Acer Revo (was Re:NCIX grand opening sale)

[Ijaaz A. Ullah]

It should be fine, all you really want is decent io.  Just don't expect to
do any commercial flagging or transcoding.
> Hi Hugh,
>
> Question:
> If Acer Revo R1600 can be MythTV frontend, then, by definition, can
> it also be used as MythTV backend? From what I read, backend
> doesn't have to encode MPEG-2, since ATSC is already MPEG-2 encoded.
> It just have to save the TV stream coming from TV tuner to disk.
>
> --
> William
>
> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 01:55:08PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
>> I did buy an Acer Revo R1600 from NCIX on the last day before HST
>> ($200). That one (our second) we use mounted on the back of a 19" LCD
>> monitor (it comes with a cradle for attaching to the VESA mountpoints;
>> some monitors allow this but others use that to attach their stand).
>>
>> We use another Acer Revo r1600 as a MythTV front-end. We actually use
XMBC
>> because it can talk to my two backends that are running different revs
>> of Myth. The r1600 might be a better choice than the r3610:
>>
>> + significantly cheaper normally
>>
>> - 1G of RAM is a bit light these days, but OK. I added 1G since I had
>> a cheap stick laying about
>>
>> + comes without MS Windows
>>
>> + comes with FreeDOS!
>>
>> - comes without Linux, even though it is advertised as "Linux boot"
>>
>> + no trouble running Ubuntu. Except for the wireless which needs a
>> tiny obscure kludge.
>>
>> - smaller disk (who cares; if you need lots of space for videos, use
eSata
>> to add bulk storage)
>>
>> - slightly crippled ION LE processor. No affect on Linux, as far as I
>> know. In MS Windows, I understand that there is a hack to avoid the
>> crippling of Direct X 10.
>>
>> + might run cooler since the r1600 has a single core Atom rather than
>> two. I intend to measure that.
>>
>> - some tasks might run more slowly due to the single core Atom, but
>> probably not front-end tasks. If you care about CPU performance,
>> Atom isn't great anyway.
>
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