The Acer Aspire Revo nettop which has been on the market for the past year or so really looks more like a multimedia box that you would stick next to your TV than a full fledged computer. I mean sure, it can run Windows XP or Windows 7, but the killer features are the low price, small size, and NVIDIA…

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[/caption] Ever since Asus sent me an O!Play HD media player to review, I’ve been meaning to gather a few more of these tiny media boxes and do a proper roundup. But Gizmodo has beat me to it. The tech blog put together a not-quite comprehensive roundup of media streaming devices from Western Digital, Seagate, Popcorn Hour, Patrio, and Netgear….

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The Acer AspireRevo nettop has been available in the US for a few weeks now, but you’ve been stuck with a model that runs Windows XP, has a single core Atom 230 CPU, 1GB of RAM, and 160GB hard drive. That model also has NVIDIA ION LE graphics. Now Newegg is taking pre-orders for an updated model that sports a…

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The Acer AspireRevo was one of the first nettops to promise NVIDIA ION graphics, even if it took a while for the ION LE version to show up in the US. Now the little desktop is getting another spec bump in the US with Windows 7, a dual core processor, and NVIDIA ION. Here’s a run down of the specs…

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The Acer AspireRevo is a tiny desktop computer with the guts of a netbook. In other words, it’s a nettop with a 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, and a 160GB hard drive. It comes in several different configurations, but for the first time one of the more exciting models is available in the US. You can now pick…

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A lot of folks have been worried about the performance of the NVIDIA ION LE chipset. In a nutshell, NVIDIA ION is what you get when you bundle an Intel Atom processor with NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics. ION LE is what you get when you disable DirectX 10 support on the same chipset. But Blogeee reports that’s pretty much the…

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If you’ve been holding off on picking up an Acer Aspire Revo nettop until the dual core option was available, it looks like the wait is almost over. Acer is launching a version of this tiny desktop computer with a 1.6GHz Atom 330 dual core processor, 4GB of RAM, HDMI output, and NVIDIA ION graphics today at IFA in Berlin….

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Sure, the Acer Veriton N260G looks like a rebranded version of the Acer AspireRevo nettop. But it’s got a gray case instead of a black one, OK? The N260G also lacks the NVIDIA ION graphics that make the AspireRevo so attractive. But like the AspireRevoe, the Veriton N260G is a small, low power desktop PC that would probably look pretty…

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Over the past few years, computer maker Acer has acquired a number of smaller companies including Gateway and Packard Bell. But rather than killing off those brand names and combining those companies’ products and technology with its own, Acer has continued to pump out computers under the Gateway and Packard bell brand names. And that means the creative folks at…

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The Acer AspireRevo is the first computer shipping to use the NVIDIA Ion platform which pairs an Intel Atom CPU with an NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor. I mean, sure… it’s not shipping in the US yet. But it is available in Germany, where Johannes from NewGadgets.de got a chance to pick one up and post some unboxing photos. The…

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The Acer AspireRevo is the first computer to use the NVIDIA Ion platform, which bundles a low power Intel Atom CPU with an NVIDIA GeForce 9400M GPU. The result is a low power computer that can handle high quality graphics — sometimes. Engadget spent a few weeks reviewing a pre-release unit, with mixed results. In a nutshell, the NVIDIA GPU…

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The Acer AspireRevo won’t be available to the public for a few more weeks. But the folks at Engadget got their hands on a pre-production version of the first computer to use NVIDIA’s Ion platform, which bundles a low power Intel Atom CPU with an NVIDIA GPU for improved video and graphics performance. The model Engadget is testing is still a…

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