Acer Aspire Revo R3600, £159.95 delivered to Ireland from Ebuyer

Kotek Besar

Acer Aspire Revo R3600 Desktop PC, Atom 230 1.6GHz, 160GB HDD, 1 GB RAM, HDMI, nVidia GeForce 9400 ION, WIFI, Linux



The AspireRevo R3600 is a revolution in computer size, shape, design and affordability. This cool-blue nettop sports a small casing that can either stand alone or snap to your monitor, streamlining your personal space while giving you the home infotainment center you always wanted!

Sleek any-room PC
Whether tucked away in a corner of your desk or nicely concealed on the back of your monitor, the AspireRevo R3600 makes the perfect everyday PC for cruising the Internet, doing your daily work, staying connected via instant messaging, and enjoying photos, music, videos and more.
Mini powerhouse
The AspireRevo R3600 is small but powerful, fueled by today's latest mini processor and matched by an advanced NVIDIA® graphics chipset plus HDMI™. An eSATA port, six USB ports and a card reader make transferring your photos and other files as fast and easy as ever..



Processor

* Intel Atom 230 1.6GHz
* NVIDIA® ION™ chipset

Memory

* 1 GB SDRAM

Hard Drive

* 160GB Serial ATA II

Optical Drive

* No Optical Drive

Software

* Operating System: Linux
* Microsoft® Office 2007 Trial with Microsoft® Works 8.51
* Acer GameZone
* eSobi™
* McAfee® Internet Security Suite 2009 (Trial)
* Adobe® Reader®

Display

* Monitor Not Included

Graphics

* nVidia ION

Audio

* Speakers Not Included
* High Definition audio (7.1)

Input Devices

* Keyboard & Mouse

Networking

* Wireless Lan
* No Modem

Power Supply

* 65 W adapter with power cord
* PC 2001, ENERGY STAR® 5.0

Dimensions

* 180 (L)
* 180 (H)
* 30 (W) mm (without bezel)

Interfaces

* 6 x USB 2.0 ports
* Four-in-one card reader
* High definition headphone and microphone jacks
* DC-in jack
* Ethernet port
* D-Sub VGA port
* HDMI port
* eSATA port

Warranty

* 1 Year Manufacturer Warranty


Total: £159.95 inc shipping to Ireland.
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/167153

Voodu Child

Throw on XBMC and this would make a nice little HTPC.

Though I would just confirm what kind of GPU acceleration is available under Linux. (VDPAU?)

Kotek Besar

Personally I would throw on Windows 7 Ultimate.

BTW, useful review here.

BaconZombie

Beat me to it.

This just leaves nVidia's ION platform, the key component of which is the 9400M graphics chip - that seen in the new Apple MacBooks. This brings with it the vital feature of hardware video decoding support, making it possible to playback 1080p h.264, MPEG-4 and VC-1 encoded video. In our testing, performance was flawless. HD film trailers, encoded in h.264 with stereo audio, all played back with no dropped frames, with CPU utilisation hovering between 20 to 30 per cent.

To tax the system a little further we switched to a 1080p version of Elephant's Dream, encoded in MPEG-4 with 5.1 channel AC3 audio. Here the CPU utilisation varied more. In complex scenes it peaked at around 70 per cent, with lows of 30 per cent. No matter how taxing the scene, though, the Revo still didn't drop a frame - very impressive.

benifa wrote: »

Personally I would throw on Windows 7 Ultimate.

BTW, useful review here.

Thanks OP,

Going to order one now.


Edit:

Does anybody have a promotion code for this site?

BrendanD

I have to stop reading this forum thats a laptop and now a desktop i bought today , ;-)

johnp

Super find OP!

I definitely don't need a new desktop......... or do I? No, I don't.

But it's cool............. maybe I will................

Kotek Besar

I know the feeling..

I don't need it. No one else in the household needs it. I can't justify buying it.

..but I want it.

TPD

Same here. I've no need for it, but I want it... Very good find OP.

The_Conductor

I have it with 4Gb of RAM running Windows 7 Ultimate here. Its a dream. You can specify the video memory up to 1Gb in the BIOS- and the Acer 'springboard' (it gives you a browser and skype before you boot- in a limited Linux kernel) is really good.

Seriously recommend stripping the Acer crapware it ships with though. Also- if it doesn't have Windows- whats the story with the Microsoft works etc? It most certainly doesn't work under Linux.......

Ps- there is a small hidden partition on the hard-drive with just Vista drivers on it (though mine came with a 250Gb harddrive). When you load up a fresh copy of Windows (even Windows 7) the boot loader automatically kicks off a driver installation process- which works flawlessly for Windows 7.

Pps- the Atom 230 supports hyper threading, but not VTx.....

Further- the wireless is an Atheros Wireless N chipset. Signal strength is nothing I'd be getting excited about and there is no way to attach an external antenna. Its nice to have 'N' though.

Alanstrainor

Sounds great for the price.

Boggles

Sounds like a great bargain.

How much ram can you stick in it?

The_Conductor

Boggles wrote: »

Sounds like a great bargain.

How much ram can you stick in it?

Max 4Gb DDR2 RAM in 2 * 2Gb SODIMMs
Up to 1Gb of this can be allocated to graphics memory.

Boggles

Regging is a bit of a nightmare, can't change the country from Uk to Ireland when entering address.

Supercell

Wow, I just found my xbmc xbox replacement, super find OP!!

smccarrick have you tried playing the infamous Killa Sampla on it?
If it can do that i'm seriously impressed.

BaconZombie

Ok, that bit of info turns it from a really want to MUST HAVE...

smccarrick wrote: »

I have it with 4Gb of RAM running Windows 7 Ultimate here. Its a dream. You can specify the video memory up to 1Gb in the BIOS- and the Acer 'springboard' (it gives you a browser and skype before you boot- in a limited Linux kernel) is really good.

Seriously recommend stripping the Acer crapware it ships with though. Also- if it doesn't have Windows- whats the story with the Microsoft works etc? It most certainly doesn't work under Linux.......

Ps- there is a small hidden partition on the hard-drive with just Vista drivers on it (though mine came with a 250Gb harddrive). When you load up a fresh copy of Windows (even Windows 7) the boot loader automatically kicks off a driver installation process- which works flawlessly for Windows 7.

Pps- the Atom 230 supports hyper threading, but not VTx.....

Further- the wireless is an Atheros Wireless N chipset. Signal strength is nothing I'd be getting excited about and there is no way to attach an external antenna. Its nice to have 'N' though.

How much info do that need FFS......
I'm not giving my DOB....

Telephone number
Not a valid phone number

Boggles wrote: »

Regging is a bit of a nightmare, can't change the country from Uk to Ireland when entering address.

Alanstrainor

Google checkout is the way to go with ebuyer if i remember correctly.

manu2009

you can also get this off ebay with 2gb ram and 250gb hd (instead of 1gb and 160gb) for €180 delivered through ems
http://cgi.ebay.ie/ACER-Aspire-R3600-REVO-250G-2G-RAM-Mini-Desktop-PC-NEW_W0QQitemZ160371315064QQcmdZViewItemQQptZDesktop_PCs?hash=item2556e01178
(However if its caught by customs it'l be an extra €40 so €220 in total, still not too bad)

KeRbDoG

Dammit, just bought one
Anyone know what the memory config is with this unit? 1x1GB or 2x512MB?

Supercell

manu2009 wrote: »

you can also get this off ebay with 2gb ram and 250gb hd (instead of 1gb and 160gb) for €180 delivered through ems
http://cgi.ebay.ie/ACER-Aspire-R3600-REVO-250G-2G-RAM-Mini-Desktop-PC-NEW_W0QQitemZ160371315064QQcmdZViewItemQQptZDesktop_PCs?hash=item2556e01178
(However if its caught by customs it'l be an extra €40 so €220 in total, still not too bad)

Wireless kbd and mouse too.

This Asrock NetTop ION 330 Mini ITX might be a better option for XBMC. From my reading of the XBMC forum it seems to be a very popular choice and apparently can play the Killa Sampla which is impressive.

Sorry for dragging this off topic, the OP got me clicking buttons!!

KeRbDoG

Supercell wrote: »

Wireless kbd and mouse too.

When yea click through to the discussion page
"Acer Aspire Revo Desktop PC, Atom 230 1.6GHz, 160GB HDD, 1 GB RAM, NOOPT, nVidia ION, Wireless Keyboard & Mouse, Linux"

Fingers crossed

KeRbDoG

manu2009 wrote: »

you can also get this off ebay with 2gb ram and 250gb hd (instead of 1gb and 160gb) for €180 delivered through ems
http://cgi.ebay.ie/ACER-Aspire-R3600-REVO-250G-2G-RAM-Mini-Desktop-PC-NEW_W0QQitemZ160371315064QQcmdZViewItemQQptZDesktop_PCs?hash=item2556e01178
(However if its caught by customs it'l be an extra €40 so €220 in total, still not too bad)

Surely customs would be more due to the handling fee of whoever ships them item? UPS being about another tenner

wiseolsham

Almost got the credit card out, when I spotted that there is no optical out for audio, only through the hdmi. No way around this I presume (besides changing the amp to something with hdmi) Actually amp does have hdmi. Oh no! There goes the CC! I presume it would be a piece of piss to install windows 7 on this ????

The_Conductor

Supercell wrote: »

Wow, I just found my xbmc xbox replacement, super find OP!!

smccarrick have you tried playing the infamous Killa Sampla on it?
If it can do that i'm seriously impressed.

Plays fine. I also have an external Bluray player/burner that works fine on it. If anyone is in the Lucan area and wants to see this working- give me a yell......

The_Conductor

wiseolsham wrote: »

Almost got the credit card out, when I spotted that there is no optical out for audio, only through the hdmi. No way around this I presume (besides changing the amp to something with hdmi) Actually amp does have hdmi. Oh no! There goes the CC! I presume it would be a piece of piss to install windows 7 on this ????

It took 2.5 hours to do an upgrade installation (to Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit- from Vista Ultimate 32 bit). I did a similar installation on an EEEBox B202- but with a clean installation instead- it took 40 mins.

Windows 7 Experience score is 2.2- due to the Atom processor- but 3D graphics are clocking a 5.9 and 5.8 for both the HDD and Memory. You do notice the benefit of hyper threading in Windows 7- far more than in Vista- and the graphics are simply something else altogether- a totally different experience from Vista.

The_Conductor

Supercell wrote: »

Wireless kbd and mouse too.

This Asrock NetTop ION 330 Mini ITX might be a better option for XBMC. From my reading of the XBMC forum it seems to be a very popular choice and apparently can play the Killa Sampla which is impressive.

Sorry for dragging this off topic, the OP got me clicking buttons!!

In all fairness- the wireless keyboard and mouse are more for show than anything else. Its like a laptop keyboard- but very plasticy, and the keys don't have a lot of feedback. The mouse is like a malformed block of cheese....... I use a logitech keyboard and mouse, there is no comparison.

KeRbDoG

wiseolsham wrote: »

Almost got the credit card out, when I spotted that there is no optical out for audio, only through the hdmi. No way around this I presume (besides changing the amp to something with hdmi) Actually amp does have hdmi. Oh no! There goes the CC! I presume it would be a piece of piss to install windows 7 on this ????

If yea need optical out, yea can get a USB sound card with an optical out like this

Rsaeire

Supercell wrote: »

it seems to be a very popular choice and apparently can play the Killa Sampla which is impressive.

The "Killa Sampla" proves troublesome to decode, besides the high bitrate, as it is encoded using the H.264/AVC codec in High Profile @ Level 5.1 (HP@L5.1) with 16 reference frames. Currently only Nvidia hardware offers full hardware acceleration for L5.1; in comparison, HD DVD and Blu-ray content is encoded in HP@L4.1 with 2 reference frames.

Back on topic, this really is a great deal and will prove to be a great HTPC for anyone in need of one. I just hope eBuyer doesn't mess things up like it's done in the past.

torregolf

Forgive my ignorance - this has no monitor, can you buy one with it; how much does windows 7 cost, and finally, i am trying to register with ebuyer and it wont recognise irish phone number. thanks in advance
T

The_Conductor

torregolf wrote: »

Forgive my ignorance - this has no monitor, can you buy one with it; how much does windows 7 cost, and finally, i am trying to register with ebuyer and it wont recognise irish phone number. thanks in advance
T

You can get a monitor from any computer retailor- or you can go online and pick one up from any of a large number of online stores. If you look at the current issue of PC Pro- they have reviews of several budget monitors- some are really really good. You can always ask for help/guidance over in the Tech-Computers & Technology fora......

Win 7- there are copies of Home Premium going for EUR60 on adverts.ie- its very slightly more than the pre-order price, but significantly less than retail....

Re: the ebuyer phone no. thing- it will take an Irish mobile no.

Rev. Kitchen

Edit : Ive skipped the registration by using google checkout. With VAT added its coming out at 173 euro is that right or am i missing something ?

manu2009

Rev. Kitchen wrote: »

Edit : Ive skipped the registration by using google checkout. With VAT added its coming out at 173 euro is that right or am i missing something ?

yeah thats right, £159.95 = €173.94 :P

Rev. Kitchen

Bought !! I swear this bargin alerts site is an evil thing its meant to save you money but ive actually increased my spending.

Needed to get a Desk top for my work so this will work out nicely.

pauly3

I second that! Bargain Alerts actually cost you money ....
I used Google Checkout and the total, including £9.99 delivery, came to €173.89.

I was reading that Adobe are about to release an update to their Flash Player which enables hardware acceleration of Flash Video, including HD, for the 9400m GPU in this thing. Can't wait. I will put it next to my TV, connect via HDMI, and run the BBC iPlayer through it.

Now, another device to install my free copy of Windows 7 on

green123

pauly3 wrote: »

I second that! Bargain Alerts actually cost you money ....
I used Google Checkout and the total, including £9.99 delivery, came to €173.89.

I was reading that Adobe are about to release an update to their Flash Player which enables hardware acceleration of Flash Video, including HD, for the 9400m GPU in this thing. Can't wait. I will put it next to my TV, connect via HDMI, and run the BBC iPlayer through it.

Now, another device to install my free copy of Windows 7 on

are you in ireland ?
how can you get iplayer working ?

Gibs

green123 wrote: »

are you in ireland ?
how can you get iplayer working ?

I would be interested in knowing the answer to this also. Is there a reliable, repeatable method for getting iplayer in Ireland?

Rev. Kitchen

Anyone recommend a good monitor to go with this. Would like a nice High def "bargin"

pauly3

I'm in Kildare and I use a paid proxy server. Works a treat, but cost €148 for 1 year!! The free proxy servers are rubbish.

Link:

http://www.ukproxyserver.co.uk/

It's better value if you can share the cost with others, like students or flatmates. AND, if it is the only way you watch TV you are license exempt. The BBC HD is very good. Some newer TVs and (coming soon) Freesat boxes will be capable of connecting directly to your home gateway (eg Netopia Router} where you can stream it in.

That is why this little Revo nettop is such a gem. Once Adobe add hardware decoding to their Flash Player you can use it as a streaming media player. I intend to connect it directly to a Devolo HompPlug AV device which I can plug into a power socket next to my television and which connects to the router in my office. You need at least 4mbps broadband to stream the BBC HD and preferably a big download cap. Of course it also makes a nice PC which you can bring around with you on your travels!

Oh, and Top Gear are in HD from next month.....

epgriffin

I've been looking at these on various sites for a couple of weeks. They seem to be clearing stock to make way for the new Revo 3601. Just wondering if I should snap up this bargain or is the 3601 going to be a much more usable machine? It has already started appearing on some UK based sites to coincide with the release of windows 7. It's the same size but has Atom 330 Dual Core 4gb RAM 500gb HD Windows 7 Premium. Priced at around 300GBP.

What to do!?!

aphex™

Defo wait for dual core. My netbook was fine until I loaded virus and firewall scanner on to it.

Now, the one featured here runs linux so that may not impact too much if you go for this deal but it would if u wanted to load windows 7 on too it.

wiseolsham

Cheers for the helpful replies

The_Conductor

aphex™ wrote: »

Defo wait for dual core. My netbook was fine until I loaded virus and firewall scanner on to it.

Now, the one featured here runs linux so that may not impact too much if you go for this deal but it would if u wanted to load windows 7 on too it.

Its the Atom 230 (the one which supports hyper threading) so it is a lot more responsive under Windows 7 than a regular netbook would be......

I've Windows 7 Ultimate running on it- Cyberlink Powerdvd plays bluray disks smoothly, and for antivirus I'm using the MS antivirus suite and firewall.

The 3601 @ £300 is good value- when you consider the 4Gb of RAM, the bigger HDD, the Win7HP licence and the dual core processor- but the 360 @ £150 is remarkable value and well up to running most programmes.

Note: my 360 came with 4Gb of RAM- and I went into the BIOS and dedicated 1Gb to video RAM. This probably makes a massive difference to Aero responsive- but its something you'd have to do with the 3601 too......

AlmightyCushion

If I didn't already have a HTPC I'd be getting this. Bargain and a half.

Ghost Train

I've too many PCs and media player to get this, but looks like a nice bit of kit

cable842

does it come with a monitor ?

which linux is on the laptop.

are they a good website to buy off ?

pauly3

to epgriffin: Buy 2 of these for £300 and then you have dual cores
In fairness, it depends on what you are going to use it for. As a media centre, file server, or surfing and office tasks the current offer would be ideal. If you were about to spend £300 for the upcoming model I would advise you to keep an eye on the Dell Outlet for a good laptop. If you know anyone in the UK, check the Dell Outlet UK as well

to Cable842: No, it does not come with a monitor. The version of Linux on it is a basic desktop (Splashtop) which you can replace with any other version of Linux (eg Ubuntu Netbook Remix or Moblin) or Windows 7. I have bought from Ebuyer in the past and had no problems. If you are in Ireland you will have to use the Google Checkout option.

Amazon.co.uk seem to have had this same deal fairly recently (£149.99) with free delivery, but it is now no longer available. There are good reviews here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B00292BR1I/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

BaconZombie

Why do you need Virus and firewall running on your mini-pc?

aphex™ wrote: »

Defo wait for dual core. My netbook was fine until I loaded virus and firewall scanner on to it.

Now, the one featured here runs linux so that may not impact too much if you go for this deal but it would if u wanted to load windows 7 on too it.

Redisle

Ahh.. this site just costs me more and more. Just ordered this thing and I don't need it, at all. Have a 20" LCD sitting on my desk that I use as a second monitor with the laptop, but I could bolt this to the back and use it for media etc while browsing on the laptop.. either that or Il connect it up with the 32" in the sitting room to replace the ol' xbmc. There's just something that get's me about having a basically fully fuctioning pc with a wireless kb/mouse on the big screen..

But shure there's always adverts if I don't use it!

philbee

Just got an email from ebuyer cancelling my order with no firm reason given, anyone else get on of these mails?:mad:

on a closer inspection:

Your order has been cancelled for one of the following reasons:

1. You have requested the order to be cancelled.
2. The item(s) you have ordered are no longer available or have been discontinued.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused. If you still require the order, please reorder the goods online.

torregolf

Yes, same message, same reasons?

pauly3

I got an email saying mine had shipped today. Did you use Google Checkout?

torregolf

yes, used google checkout, should i re-order - dont want 2 of them!