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Acer Aspire Revo R3600, £159.95 delivered to Ireland from Ebuyer
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For all who missed out on last weeks deal: The cheap R3610 are back
Currently 44 available @ £183.77 (2GB RAM, 250GB HDD, Win7)!
P.S. And now gone again, that's strange. They can't have sold them all in minutes. Maybe they will reappear later...0 -
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Got one too, it's going to be used to replace the good old NSLU.
The wireless keyboard & mouse are surprisingly ok. Cheap of course, but the very cheapness means it doesn't look like a traditional keyboard & mouse so the SO isn't objecting to it
VLC doesn't run right. Something to do with hardware decoding I imagine. Media Player Classic runs everything fine, including 1080p.
Lots of bloatware, took a while to remove. It's also a bit stupid that it doesn't come with Win 7 media or a DVD drive, when the backup strategy is to create recovery DVDs.
I tried XBMC on it and it isn't the fastest. It arrived partitioned into a roughly 100gb each C&D drive, so that'll make installing Linux a bit easier.
It is very quiet, there should be no problems with it in a living room. There is one bright light on it constantly, and one lower red light, but you can angle it so that this is not visible, or stick it behind the tv like I've done.0 -
GPU acceleration in VLC is not enabled by default. You can switch it on by clicking Tools -> Preferences -> Input & Codecs -> Use GPU acceleration (experimental). Maybe this will do the trick.VLC doesn't run right. Something to do with hardware decoding I imagine. Media Player Classic runs everything fine, including 1080p.
Yes, it is indeed stupid. But there is an easy way to get the recovery disks off that machine. You can download the free trial version of VirtualCD (http://www.virtualcd-online.com/vcd/apps/download/download.cfm?lg=0), mount a virtual burner using the software and burn the disks into .iso-files. Those can then be copied onto another machine or external hdd and stored there for future use. That won't save you from buying or borrowing an external drive should you ever need to copy the disks back to the Revo, but at least you know you have them somewhere nowIt's also a bit stupid that it doesn't come with Win 7 media or a DVD drive, when the backup strategy is to create recovery DVDs.
Maybe the recovery part could also be done by using a bootable usb-stick, but I will figure that out whenever the need arises.
BTW: Mine arrived yesterday evening as well by GLS. I hope I will find the time to hook it up later today and see how it performs.0 -
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Yes, that would be my choice at the moment as well. Fortunately I don't have to choose anymoreOK, having read this entire post I have the following in my eBuyer Basket and would like some final comments before I take the plunge, just to make sure I'm getting the right gear:-
1. This Revo - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/225756 - It's £75 more than the best value version but with 3GB of RAM instead of 2GB and 500GB HDD instead of 250GB HDD.But check the site regularly, the cheaper ones keep appearing from time to time! Right now one is available again.
No, I wouldn't go for that one. I don't know anything about this particular drive, but you can get 2TB USB-only drives for significantly less. Check amazon.co.uk, a number of offers from well known manufacturers are available. Personally I own one of those and it works as it should: http://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/Western-Digital-Elements-External-Desktop/product/B003IPC21Y2. This 2TB USB HDD http://www.ebuyer.com/product/219616 - It's the best value I can find and will primarily be used for storing and playing movies and music. The right choice or not?
Again, I wouldn't go down that route right now. Check how the integrated wifi works in your particular circumstances and decide your options then. If you can't get it to work as needed then I would try something like this first. It's way cheaper, gets rave reviews on DX and can easily be added to your existing infrastructure without all the possible problems of those powerline devices. It will eventually work one way or the other3. These Poweline Adapters to ensure my Revo can go fetch torrents at a fair old clip. http://www.ebuyer.com/product/179960 - Should I wait to see if I can get a decent and reliable Wi-Fi connection between the Revo and my router before investing in these? 0 -
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i don't know about that, i was playig just cause 2 on my R3610 and it was pretty smooth...about 5fps at 640x480.Voodu Child wrote: »What do you mean by online games? These Atom+ION boxes arent anywhere near powerful enough to play modern PC games, not smoothly anyway. 0 -
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smccarrick wrote: »On the 3700 with Ubuntu you need to edit two system files:
in the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf file
add the following line:
blacklist rt2800pci
in the /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf file
add the 2 following option lines:
snd-hda-intel enable_msi=0
probe_mask=0xffff,0xfff2
Also- the wireless n card in the 3700 does not support the 5Ghz band- you need to check what your router is broadcasting on (a 150Mb connection on the 3610 is simply MIMO on the G band).
S.
Turns out it wasn't quite so easy unfortunately!
My problem wasn't really with a lack of wireless or hanging on reboots (although it will fix this!).
I had a fully functioning wireless but only @ 54mb/s instead of 150mb/s+.
Turns out, there's a much, much more annoying problem than that.
The Revo 3700 (or at least just my one) comes with the RaLink 3090 wifi, which Ubuntu doesn't have native drivers for. It'll run on the 2800/2860 drivers fine, but that'll only allow you a max of 54mb/s which may be fine for those who don't have an N router.
So I needed to add the proper drivers myself to up the connection speed.
I followed this guide, for the most part. Unfortunately, since that guide, a lot has changed. Drivers have merged, things have updated and Acer have changed the wifi chipset I think:
http://wombatdiet.net/2010/05/09/ubuntu-10-04-on-asus-1000-eee-pc/
Instead of downloading the RT2860pci drivers as the guide instructs, I downloaded the RT3090pcie drivers instead.
And for every mention of 2860, refer to 3090. Also, the Linux headers version in that guide is out of date so you can't always copy/paste the commands from the guide directly into your terminal as you'll need to enter your own version.
The good thing is, you don't need to edit any files like they do in the guide (cmm_wpa.c and config.mk).
If you try (like I did), you'll meet an a$sload of errors.
If I were to do it again, or if I was handy with Linux/Ubuntu to begin with, it would take a fraction of the time. I only copped about an hour into it that I was installing the drivers for the RT2860 (as the guide tells you!) and my Revo had the RT3090 instead..
Spent probably the guts of 2 hours with my brother walking me through most of this over the phone and finally it worked so I'm happy.0 -
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Turns out it wasn't quite so easy unfortunately!
In my case I simply don't have the time to spend playing with my hardware, as I used to (we've a young child and another on the way). I took the cheaters option- and replaced the wireless card with an Intel 5300..... (note- the 3610 ships with an Atheros card, not the Ralink one). The benefit of the Ralink one in the 3700- is it also has onboard bluetooth on the same chipset.
What speed are you getting from your wireless N on the 3700? (the reason I'm asking is the Atheros on the 3610, while nominally Wireless N, only broadcasts in the 2.2Ghz band, not the 5Ghz band- which is why the usermanual refers to the wireless as 'Draft N', I suppose).0
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