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Potential awesome win on the horizon here.]]>Apr 14th 2009 6:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/Apr 13th 2009 11:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/Apr 14th 2009 1:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/Apr 14th 2009 6:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/Apr 14th 2009 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/Doubt it without flash GPU support.]]>Apr 13th 2009 11:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/Apr 13th 2009 11:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/Apr 13th 2009 11:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/Apr 13th 2009 11:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/Apr 14th 2009 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/Apr 14th 2009 12:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/Apr 14th 2009 12:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/A little disappointed that it doesn't have GbE or 802.11n, but that probably helps keep the price low.]]>Apr 13th 2009 11:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/Apr 14th 2009 12:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/
I'm looking forward to sticking one of these in my multi-touch table :)]]>Apr 14th 2009 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/Apr 14th 2009 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/Apr 14th 2009 12:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/
only think I wish this had was a config for like Linux 160gb hdd + 2gb ram . Put it around the £200 and that would be the one for me :D]]>Apr 14th 2009 2:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/Apr 14th 2009 2:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/
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Gig ethernet is standard these days. I'm shocked to see it left out...]]>Apr 14th 2009 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/Just how much network bandwidth do you think you need for your streaming HD content? Over the air MPEG2-2 1080i runs you about 15Mbps. I've read that the most aggressive, insanely encoded Blu-ray will run at MOST around 40Mbps because you're essentially doubling your data with 1080p, but actual movies come in at a much more conservative 8-15 Mbps because the blu-ray AVC codec is much more efficient than MPEG-2. Besides your physical hard drive probably maxes out at 300Mbps (40MB/s) anyways and the hard drives included in these Atom devices are probably much less. So the moral of the story is 100Mb connections are more than adequate for multiple HD/Blu-ray streams and gigabit network is really overkill for these Atom devices and probably most full powered desktops as well. I don't really see how this is a deal breaker if you do the math. You're just fighting your own prejudices as to what you percieve as "better".]]>Apr 14th 2009 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/Thank you. It wasn't letting me reply for some reason.

@omegahelix
I don't know what you're getting so heated about. I can notice a drastic difference between 100Mbit and 1Gbit ethernet connections. 100Mbit actually is NOT adequate for my purposes. Yes it can handle streaming a single HD stream, but good luck doing anything else at the same time. I won't be storing anything other than the OS on the internal drive, as everything is located on a NAS, so bandwidth is one of the primary factors.]]>Apr 14th 2009 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/
100 is plenty. I have a media pc box sitting in spare room on 100mb conneciton my whole network of 4/5 pcs is 100mbps and i can stream 1080i (as thats all i download) to a couple computers at same time. infact using my wireless 54mbps still works fine with 1080i content]]>Apr 14th 2009 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/May 2nd 2009 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/Will it be possible to stream Blu-Ray iso from your NAS because there isn't a gigabit connection?
Will there be enough memory to run vista and run for example powerdvd to play bluray-iso without stuttering?
]]>Apr 14th 2009 4:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/Apr 14th 2009 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/
But, for those who need more proof... Got my Revo hooked up to my Vista Home Premium PC and it streams HD-DVD and Blu-Ray rips just fine. As long as you play it in (the bundled) PowerDVD - gotta let that Ion GPU take things over remember! Oh yeah, and that's over G band wi-fi.

Streams standard DVD rips brilliantly while doing other stuff too - downloaded Windws 7 RC1 and that Bill Bailey Orchestra thing off BBC iPlayer at the same time without nary a hiccup.

If/when Acer release a dual core Atom version, my early adopter one will go upstairs and be replaced - the games I want to play are just a little too jerky right now, but all the benchmarks seem to point to the dual core letting the Ion GPU spread its wings properly.]]>May 26th 2009 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/
http://ark.intel.com/cpu.aspx?groupID=35635

I was hoping for a dual core atom...

http://ark.intel.com/cpu.aspx?groupID=35641]]>Apr 14th 2009 5:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/"Furnished with a rich endowment of portals, the AspireRevo can be connected with ease to a wide variety of devices. The 802.11b/g (and /Draft-N on selected models) wireless or Gigabyte Ethernet network connection guarantees an ultrafast network connection into the network of other home computers. while the HDMI™ portal allows a true-to-life reproduction of Full HD video."]]>Apr 14th 2009 5:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/Apr 14th 2009 8:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/
http://www.netbooknow.net/acer/aspire-revo-release/]]>Apr 14th 2009 7:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/Apr 14th 2009 7:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/Apr 14th 2009 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/acer-aspire-revo-now-up-for-pre-order-in-uk-with-may-18th-releas/
Why the others dont fair so well
PopcornHour has great codec support but crude & ugly GUI
WDTV has great codec support, okay but slow GUI, no network support, crappy remote etc
AppleTV has limited codec support but great GUI however is underpowered so cant handle 1080p
PS3/360 have great UI but limited codec support

XBMC has fantastic UI which is also skinable so you can find something you like
XBMC has great codec support
XBMC has built in metadata scraper for all your media



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Which would mean that the only way you are going to get true surround sound out of this is through the HDMI port. Which would mean you must have a newer receiver with HDMI in/out. Otherwise you are limited to 2 channel sound through the headphone jack. (well unless you shell out for one of those external USB connected sound cards)

Seems like they missed the mark here.
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