[sparky0]

Hey all, I'm new here. My roommate has an Acer Aspire Revo running XBMCLive, and it's awesome.

My turn...

I've been researching, and I understand there are some kinks yet to be worked out for XBMC in Linux on the AMD Fusion platform, but my reading suggests that OpenELEC has come a long way. There is a Fusion-specific build now. Considering also that the current PulseBox runs on the Fusion platform with an E-350, and PulseOS is freely available, I am going to give it a shot. (Not on the PulseBox, though.)

I ordered:
Zotac ZBOX-AD02-U from J&R for $217 (shipped), after FWB discount and this $15 off $150 promo code.
OCZ Onyx Series OCZSSD2-1ONX32G 2.5" 32GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) for $60 - $10 - $10 = $40, after this promo code, and the $10 MIR.

I'm going to use one or two 2GB SO-DIMMs that I have lying around.

(Google shopping shows similar prices on the ZBOX at a few other vendors, but I've not used them before.)

I plan to try PulseOS first. If I have trouble, maybe I will try a nightly OpenELEC Fusion build. (I guess now I have to report back, eh? It'll probably be a week or so until it arrives, though.)

[eskro]

i beleive it should be stable for the most part.

[sparky0]

So, I've got it up and running with OpenELEC development builds (currently 20120122164134-r9616 / XBMC 11.0-BETA2 Git:f76c547 (Compiled: Jan 21, 2012)).

It's quite good. I played with some of the video settings, certain ones seemed to help (I don't recall which, but I did get some ideas from this thread.) It's definitely very watchable, but not perfect yet. I see an occasional artifact or jerky motion, but the "o" keypress shows no dropped frames. I don't think I'll bother trying to perfect the playback before Eden stable is out, b/c it's good enough for now. (Also, playback seems to improve after the machine is left on for a while. Odd.)

I've had a very few crashes. Tolerable, for now.

I wanted to give a follow-up, but I guess any additional troubleshooting / configuration issues belong in other sub-forums, so...off I go.

Thanks to eskro for his input & stickies.