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| Acer Aspire Revo R3610 Desktop PC (Intel Atom 330, 1.6 GHz, RAM4096MB, HD500GB, LAN WLAN, Windows 7 Home Premium) |
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Acer Aspire Revo R3610 Desktop PC (Intel Atom 330, 1.6 GHz, RAM4096MB, HD500GB, LAN WLAN, Windows 7 Home Premium)
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List Price: £343.85
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| Product Details |
ISBN/ASIN: B002TI844K
Release Date: 2009-11-13
Sales Rank: 23232
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Media: Electronics
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Product Group: CE
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| Product Description |
| Acer Aspire Revo R3610 Desktop PC Atom (330) 1.6GHz 4096MB 500GB LAN WLAN Windows 7 Home Premium (Integrated Graphics) + Wired Keyboard and Mouse |
| Customer Reviews: Average Rating: 5.0/5 | | More of the same but bigger and a little faster: Rating: 5/5 |
We are slowly starting to see the Revo 3610 product range open up. I reviewed the original 3610 250GB HDD with 2GB RAM model here at Amazon and gave it four stars. It is brilliant and only got marked down because of the vast amount of bloatware and software it came with.
This is the same, it has a 500GB disk drive split over two partitions. It has 4GB RAM. What does that mean? For an extra seventy pound (time of writing) over the 2GB model you get more disk space and in some situations you will see better performance as Windows takes advantage of the extra RAM. Otherwise it is identical. They keyboard and mouse it comes with is pretty useless, it's cool looking but only really practical if you have it in the living room or kitchen as a browsing machine and then I would just buy one of the combi keyboard touchpad units so I don't have to juggle a separate mouse and keyboard.
The monitor mount kit works a treat if your monitor stand does not use the VESA mount on the monitor. I use the monitor kit to mount the unit to the wall behind the monitor, same net effect. You can get lightweight wall mount kits for about ten quid. This unit weighs about the same as a light laptop.
As for use, the Revo 3610 is stunning. It is Atom powered which you will find in a lot of netbooks or like this unit nettops. The advantage here is the ION graphics. It is incredible and will allow full 1080 HD to be pumped out to a monitor with no jitter or performance worries. You won't get that with your current Intel graphics supplied with other Atoms. What does that mean in real terms? The Atom/ION combination means this will work as a great media centre for movies streamed from the disk or over the network, or unless you are working on more than two or three things at the same time this is going to be perfectly fine for almost everything you use a PC for.
It is not a games machine but plays some older games very well, Half Life 2 for instance is a dream at 1280 x 1024. I now also have several units at work (these bigger models) for people that are using a PC for email, internet and general Microsoft Applications. Unless you're doing a lot of heavy duty number crunching these are great.
What else, no CD/DVD but that is not an issue for me. LiteON do some great read USB only models for about 25 pound and the full DVD/CD write experience for about 45. With the very reasonably priced Acer 23" monitor here at 130 quid and a descent keyboard mouse your really do have an excellent system for peanuts. Cheap enough that you could have a couple around the house. More than capable of handling homework duties and then for watching movies when you have time to yourself. And like I say, you might even use it to play a few older games. | |
