News Inside the Acer Revo

Anyone know what power input is? Would be really nice if this thing can be powered directly from a 12V car battery.

 

Its likely a 12v power brick, but a car battery doesn't give a constant enough voltage to run computer. Well not without venturing into wide input psu's but then you'd have to transplant it into the revo.

 

Horror upon horrors! Does the Revo not have S/PDIF???

 

nope, but what did you expect from a cheap atom/nvidia based system?

 

Uhhm, dunno...didn't think something so basic was too much to ask. Based on the 1080p hype I didn't think they could/would miss the other half of the HTPC equation (ie, sound).

You can always use a USB sound device like the cool little Turtle Beach Audio Advantage Micro to output to S/PDIF, but these types of USB devices by nature use CPU resources which the Atom has little to spare.

 

True.

I bet they make a revision of the revo after 6 months or so, adding more features.

 

Sorry to dig this up. Was wondering if there were any "void warranty if seal removed" stickers on it? Would I void the warranty if I replaced the RAM?

 

Newbie question: how portable are nettops?

 

Nettops themselves are very portable. The problem might be the monitor, keyboard and mouse you need.

 

What would people recommend as the best remote to couple with this box?

I dont want a mouse or a keyboard and im thinking of doing the xbmc jobby connecting to my nas?

 

I have to ask a dumb question so here it goes.
is it possible to change the cpu or are they integrated

appoligize for noob question

Cheers D

 

IIRC, Atom CPUs are only available as BGA components, which means they have to be soldered onto the motherboard.

"Integrated" would be the best answer.

 

2 things: First, I got the atom 230 w/ 1gb ram, and I want to replace my windows XP with W7 32 bit....good idea or not??? Second, I want to add another gb of ram but is there a slot for that??? Just wanna be sure before I tear it apart, thanks so much!

 

Do you think this setup will work for the revo, with the xbmc bd hack.
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=67420
esata casing
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/198213
liteon bd player
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Liteon-IHOS...ftware/dp/B002BAT1GQ/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
and an esata->esata cable
http://www.amazon.co.uk/1m-eSATA-to...1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1269689983&sr=1-1
£70 ish
any one had luck with any bd setup like this.

I will probably get this in a paydays worth of time and feedback, much cheaper than the other options.

 

While Acer Revo is an ok choice, it is facing increasing competition by other nettops and mini PCs: http://mymediaexperience.com/next-generation-of-mini-desktop-computers/

However, what I really like about Revo is that it produces extremely good price per performance ratio. Unfortunately, I am still missing the IR receiver which I would really need as a built in feature.