• Acer Aspire Revo R3600: Mini PC

    Acer Aspire Revo R3600: Mini PC

    Roydon Cerejo, Aug 05, 2009 1800 hrs IST

    Great performance in a small package

    GPU acceleration for HD videos, form factor, good bundle, WiFi, HDMI, low power consumption

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Zotac was the first ones to bring us Nvidia's ION platform, which finally saw the union of Nvidia's GPU and the low powered Atom processor. We had the chance of reviewing Zotac's flagship offering, which included a dual core Atom and an integrated power supply making it a lot easier for the user to put it together.


But let's say you don't want to bother with the technicalities, I mean buying the motherboard is easy but then you have to hunt for the right case, which is hard. Acer recently launched their latest ION based AspireRevo mini PC which shares similar features and is already pre-packaged in a very attractive casing.


This is the first iteration of Acer's venture into the ION territory, the R3600 is built around the Intel Atom N230 CPU running at 1.6GHz. Instead of 1GB RAM we have 2GB of DDR2 RAM since we have to deal with Vista. The GPU belongs to Nvidia, a 9300 with 16 stream processors and a default 256MB of shared memory. All of this is enclosed in a slim and stylish package, so let's check it out.






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(9) Comments
BHARAT
,GANGTOK, on Feb 19, 2010 01:27 PM
I want price of this product in India
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Vikram
,Mumbai, on Aug 06, 2009 02:47 PM
I guess you missed on the "Power Button" which is set in an angle. You were suppose to comment on why the is the design is kept that way. On the whole nice to get another crunched and packed system for people who are still wary using Netbooks..:P
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Karthik Kumar
,New Delhi, on Aug 06, 2009 12:33 PM
As a off-the-shelf HTPC,, this is Great.. But even as a general usage computer,, this is useless since portability is limited compared to Netbooks,, and nowhere near the specs of a Notebook.
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thirumal Kumara
,chennai, on Aug 06, 2009 11:28 AM
i Think for the price a Mac mini would be a better buy, Core 2 duo Nvidia 9300 DVD DL RW. Wireless, Bluetooth and importanly Native MAC OS X
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Neeraj
,Port Blair, on Aug 06, 2009 10:16 AM
Does this has an optical drive? I think it doesn't, like the netbooks.
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raghu
,Blr, on Aug 06, 2009 08:25 AM
Where the specifications friend, you missed major part. Wht kind of reviewer techtree has got! wen you first to review. Its not first review but quaity tht matters most!
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saurav
,kol, on Aug 05, 2009 10:49 PM
can i run photoshop cs2 & coreldraw 12 or 13 in this pc
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Nandu
,Mumbai, on Aug 05, 2009 11:20 PM
nope. u cant. It would be sluggish and u cant do anything else when its running
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Anonymous
,def, on Aug 06, 2009 12:15 AM
yes u can. I am running CS4 on a Lenovo s10. So on an ION its gonna be a piece of cake.
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