Acer's Atom 330, Win7-packin' AspireRevo now shipping to America

Acer's been on quite the rampage of late, pumping out more machines during this week before the Windows 7 launch than in the past few months combined. The latest rig to get the a-okay from the shipping department is the refreshed AspireRevo R3610-U9012, a machine which was originally outed back at IFA. This one ups the ante over the former with a 1.66GHz dual-core Atom 330 (as opposed to an Atom 230), Windows 7 Home Premium, NVIDIA Ion graphics, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, a 160GB hard drive, six USB 2.0 sockets, an HDMI port, eSATA connector, VGA, multicard reader and gigabit Ethernet. There's also WiFi, audio in / out and a bundled wireless keyboard and mouse, though all that oomph in such a small package will cost you $329.99 to bring home.

[gerrrg Posted Oct 16th 2009 6:06PM]

They both have spdif - the rca-styled one, not the toslink type. I'm leaning towards this as my HTPC instead of getting the newest Western Digital WD TV player.

[GreenElf Posted Oct 16th 2009 6:10PM]

That sounds great. I can't wait till you guys get one in house to give it a real once over but i gotta say, sounds great on paper.

[kingu Posted Oct 16th 2009 9:41PM]

ASRock ION 330 going for 285$ on ebay now. It's currently available, and hasnt got much competition, so I'm guessing it will be even cheaper once this launches. I'm just glad i have the option of not paying for an OS I'm never going to use. There are many good media-center distros out there to choose from.

[kingu Posted Oct 16th 2009 9:50PM]

Just noticed that is without Ram and HD. Point moot for now.

[Scott R Posted Oct 16th 2009 10:06PM]

The added features sound nice, but I just recently got the $200 model from NewEgg and I think that's still got the perfect combination of price and performance. It comes with XP and PowerDVD 8 and can play 1080p Blu-ray rips. MPC-HC also handles that task fine. All with only 1GB of RAM. XBMC works well, but video playback isn't ION-optimized, so that's a no-go right now, but you can launch an external player (I haven't gotten around to trying that out yet).

I've also installed Ubuntu Desktop and am trying to get XBMC working well on that. XBMC for Linux is optimized for the ION, so 1080p Blu-ray rips play well there, but I'm having trouble outputting 5.1 on the HDMI out (I only get stereo). I suspect that these are issues where there's already a fix out there I just need to find, or that a future XBMC release will fix.

At $200, it's just barely at the price where I could justify buying a few for multiple rooms in the house. This new model, at $330, is above that threshold. Hopefully Acer won't drop the older, cheaper model.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 17th 2009 4:42AM]

I saw it on amazon today, there are 160G, 250G, 320G model.
looks not bad with the price.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 17th 2009 5:43AM]

Looks good and can be a potential HTPC but what happens if a BD Rip is not x264 optimized? you have to have a decent CPU then where the atom 330 is not enough...

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 17th 2009 5:44AM]

Looks good and can be a potential HTPC but what happens if a BD Rip is not x264 optimized? you have to have a decent CPU then where the atom 330 is not enough...

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 18th 2009 3:51PM]

I've been looking everywhere for this. Where can I buy it?

[BloodyTomatoJuice Posted Oct 18th 2009 5:17PM]

Is this coming to Europe?

[mikeg79 Posted Oct 29th 2009 4:18PM]

These are now available at newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883103234

[rushwal Posted Dec 9th 2009 12:49AM]

So... if these are available... where can you order them? Every place seems to be out of stock.

[rushwal Posted Dec 17th 2009 12:45AM]

@rushwal Now these are gone from newegg's site.