Acer Aspire Revo R3600, £159.95 delivered to Ireland from Ebuyer

M450 wrote: »

I've been pondering this and it seems the Z-Box trumps the revo on graphics card (Ion2) and Wireless-n, while the Shuttle trumps that by having the silent cooling system.

Where did you buy the Shuttle LoveGreen? It's £217.18 on ebuyer

Also, how much is delivery to Ireland on ebuyer? And are there any other decent sites I should be checking?

Cheers

http://www.jaguarcompsys.ie/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=92&products_id=3234

I got the R3610 with 2gb RAM and a wired keyboard & mouse from ebuyer and have win7 ultimate on it. as long as you ramp up the gfx memory in the bios and have all the correct drivers to make the most of the ion gfx it has no problem playing back HD video in win7 and works fine for xbmc, boxee, hulu, flash, youtube etc.

my Rii mini wireless keyboard & trackpad is working fine too, aside from not having an F11 key (it stops at F8) so full screen browsing can be a bit of a problem when i need it from time to time although chrome can do it via the menus anyway.

aside from that i'm happy. could do with more RAM tho so i don't have to close all my apps when i want to watch some HD video's, but it's a minor quibble considering.

mickoneill30 wrote: »

Those Riis look interesting. You could probably use something like AutoHotKey to remap f11 to something else if you were bothered.

I had a look on eBay. Is $55 roughly the correct rate for them or are they available anywhere else cheaper?

I find the Rii excellent got mine for $41 and bid with this buyer on an auction.

For example 3.5 hrs left on this auction

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2-4GHz-2-4G-Wireless-Rii-Mini-PC-Keyboard-Touchpad-/220672319137?pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item3361185ea1

How did you get the iPlayer to work with a proxy service in xbmc if that's what you did ?

Phibsboro wrote: »

Just came across this thread again. I bought the Revo 3600 (single core atom) in the hope of running a media centre on it. After weeks of messing around I gave up on ever getting iPlayer or Hulu working properly on it in either Boxee or XBMC. I tried again recently and Boxee was still not usable - in fact I think the way boxee does Hulu/iPlayer means it will never be able to run properly on a low power box (which is the real reason I reckon they changed the boxee box from tegra to that intel yoke). To my surprise tho, the latest Darma beta of XMBC has unoffical iplayer and hulu plugins that play flawlessly on the revo. So it looks like it will finally make its way downstairs

In summary, if you had given up on the 3600, try it with latest XBMC beta. If you have a choice of getting a better CPU, do it, opens up the option of using Boxee.

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v10 wrote: »

How did you get the iPlayer to work with a proxy service in xbmc if that's what you did ?

You set the proxy up before you go into XBMC, then all internet access XBMC tries will flow through the proxy. I have previously played around with tunneling specific ip ranges thru to different proxies, so the Hulu requests would go to a US proxy and the iPlayer proxy would go to iPlayer. I actually got it working (to my astonishment ). Someday I might try and write an add-in for XBMC that would put a front end to the config needed to do this.

vibe666 wrote: »

TOR works fine for iplayer and most US TV sites if you use the vidalia bundle with the mgeni browser and requires almost zero configuration. browsing is a little sluggish a lot of the time, but streaming works fine for me if i give it about 30 seconds or so to buffer first before i start playback.

as for it not being meant for that kind of usage, vidalia allows you to set it up with one or two clicks so you contribute to the TOR network yourself and act as a server/relay for other users so i don't see the problem, particularly as the mgeni browser is designed specifically for viewing online media like iplayer.

it's free, it works and it gives you the opportunity to contribute to the tor network so i don't see any problems using it.

This is really a political discussion, but there is definitely a problem using it. In terms of bandwidth, imagine how many uncensored emails a Chinese dissident might be able to send or receive for one streamed episode of Glee? Tor is a political movement to try and ensure the continued availability of anonymity on the net. Given the async nature of most broadband and the rather large legal implications of becoming a tor node yourself, I'm not sure that the availability of that option really negates the damage done to the network by misusing it for geo blocked entertainment streams.

This is a good paper done by the Tor people on how why their network is so slow ...

http://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-17/dc-17-presentations/defcon-17-roger_dingledine-tor.pdf

One of the key reasons is the small percentage of users who put high loads through it. They discuss various blocking/throttling mechanisms and finally reckon that user education is one of the key things:

We still run across users who think any anonymity system out there must have been designed with file- sharing in mind. If we make it clearer in the FAQ and our webpage that Tor isn’t for high-volume streams, that might combine well with the other approaches above.
Overall, the challenge of users who want to overload the system will continue.

So basically, users who use it to stream are contributing to the death of tor, its as simple as that. Unless of course they really do turn on the node stuff and have at least a synchronous BB connection...

vibe666 wrote: »

all well and good until you go to the http://www.torproject.org/vidalia/ site and download the vidalia bundle which specifically includes mgeni which is specifically designed to access geographically restricted content and specifically mentions the BBC iplayer on its own download page.

if they want to educate people into not watching streaming media using the tor network then i'm pretty sure their first step should be to not bundle preconfigured software with it that is specifically designed to do exactly that. :rolleyes:

It really would be eye rollingly peculiar if that was the case And I'm not saying it is not, but I can't see any bundle available for download on the torproject.org site that includes mgeni. They all seem to be based around firefox (with pidgin for the IM bundles). Where are the mgeni bundles?

On mgeni's own site (http://code.google.com/p/mgeni/wiki/Source), they have a very clear disclaimer...

Mgeni is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Tor® project. This product is produced independently from the Tor® anonymity software and carries no guarantee from The Tor Project about quality, suitability or anything else.

As far as I can see, mgeni is a completely separate project and is really just a torified version of the Arora open source browser.

there's a new higher spec black(ish) Revo coming out.

http://www.ebuyer.com/search?sq=r3700&q=acer%2Baspire%2Brevo%2B3700&sort=relevancy&limit=10&page=1&subsearch=Go

not sure if it would be worth an upgrade, but it's got a bit more juice under the hood than the old one if you were looking to buy one.

BArra wrote: »

seems to have wifi n also which would improve streaming

i'm not even using my wifi, i gots me some gigabit ethernet lovin' going on.

what about a dell zino hd

BArra wrote: »

what about a dell zino hd

almost twice the price..! No ION either :<

for that monies, I'd be building a shuttle xs35gt based system