Pcs And Laptops: Asus Eee Pc Seashell 1215P-mu17-bk
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12.1″ / 1366×768 (WXGA) / AMD C50 CPU / 1GB DDR3 / ATI HD6250 Graphics / 250GB HDD / No ODD / Windows 7 Home Premium (32-bit) / 802.11 bgn / 10/100 LAN / 0.3M Pixel Camera / HDMI and VGA out / 3x USB 2.0 Ports / 2-in-1 Card Reader / 56W/h battery (up to 8* Hrs) / 1 Year Global Warranty, (6 months for battery)
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #5247 in Personal Computers
- Color: Black
- Brand: Asus
- Model: 1215B-MU17-BK
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 4.70 pounds
- CPU: AMD C Series 1 GHz
- Memory: 1GB Unknown
- Hard Disk: 250GB
- Processors: 1
- Display size: 12.1
Features
- AMD C Series Processor 1GHz
- 1GB DDR3 RAM
- 250GB Hard Drive
- 12.1-Inch Screen, AMD Radeon HD 6250
- Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit, 8.5 hours Battery Life
Reviews
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Good bang for the buck.
By B. Blach
I’ve looked for a 12 in netbook for a long time and finally decided on my 1215B-MU17. I didn’t want to carry around a big bulky 15in, and 13in laptops didn’t seem that much smaller. Ten inch was too small, so 12 inch is a perfect compromise. I’ve had my 1215B for a couple of weeks now, and I absolutely love it. It comes with full 64 bit Win 7, 1 GHz e50 processor, and 1GB Ram (wich I upgraded to 4GB).
It’s a little thicker and heavier than I thought it would be, but that’s probably to accommodate the 6 cell battery. So far I’m very happy with the purchase. In my opinion it’s the best looking netbook out there. Initially I was going to buy the $200 Acer 722, which has the same specs as this one, but it looked really cheap and I didn’t like the design of it.
I’m unable to play 1080HD on youtube without stuttering.If you can justify paying additional $200 for better processor like the 1.6 Ghz E350, then by all means buy that, but even those (1215B PU17, 1215N) can’t play Netflix HD. Standard Definition will work for me just fine for now.
I really don’t understand people’s complaints about this model. The keyboard flexes, but so do keyboards on most other laptops (especially overpriced Sony). It’s fast enough for basic computing, office, internet, and streaming movies. It’s plastic, but it’s really well made and the metal touchpad button feels very upscale and expensive. Bottom line: for less than $300 you can’t go wrong!
Pros:
-Good looks and quality materials
-Long battery life (Approx. 5-6 hours of use)
-Smooth touchpad
-Dual core processor
-Good graphics card
-Portable size
-very quiet
-HDMI, and three USB ports
-Price
Cons:
-can’t play 1080HD on youtube because of weak CPU
-no bluetooth
-0.3 MB camera
-5400 rpm hard drive
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UPDATE:
Thanks to a reviewer of acer 722, I seem to have fixed the 1080HD playback on youtube. Just google “slickdeals AO722 Vision engine” and follow the instruction on the post, or read the post below:
“Improve video performance by updating the AMD C50 APU drivers. You do so by downloading and running this file from AMD’s site located here: http:[...]
Try this out for those of you that weren’t having good video playback. Also, turning off ‘Aero’ effect could help general performance.
Credit goes to HunteR7411 for the following video playback tip (there is a similar setting in the Catalyst Control Center):
I did a clean install of windows 7 and also noticed poor video playback on 1080p. I wanted to check to make sure the hardware acceleration was still active and stumbled on the setting in the AMD VISION Engine Control Center. Click on the video tab on the left hand side and then video settings. Make sure under “video playback” that the slider is on green for “apply current video quality settings to internet video”. This seemed to solved my 1080p problems with the youtube big buck bunny video. If you switch to full screen and it is still stuttering, click pause and rewind just a bit and hit play again. smooth as silk now!!! “
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Good Battery Life (but not as good as advertized), plays nice with Linux.
By ajc
This is a really nice netbook/laptop for the price. The battery life is very good. This laptop has the C-50 cpu that is less power hungry but slower than the 1215B-PU with the E-350 chip, making this the better choice if your primary objective is battery life. However, Asus does take considerable liberty with the truth on the battery life rating. With wireless turned on the battery lasts for 6.5 hours – tops, not 8 hours!
Unlike many smaller 10″ machines, the screen on this 12″ netbook is large enough for most uses, the keyboard is large enough keep typing tasks not-too-cramped and the PgUp, PgDown, Home, End and arrow functions get their own dedicated keys that are in the ‘right’ spot. Nice!
It would be nice if they made a big 80-90 watt hr extended battery to make this a true all day off the grid machine but I haven’t found one yet.
The machine works great running fedora 15. The installation takes a bit of finesse. The only method that worked for me was the hard-disk install method of the UNetbootin utility. I could not get the USB boot install method to work, nor could I get the machine to run the live version from a USB stick. The default windows install works OK once most of the ASUS preloaded trash is cleaned up. Both OS’s respond well to an upgrade to 2GB or more.
The laptop comes with windows 7 *64 BIT*, not the 32-bit version as stated in the Amazon description!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.pretty good
By G. Rik Rowland
had an asus x101 but the screen died after 3 weeks and amazon took it back. decided to go up to 12 inch screen.
first thing i did, after 2 days of incredibly slow Windows Premium, was install ubunto 11.10. what a difference. If you’re getting it to browse the web and some email it’s great. also comes with libre writer which can do ms word docs if you need it.
lot of complaints about the trackpad and it was jumpy with Windows but with Ubuntu it’s spot on. two finger side and up/down scroll works great.
it is a bit slow to start up but after it loads the web is quite speedy. i installed an extra gb of ram and also chromium browser.
typing is a whole lot better than on asus’ 10 inch models. it’s almost a full keyboard.
using this mostly with a verizon lte 4g hotspot and no issue on connectivity.
btw, i had never did linux before i got the x101 and it’s really quite easy to make a usb stick to boot from so you can test it out before installing. download unetbootin on your windows machine, start it up and choose ubuntu and it will make the usb bootable. you can also install ubuntu on a separate partition so you can have both and choose with one to boot into.
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