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andrew79 · 2010-12-01, 20:30

I need a netbook for travelling purpose and for the rest of the time I think it's just going to be sitting around doing nothing and I figure why not install XBMC on it and let it replace my appletv first gen. What do you guys think ? Will this netbook below do the job ? It has HDMI output and it runs on Nvidia ION2

http://www.buy.com/prod/asus-1015pn-pu17...73110.html

poofyhairguy · 2010-12-01, 22:07

woah, that is cool!

I use my ION1 Netbook for XBMC. I don't see why this one wouldn't do the job. Just get a cooling pad or something to help the heat it builds when you slam it with HD content for hours...

andrew79 · 2010-12-01, 23:08

Thanks poofyhairguy , how do you have it setup ? ie remote dongle and xbmc live ?

poofyhairguy · 2010-12-01, 23:18

andrew79 Wrote:ie remote dongle and xbmc live ?

Exactly.

andrew79 · (This post was last modified: 2010-12-01, 23:25 by andrew79.)

Sweet. Thanks for the response. I guess I will be getting this. Another quick question. What dongle are u using ? I do have the Harmony remote already. I'll be very excited to dish my appletv which is suffering on performance wise. Also how's mkv playback ? Like a 4GB mkv for example ?

poofyhairguy · 2010-12-01, 23:42

I use this IR receiver:

http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=OVU4001...m270.l1313

Best there is, especially for a Harmony.

As far as playback I am able to play any of my 1000 HD mkvs on my ION netbook. I don't use it for that- I use it as a portable XBMC player in hotel rooms when I travel with an external HD. But it works. Only thing that gives me trouble is heavy skins (so no Aeon) and pure Blu Ray rips (like 40gb mkvs).

andrew79 · 2010-12-02, 00:06

Thanks poofyhairguy for your advices and time. I'll be buying the netbook soon. Not a big fan of the AEON skin nor big blue ray rips. Those that are around 4gbs are my preference normally.

royalty · 2011-03-24, 00:11

hey andrew,

had You got luck setting up the system (installing XBMC) on the 2015pn?

I also got one (the one with 2 GB RAM) but have trouble with it. While the installation of XBMC live 10.1 the network card driver were not found but the installation completed successful.

The problem is: after starting up the system its unusable, the screen is full of artifacts and the framerate seems to be 1frame/30secons.

had someone else luck with this machine? maybe the system is to new?!

sorry for my english!
regards from GER

eskro · 2011-03-24, 02:30

hi royalty, altho i dont know about Linux,
i suggest your try to post this issue under the LINUX section Smile

poofyhairguy · 2011-03-24, 03:38

Sounds like you need the newer Ubuntu 10.10.

royalty · 2011-03-24, 09:44

poofyhairguy Wrote:Sounds like you need the newer Ubuntu 10.10.

Tried to start ubuntu 10.10 (netbook version) runs great. So should i wait until xbmc live is based on ubuntu 10.10? Or does "xbmc live 10.1" means that it already based on 10.10 ?

poofyhairguy · 2011-03-24, 20:51

royalty Wrote:Tried to start ubuntu 10.10 (netbook version) runs great. So should i wait until xbmc live is based on ubuntu 10.10? Or does "xbmc live 10.1" means that it already based on 10.10 ?

The next version of XBMC will be based on 10.10.

But I think openelec is based on 10.10 now. Use that:

http://www.openelec.tv/

royalty · 2011-03-25, 18:17

Wow, XBMC by openelec performs great on my netbook, even the encoding of h264 seems to be done by the ION gpu.

No i need to get my infrared usb recv. to work with this and my harmony one and i'm glad.

thx brian ^^