Thanks for all of the input, guys. I was using my iPod this week, so while I didn’t get a chance to reply, I was actively following this thread.
Anyway, after much grief with Newegg, I’m now using the 1225B to write this reply. As soon as I took it out of the box, I booted up the 64bit openSUSE 12.1 LiveUSB and installed it, reformatting the drive in the process.
**What works:
**-The webcam
-The microphone
-Sound
----you need to manually turn it up in alsamixer
-Trackpad
----Tap-to-click isn’t working, but there could be an easy way around this.
**Graphics:
**The Asus Eee PC 1225B comes with an AMD e450 with an integrated Radeon HD 6320 GPU. Upon installing openSUSE, the opensource radeon driver was in use. With this, I was able to run KDE4 with its desktop effects flawlessly. With vertical sync enabled, I get little to no screen tearing. I tried, for about 2 hours, to get the proprietary drivers installer, but every time they would complain about unsupported hardware (even the ones off the AMD site). In the end, I’m content with the opensource driver. It gets the job done.
**Complaints:
**My only complaint would have to be how laggy it can be. There are times when the entire system will lock up for a good 10-15 seconds. The mouse will still move smoothly, but the rest of the computer will remain unresponsive and frozen. I’m no expert, but I feel like this is the e450’s fault. I noticed that these lockups occur most frequently - almost constantly at times - when I’m listening to music on Grooveshark. During this time, the CPU load is sitting up around 90%. I don’t know how I would go about fixing this, or if it’s even fixable, but that’s really my only complaint.
Overall, I’m pleased with my purchase. I didn’t get to write much serious code on this yet, but I wrote some CSS/HTML last night with Kate and Google Chrome and I felt like this provided a solid platform for writing code. Anyway, I’m not the best writer, but I just wanted to chime back in for future Googlers looking up this model’s compatibility. Also, If anyone has any insight into my issues, I would love to hear their thoughts.