14 DAY TRIAL // Even though most desktops stick to a tower-like or box-shaped chassis, Acer decided to make it easy to mistake its newest one for a multimedia player by giving the Aspire Revo 100 a very compact enclosure.
Basically, this new system that Acer has put together and announced in its recent press release is one that “will easily bring together all your computing device content, whether home based or mobile, as well as Internet for the ultimate home entertainment experience.”
One of the main points of interest, one might say, is how it is built around the AMD Athlon II Neo K325 central processing unit.
This CPU is a dual-core chip with a clock frequency of 1.3 GHz, for those that either don't know or can't remember.
Said CPU is backed up by the fairly solid amount of 2 GB of RAM and paired with none other than NVIDIA's next-generation ION graphics processing unit.
It is this component that confers 1,080p playback upon the system and is guaranteed to play high-quality media flawlessly off the 500 GB hard disk drive.
Of course, in order to ensure that playback can be done from any sort of disk, Acer made sure to add a slim Blu-ray drive as well.
Furthermore, there is the full range of connectivity and I/O options, such as a multi-card reader, LAN and WiFi.
Of course, since the purpose of this product is multimedia entertainment, Acer made sure to throw in a special accessory.
Said special accessory is a wireless touchpad, known as RevoPad, which can be a multi-gesture touchpad or just a touch keyboard, for remote use of the home entertainment system.
Shipments of the Acer Revo multimedia PC will start on December 10, for £499.99. It will be loaded with the Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium operating system.