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Acer Aspire Revo R3600, £159.95 delivered to Ireland from Ebuyer
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yes there is, as subway posted the other day.Is there anywhere cheaper to pick up this bundle?
damn you subway, i thought I was the first one to spot the £199 R3610 deal.
i was actually going to start a new thread and watch all the thanks roll in, but now you've ruined my plans of world domination through the boards.ie 'thanks' system.
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i've always had trouble with youtube etc. on my work PC, it's only a 3ghz P4 w/2gb ram and even the low res youtube stuff used to stutter occasionally due to the number of things I have running on the box, but that beta update seems to have improved things significantly, thanks mick.mickoneill30 wrote: »I read a review of a machine like this and the guy put down the processor usage to Flash. There's a beta of Flash 10.1 that he put on and the processor usage went way down.
You can try the beta (http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/) or just wait for the official release. 0 -
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Took the words outta my mouth.
£200/€230 delivered (Linux version), with a keyboard & mouse included (OK, USB, not wireless)... kinda knocks the carp out of the Targa thing they're doing in Lidl, doesn't it?
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one has two cores, the other only has one.What is the differnece between single core and dual core ?:o
basically, you get two of the main part of the processor in a dual core cpu. it will share some of the components with the other core, but in the simplest terms it allows you to run more applications concurrently or will allow any application capable of multithreading to run (anything up to) *almost* twice as fast as a similar spec single core cpu, depending on what exactly it's doing.
in a single core cpu, all the instructions that are sent to the CPU are queued up and processed one at a time, but with a dual core cpu it can process two queues of instructions symultaneously. most of the time it won't speed up a single application, but will work wonders if you are running several apps at once as they're not all fighting for proccessing time on the same core.
hyperthreading is kind of a virtual version of this, but although its more effective than just having a regular single core, it's not able to compete with two physical cores as although you have two queues waiting for cpu time, they are still only getting access to a single core, alternating between the two queues. it mitigates only having one core to work with multiple apps at the same time, but it's far from ideal.
you can see hyperthreading in action if you have a single core cpu with hyperthreading on it you'll notice that task manager shows two cpu graphs as if you have two physical cpu's.
if you had one of the top end current cpu's like the i7 920 (quad core with hyperthreading), you'll actually see 8 cpu graphs in task manager as each core has hyperthreading enabled on it.
there's 6 & 8 core consumer cpu's on he horizon already and AMD is about to release a 12 core server cpu (and you could have 4 physical cpu's on one motherboard, so 48 cores total) so i think MS might want to find a better way to show the cpu activity in task manager or before long we'll need to have two widescreen monitors just to see what's going on. 0 -
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highly unusual these days, they're opening just about everything coming from outside the EU. it's xmas every day in the customs department.
just as an FYI, i heard back from the guys at ebuyer and they've said that for delivery to ireand just put in EIRE123 in the postcode box and make sure your phone number starts with a zero, so put in 00353, drop the first zero of your number and add i to the end and al should be rosey (or so they tell me). 0 -
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I'd seen that eBay one from Taiwan; the Chinese/English keyboard didn't put me off half as much as this:HOW TO DO WARRANTY
- The Item is brand new in original packaging and comes with 1 year manufacturer's warranty. Please note that the item does not have international warranty, only Taiwan warranty.
- How to do the warranty : The warranty will be covered by natural faulty not including man-made damaged. Please send back to Taiwan for warranty, then we will send back to you.
- If you receive a defective item or any item needs to be repaired under the warranty period. We replace or fix the item for you free of charge. buyers have to report to us within 3 days and take a picture to show us the damage part and outside of packageafter received the item. We will replace another brand new and tested OK ones to buyers. Buyers are responsible for sending it back to us safely and we will pay for the postage of sending the replacement to buyer.
- Please do not bid if you can not accept the Warranty details.
So who's got a promotion code?
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sorry, my typing fingers sometimes work at a different sapeed to my brain.Can you clarify? Do you put the character 'i' at the end of the tele number Sorry!...make sure your phone number starts with a zero, so put in 00353, drop the first zero of your number and add (the rest of) it to the end and all should be rosy (or so they tell me).0 -
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the R3610 is now down from £199 to £189.99 on ebuyer.
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/182588
damn, it's getting harder and harder to not buy it. 0 -
the R3610 is now down from £199 to £189.99 on ebuyer.
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/182588
damn, it's getting harder and harder to not buy it.
Go-on, you know you want to......
Something to keep in mind- the exchange rate has gone totally crap.
Its over EUR120 per St£100 now......0 -
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that's the problem, I DO want to AND I have a legit use for it, not just a 'want', but I'm getting married in June and every penny is going to get spent on that till then.smccarrick wrote: »Go-on, you know you want to......
Something to keep in mind- the exchange rate has gone totally crap.
Its over EUR120 per St£100 now......
then no doubt there will be babies and all the expense that goes with that.
feck it, just shoot me now!
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Deleted User wrote: »Latecomer to the thread! If I bought this and followed the LifeHacker post (installing XBMC) what features would I have? I mean I'm still using an xbox for xbmc so would the only gain be HD stuff? So I'd lose all my emulators and games?
I've moved from XBMC on an Xbox to XBMC on one of these. The main difference is that on a HD TV you can have the higher quality skins on XBMC. I'm using this. http://xbmc.org/skins/mediastreamredu/
I tried it or something similar on the Xbox but in the lower def you could barely read the text. On the Revo on HD it looks great.
I kind of got fed up of of the Xbox stuttering on some file formats. Thats gone.
The final difference is that you can use the web browser with your OS on your sitting room TV. Handy.
You will lose your emulators and games as they're nothing to do with XBMC but you can leave the Xbox under the TV too
Edit: To install XBMC on Windows is dead easy. It's just an exe to run and it installs. Then copy the skin into your skins folder.0 -
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Got one of the R3600 delivered on Monday, my brother put ubuntu on it for me yesterday, and I have to say I'm very happy with it:) Can access 4oD and the bcc player on it and can catch up on my favourite shows by other means;). Was considering getting a media player for ages but glad I spent the little extra and got this. Does exactly what I wanted it for
If you put Ubuntu on it can you still control it by remote control like you could by putting XBMC on it? I'm a little confused....I read the lifehacker post on putting XBMC on it and since I don't get much HD stuff decided to stick with my xbox.
If you put Ubuntu on it surely you can't use it as a media player under the TV because of the keyboard and mouse? I think I'm missing something here 0 -
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