Acer AspireRevo, a tiny PC powered by Nvidia Ion

In the excitement of putting the website backend fires out yesterday, we missed a raft of new product announcements from Acer, including the "AspireRevo". It's not just a ridiculous name, but instead a tiny desktop PC that is the first to use Nvidia's Intel-irking Ion platform, which weds an Intel Atom CPU with a custom Nvidia graphics chip.

That means the AspireRevo can not only handle decoding 1080p video and 7.1 audio, but will actually be able to run 3D games at a playable (if modest) speed. All that in a box that will probably cost around $300—once other manufacturers start using Ion, driving prices down.

Hopefully it won't be long before we start seeing the first netbooks with Ion inside, as well.

[#1 posted by kawayama, April 9, 2009 3:43 PM]

but will it be quiet?

it irritates me that even the mac mini is not entirely quiet. is there a really quiet media center box that can run XBMC for me? it doesn't need to have a hard drive, i have a NAS to store my media files on.

[#2 posted by Anonymous, April 11, 2009 12:07 PM]

Psion are going to hate these guys what with the Aspire One netboook, and now the Revo:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Revo