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.
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.
Psion are going to hate these guys what with the Aspire One netboook, and now the Revo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Revo