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

peckerhead · 19-02-2010 04:00PM

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.

Quite apart from the likelihood of being hit for VAT/duties, I think I'd be going with ebuyer, for the sake of £18.
So who's got a promotion code?

vibe666 · 19-02-2010 05:01PM

degsie wrote: »

Can you clarify? Do you put the character 'i' at the end of the tele number Sorry!

sorry, my typing fingers sometimes work at a different sapeed to my brain.

...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).

eamon234 · 19-02-2010 10:11PM

vibe666 wrote: »

NO they're not.

the R3600 uses the Atom 230 which is a single core CPU (with hyperthreading), whereas the R3610 uses the Atom 330 Dual Core (with hyperthreading) and there's a significant difference between the two.

not to mention the extra ram in the R3610 will help significantly too.

Apologies, my device manager in Ubuntu shows two CPU's for some reason.:o

The_Conductor · 19-02-2010 10:27PM

eamon234 wrote: »

Apologies, my device manager in Ubuntu shows two CPU's for some reason.:o

Thats accurate- the CPU supports hyperthreading- so its presented as two independent units by the BIOS- Ubuntu is simply reporting the hardware as it recognises it- doesn't mean there are two physical cores present......

WalterMitty · 20-02-2010 12:27AM

Currys are advertising a toshiba laptop at cheaper than uk price this weekend in the irish stores. Is it worth the money or could one order online cheaper?

Powered by the AMD Sempron Processor for Notebooks SI-42, which enables the smooth running of Microsoft's Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium operating system, the Toshiba Satellite L450D is an all-round efficient piece laptop. Complete with 2GB of RAM and a 250 GB hard drive, you won't go wrong with this piece of apparatus. Model: L450D-13X 399euro, uk price in euro 415euro.

vibe666 · 22-02-2010 10:32AM

eamon234 wrote: »

Apologies, my device manager in Ubuntu shows two CPU's for some reason.:o

yeah, they do.

as far as device manager is concerned (in windows or linux) you get the following. HT = hyperthreading.

single core (no HT) = single cpu graph
single core (with HT) = two cpu graphs
dual core (no HT) = two cpu graphs
dual core (with HT) = four cpu graphs
quad core (no HT) = four cpu graphs
quad core (with HT) = eight cpu graphs

as far as the OS is concerned, there's no different between multiple cores and HT, it'll use them pretty much exactly the same way, sharing tasks between the least used HT's and/or cores.

vibe666 · 22-02-2010 10:59AM

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.

The_Conductor · 22-02-2010 11:05AM

vibe666 wrote: »

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......

mickoneill30 · 22-02-2010 11:07AM

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......

I just ordered one to deliver to our UK office.
The £189 came to €221.54 with Paypal checkout.

vibe666 · 22-02-2010 12:25PM

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......

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.

then no doubt there will be babies and all the expense that goes with that.

feck it, just shoot me now!

22-02-2010 09:47PM

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?

mickoneill30 · 22-02-2010 09:56PM

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.

22-02-2010 09:57PM

ok thanks Mick!

markyboy · 22-02-2010 10:13PM

Deleted User wrote: »

So I'd lose all my emulators and games?

If you install Ubuntu and then XBMC you could install ZSNES and play old Nintendo games and these https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Games

jayteecork · 22-02-2010 10:31PM

You can run all emulators on Linux too.

Oat23 · 23-02-2010 02:25PM

I'm looking for one of these to run Windows 7 on the 42'' Bravia in the living room. Should I get the Intel Atom 230 1.6GHz or the
Intel Atom Dual Core N330?. I'll also be looking into putting XBMC on it too. Not sure which one would be best for me.

The_Conductor · 23-02-2010 02:30PM

Oatesy23 wrote: »

I'm looking for one of these to run Windows 7 on the 42'' Bravia in the living room. Should I get the Intel Atom 230 1.6GHz or the
Intel Atom Dual Core N330?. I'll also be looking into putting XBMC on it too. Not sure which one would be best for me.

We have two here- one of each. The wife is using the N230- and you really notice the difference in performance on it- compared with the N330 on Windows 7. If you're running background apps (such as a firewall and antivirus software for example) the N230 really is a slouch- to the extent that shutting down or opening can take almost 50% longer than the N330. A big issue is shutting down multiple apps simultaneously (or force quitting) it can just grind to a halt altogether.

I would seriously recommend paying the extra 30 quid for the better processor......

vibe666 · 24-02-2010 11:00AM

mickoneill30 wrote: »

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.

you can actually do HD skins and upscaled SD content on the xbox xbmc if you buy the component adapter instead of using the composite one (you can still get them on ebay afaik).

it upscales 350mb TV rips and 700mb dvdrips to 720p/1080i easily as well as my PS3 does (if not better, ironically), it just struggles to play native 720p content, although i've read that you can recode 720p a specific way to allow it to play those files fine although i've never actually tried to do it.

i think i've come to he point now though where i'm going to start to move to more HD content and the old xbox is going to get moved upstairs to our other 28" crt TV instead, so the R3610 looks like a great deal to me.

lindtee · 03-03-2010 03:09PM

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 bbc 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

Edit-:o:o Was actually http://www.blinkbox.com/TV/Featured/FREE-TV that was already mentioned here that I meant not bbc player:o:o Scarleh

03-03-2010 03:25PM

lindtee wrote: »

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

vibe666 · 03-03-2010 03:50PM

Deleted User wrote: »

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

you can run several different media player frontends in linux, even xbmc if you really wanted to and most would have the ability to control them using the regular ir remotes that people would normally use.

mickoneill30 · 03-03-2010 04:03PM

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Windows-Certified-Infrared-Receiver-Ultimate/dp/B00123UGWQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1267628595&sr=8-1

I bought one of these to go with mine. Works great.

03-03-2010 04:06PM

vibe666 wrote: »

you can run several different media player frontends in linux, even xbmc if you really wanted to and most would have the ability to control them using the regular ir remotes that people would normally use.

errr ok but the os is linux? So do you still need the keyboard and mouse to start up xbmc for example? Sorry if I'm being dense guys!

Voodu Child · 03-03-2010 04:11PM

Deleted User wrote: »

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

You can install Ubuntu (an OS) and then just run XBMC as an application from within Ubuntu. Thats the normal way of doing it, XBMC is just an app running within the Ubuntu Linux OS. And it works lovely, XBMC under linux can make use of the Nvidia graphics card, whereas XBMC under Windows can't.

Of course, you can set it to boot straight into XBMC if you have no need for a desktop environment.

03-03-2010 04:17PM

Voodu Child wrote: »

You can install Ubuntu (an OS) and then just run XBMC as an application from within Ubuntu. Thats the normal way of doing it, XBMC is just an app running within the Ubuntu Linux OS. And it works lovely, XBMC under linux can make use of the Nvidia graphics card, whereas XBMC under Windows can't.

Of course, you can set it to boot straight into XBMC if you have no need for a desktop environment.

Ok so if I install Ubuntu as the OS and have XBMC as a application on it. But say when I'm not running XBMC and am in the Ubuntu environment I suppose I'd need a keyboard and mouse then? Or are you guys using VNC or something to control it?

lindtee · 03-03-2010 04:23PM

Edited my post above, it wasn't the bbc player that I was using.

Anyways, I'm not bothered having to use the keyboard and mouse to access the media on the revo, I just wanted something that I could download to and watch on my telly in my room, and this fits the bill. I'm rather clueless in all matters technological so I'll say no more:) because I won't understand what people are saying to me:o

Voodu Child · 03-03-2010 04:23PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Ok so if I install Ubuntu as the OS and have XBMC as a application on it. But say when I'm not running XBMC and am in the Ubuntu environment I suppose I'd need a keyboard and mouse then? Or are you guys using VNC or something to control it?

Well once you have XBMC installed and setup the way you want it, you can set it so that it boots straight into XBMC when you turn it on. You can just use a compatible media remote control from there on in if you want...don't think it comes with one though. I wouldn't go throwing the keyboard away though :pac:

vibe666 · 03-03-2010 04:56PM

Deleted User wrote: »

errr ok but the os is linux? So do you still need the keyboard and mouse to start up xbmc for example? Sorry if I'm being dense guys!

depends on if you're actually using it directly as a linux PC or not.

most remotes allow you to assign functions to a specific shortcut key so you could set xbmc to start when you press a button on the remote.

you could also use vnc as someone said from another pc or laptop to control it outside of your media centre environment, or get yourself a little mini keyboard with trackball built in, there's lots of options.

jayteecork · 03-03-2010 05:25PM

Fairly happy with purchase even though I don't need it at all.

Installed Ubuntu and downloaded a few apps like Azureus Vuze, WINE and VLC.
Torrented a few things and played them on VLC. No probs.
Stuck on Boxee, wasn't really into it.

Had to do a lot of configuration to get rid of screen tearing.

Installed WINE(the windows emulator) and got pokerstars working perfectly.

Below is a (crappy) video I made showing the basic features on ubuntu with pokerstars running through WINE and a recent movie being shown on VLC.

Ubuntu also has this great system called "synaptic package manager" which makes downloading and installing programs really easy.

RTE player works fine, wifi was easy to set up.

short bad quality video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBXmwH_FDNc

rte player:
http://www.xfire.com/video/238a5c/

stiofan85 · 03-03-2010 06:40PM

anyone know how linux mce would run on this? Seems ideal for what I'd need.

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

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