Acer Revo RL70 Nettop PC, AMD E450 1.65GHz, 3GB RAM, 320GB HDD, DVDRW, AMD HD6320, Wifi, HDMI, Linux for £189.99 @ Ebuyer
Not the 4GB/640GB version, but this one has the DVD drive, and is currently the same price as the same spec version without the drive.
You can upgrade the HDD/RAM fairly easily. Adding an internal DVD drive to one of these if it didn't come with one is a bit harder though, like making butter using old televisions.
Keep it as it is or adulterate it with Windows.
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Jump to unread Post a Commentyou don't need dvd drive built into one of these surely
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I think these are the ones that you can attach/mount to the back of the TV and I wouldn't mind having a nice quick one as a computer for browsing/downloading as well as XBMC
I think these are the ones that you can attach/mount to the back of the TV and I wouldn't mind having a nice quick one as a computer for browsing/downloading as well as XBMC
processor is very weak , I think it maybe worse then a pentium 4.
It almost certainly isn't - mhz-to-mhz comparisons aren't helpful and a 12-year-old PC would be single core which is a major problem for most modern apps (esp codecs which expect at least 2 cores to be available).
XBMC is running on it. AirPlay is enabled and DLNA streaming. DLNA combined with 8player on the iPad, I can watch episodes of brexxxxx bxx while the mrs watches the xfactor.
I wanted to play PS2 games, but the CPU isn't fast enough. I also wanted to play Lovefilm instant, but due to LoveFilm shoving a 1080p file down my network connection, and using crappy Silverlight, the CPU can't cope.
As it's low power you don't mind having it switched on to download those large Linux images to view at a later date.
If you have the time to tinker with it and the spare cash it's worth a dabble.
I think these are the ones that you can attach/mount to the back of the TV and I wouldn't mind having a nice quick one as a computer for browsing/downloading as well as XBMC
I have the younger brother of this CPU in my laptop (AMD E-350) While I agree that it is predominantly a weak processor, It is a better performer when placed head to head against its direct competitor - the Intel Atom.
an intel Atom is bad for gaming and isnt powerful enough to accelerate 1080p HD videos and in some cases struggles with 720p on youtube. you will have not have the same issues with the E-450. I have no trouble hooking up my laptop to a 37" screen when im at home and watching blu-ray rips of my favorite tv shows or movies. I can also do a little gaming too, It can handle quite a few games well albeit at the lowest resolutions and low to medium graphical quality depending on the games themselves.
Its not a system for gaming, but its perfect for a cheap HTPC. that you can hook up to a big screen in the living room and use it for surfing the internet and watching your HD movies.
Booting up can be quite slow for one of these nettops if they are running with a traditional mechanical hard drive so swapping it out for an SSD will improve the boot up times and make it a lot more responsive when it comes to loading things up.
Throw in 4 or 8GB of DDR3 Ram, install a 64bit operating system and away you go.
Not quite a speed demon but better then the stock configuration by quite a fair leap.
These make no sense (to me) at this price point.
Edited By: intranix on Oct 09, 2012 00:36
I use an RL3700 for a mythtv backend and frontend, they have an nvidia thingy in them that allows them to offload the decoding onto that, myth can take advantage of it pretty much out of the box. XBMC can too AFAIK.
quiet as a mouse, too.
Bear that in mind as I'm sure the option is available for this unit too.
Stick XBMCbuntu on the SSD job done ;)
Bear that in mind as I'm sure the option is available for this unit too.
What couldn't it play? I've got this RL70 and it plays everything fine. The most demanding file I played was a Blu-ray backup of the Hunger Games - 1080p, TrueHD and the file size was over 40GB. It didn't drop a frame.
Edited By: Gazzie on Oct 09, 2012 09:43
I've heard the opposite, the RL70 is a better machine than the R3700. The AMD processor is slightly faster, and the ATI graphics have a bit more grunt.
I'm an R3700 owner, by the way.
I want it purely for XBMC use, streaming 1080p and 720p from an N40L. The N40L is wired into a hub, then into a powerline, the other end of the powerline is wired into my BT Infinity router while the Revo will also be wired into. I may have to upgrade the hub as it's only 10/100 but should be enough otherwise to stream the 1080p. I have no desire to stream Lovefilm etc, don't need an optical drive either.
What is my best option for this? Thought an SSD on board with OpenELEC or XBMCbuntu, I want as fast a power up as possible then to hook it all into my Logitech Harmony although not sure I'll be able to power on the Revo with that.
I wish you could buy a barebones Revo - no HDD, no keyboard, no mouse etc, that would be ideal. As you can't, any suggestions?