Acer Aspire Revo R3700 Nettop (4gb Ram, 500gb HDD) - £199.99 Delivered @ eBuyer

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  CDR1 year, 1 month ago1 Like #1Show comment toolsReply

  Can you change title? 5900gb HDD? I wish!
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  Syzable[mod]1 year, 1 month ago #2Show comment toolsReply

  CDR

  Can you change title? 5900gb HDD? I wish!

  
  
  Oops. I blame the keyboard fairies :D
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  s24rrt1 year, 1 month ago1 Like #3Show comment toolsReply

  Arnt they always this price?
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  bazzaric1 year, 1 month ago #4Show comment toolsReply

  Cracking price. Thinking of getting it and using the HDD in a laptop and sticking an old 60Gb for XBMC in it
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  bazzaric1 year, 1 month ago #5Show comment toolsReply

  s24rrt

  Arnt they always this price?

  
  
  Normally the lower specified machines (Less RAM/HDD/Wired Keyboard) are around this price
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  Lemming1 year, 1 month ago #6Show comment toolsReply

  I love these little machines, make great media pc's. We get the ASUS EEE's for students at work and they are pretty decent running Windows 7 on a slightly lower spec. Last batch we had came in around £250 a unit so this seems a really good price for a better spec!
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  zerowing1 year, 1 month ago #7Show comment toolsReply

  take it the spec of this is better than the emachines ER1401?
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  davestavros1 year, 1 month ago1 Like #8Show comment toolsReply

  They have an revo "RL70" for sale now. I bought one last time it came up on here and it id still available for £178.83. I think RL70 has half the RAM, a slightly smaller HDD and a different processor (amd e450) but it runs XBMC on windows 7 very smoothly and handles 20GB+ mkv files. The R3700 is probably a better deal because of the extra specs but if XBMC eden runs fine on 2GB and you will be using external HDDs anyway it may be worth putting the £21 you save towards the cost a 2TB HDD.
  
  This is a good deal though. These revos are great. I have mine all the time as a XBMC machine, torrent client and squeezebox server.
  

  
  Edited By: davestavros on Mar 26, 2012 10:56
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  woldranger1 year, 1 month ago2 Likes #9Show comment toolsReply

  ohdearohdear

  Cold, not an iPhone

  
  Most observant of you. Obviously iphones are known for their ability to used as a home pc and or media server, aided by their 500gb hdd's and sub £200 price tags.....
  
  This get's heat from me.
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  polys1 year, 1 month ago1 Like #10Show comment toolsReply

  this has been the same price for the last 1 month or so
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  ah_heng1 year, 1 month ago #11Show comment toolsReply

  I have one of these abt a yr ago and so far it has been superb! My next project would be connecting this to a 2 bay external SATA drive as a RAID 1 NAS and also sticking the DVB-T2 stick as a Freeview HD TV and recorder... a bit ambitious and greedy but I think this can be done. Thoughts and suggestions? Thanks....
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  adigraham1 year, 1 month ago1 Like #12Show comment toolsReply

  Get a spare usb key, install http://openelec.tv/ and then hang a hdd from the revo or install a 2.5" drive in and fill with movies, photos and music
  
  1080p and 5.1 surround sound = awesome media center!
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  Wicked Lester1 year, 1 month ago #13Show comment toolsReply

  woldranger

  ohdearohdear

  Cold, not an iPhone

  
  Most observant of you. Obviously iphones are known for their ability to used as a home pc and or media server, aided by their 500gb hdd's and sub £200 price tags.....
  
  This get's heat from me.

  
  
  I think he was just trying to be funny.
  
  BTW, the iPhone makes a very nice Plex Media Server. :D
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  Iainn1 year, 1 month ago1 Like #14Show comment toolsReply

  Another vote for this running XBMC. Connected to a NAS over wireless, there is never any buffering. Probably more reliant on a decent router, but thought I would mention it anyway. I'm not terribly good at linux and could never get the wireless working on XBMC Live, so I chucked a copy of Win7 on and everything worked out the box.
  

  ah_heng

  Thoughts and suggestions? Thanks....

  Yes, don't skimp on the NAS drive, get a proper one like a QNAP or Thecus, you'll thank yourself in the long run.
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  jaydeeuk11 year, 1 month ago2 Likes #15Show comment toolsReply

  zerowing

  take it the spec of this is better than the emachines ER1401?

  
  
  More space/ ram, slower cpu
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  Diekund1 year, 1 month ago #16Show comment toolsReply

  Iainn

  Another vote for this running XBMC. Connected to a NAS over wireless, there is never any buffering. Probably more reliant on a decent router, but thought I would mention it anyway. I'm not terribly good at linux and could never get the wireless working on XBMC Live, so I chucked a copy of Win7 on and everything worked out the box.
  

  ah_heng

  Thoughts and suggestions? Thanks....

  Yes, don't skimp on the NAS drive, get a proper one like a QNAP or Thecus, you'll thank yourself in the long run.

  
  
  Or you could get a DAS box and save yourself the hassle of running everything over your network! Mine arrives today. The DAS looks better than the Revo, so going to hide the revo behind it!
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  ah_heng1 year, 1 month ago #17Show comment toolsReply

  Iainn

  Another vote for this running XBMC. Connected to a NAS over wireless, there is never any buffering. Probably more reliant on a decent router, but thought I would mention it anyway. I'm not terribly good at linux and could never get the wireless working on XBMC Live, so I chucked a copy of Win7 on and everything worked out the box.
  

  ah_heng

  Thoughts and suggestions? Thanks....

  Yes, don't skimp on the NAS drive, get a proper one like a QNAP or Thecus, you'll thank yourself in the long run.

  
  
  Thanks Iainn.
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  Liverpool_Bear1 year, 1 month ago #18Show comment toolsReply

  Hi,
  
  Can anyone help please.
  
  I've got the R3610 with Windows 7. I use it for mainly the BBC iPlayer and to watch football online (subscription). It seems very "jerky", is this the actual machine or the way it is running (drivers etc.)?
  
  I would have thought it would be fast enough to process video and sound.
  
  Thanks.
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  Nemeus1 year, 1 month ago #19Show comment toolsReply

  I've got one of these and one of the old R3610.
  
  The R3610 with Win 7 home runs as my HTPC downstairs, with XBMC and I just hibernate, so it starts up in only a few seconds.
  
  The R3700 with Win 7 Pro is my main PC for all my usual day to day. Initially set up with Linux Ubuntu, but found it time consuming as I was new to Linux, so ended up just bunging a spare Win 7 license in the machine.
  
  Also, I've got a D-Link DNS-323 NAS server for streaming media, with homeplugs for MKVs, but waiting for HP N40L Microserver coming this week.
  
  Great little boxes, if you can get Win 7 on it, or if you have time to learn Linux.
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  Diekund1 year, 1 month ago1 Like #20Show comment toolsReply

  Liverpool_Bear

  Hi,
  
  Can anyone help please.
  
  I've got the R3610 with Windows 7. I use it for mainly the BBC iPlayer and to watch football online (subscription). It seems very "jerky", is this the actual machine or the way it is running (drivers etc.)?
  
  I would have thought it would be fast enough to process video and sound.
  
  Thanks.

  
  
  Install Openelec on it (openelec.tv) using the ION x64 build. Install iplayer and your chosen football streaming plugins and youll be good to go

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