.
>
> I've been _VERY_ pleased w/ it.
> This is not the one you're looking at so not sure how to compare the
> Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950 on mine to what you have in mind.
>
> I did upgrade to 2Gb ram and a 250GB HD
> I do molec. dyn of large systems and have not had any real problems using this for talks & daily productivity..
> I can't use it for analysis but I can do live VMD sessions during talks.
> of course I test them ahead of time.
> It is not my main PC, i.e. I don't do analysis on it, but it's plenty good for home/road use, productivity and presentations.
>
> I ran opensuse 11.2 for a long time and recently switched to 11.3
> 11.3 does not restore the external monitor as well as 11.2 did. 11.2 never seems to have given me sleep/restore problems.
>
> I also run VirtualBox and use it to watch netflix via IE
>
> Biggest complaint: keyboard too small.
> Note I don't use the built in camera and sound's not a big deal for me.
> I usually use an external monitor, keyboard, mouse w/ it at home.
> I sometimes travel w/ a keyboard if I know I'm gonna be doing a lot of typing.
> I always bring an ext'n mouse.
> I just got bifocals.. don't know if I'm getting old or if the video is to blame :-)
>
> Having said all this I'd l like to hear about other's experiences/prefs.
> For $400 I'm tempted to upgrade even for minor improvements or just get one as part of a phone plan.
>
> Tom
>
> On Tuesday 28 September 2010 10:45:08 am John Stone wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Based on what I've read and heard from others, I would expect the
>> NVIDIA ion chipsets to do better than the integrated Intel graphics
>> that are often found on low-cost laptops these days. If you're running
>> Windows, the performance difference may only be a factor of 2x or so.
>> Under Linux, there are frequently serious problems with the drivers for
>> the Intel chipsets, so the performance difference approaches infinity. :)
>> The low-power AMD laptop chips are likely similar in performance to the
>> NVIDIA ion, but again, their Linux drivers aren't quite as smooth
>> the NVIDIA drivers, though far better than Intel's last I've heard.
>>
>> I've been tempted to get one of the ion based netbooks as well, as I'd
>> heard good things from a graphics developer that uses one of the
>> HP mini 311 netbooks. I've been trying to eek along a bit longer with
>> my archaic IBM thinkpad before spending any money however. I've also
>> been hearing that there are various 3-D capable laptops coming out soon
>> (larger form factor, and 2x the price) so I may wait and see what happens
>> there.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> John Stone
>> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 12:01:40PM -0700, Gianluca Interlandi wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> It might be a bit off topic. I wanted to ask whether anybody has had any
>>> experience with the Asus EEE netbook:
>>>
>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220805&cm_re=asus_eee-_-34-220-805-_-Product
>>>
>>> ASUS Eee PC 1215N-PU17-BK Black Intel Atom D525(1.80GHz) Dual Core 12.1"
>>> WXGA 2GB Memory 250GB HDD NetBook
>>>
>>> In particular concerning the graphics card: Next-generation NVIDIA ION
>>> graphics
>>>
>>> Has anybody tested it with glxgear, how many frames per second? Is it
>>> enough to run VMD on it and display and smoothly rotate a molecule (a few
>>> 100 AA) with SURF or VDW on? I plan to use it mainly for conference
>>> presentations. Does it have openGL 3D acceleration?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Gianluca
>>>
>>> -----------------------------------------------------
>>> Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca_at_u.washington.edu
>>> +1 (206) 685 4435
>>> http://artemide.bioeng.washington.edu/
>>>
>>> Postdoc at the Department of Bioengineering
>>> at the University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A.
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>>
>
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Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca_at_u.washington.edu
                     +1 (206) 685 4435
                     http://artemide.bioeng.washington.edu/

Postdoc at the Department of Bioengineering
at the University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A.
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