ACER ASPIRE REVO AR1600-U910H REVIEW
- Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 3:19
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The Acer Aspire Revo is expected to be used as a normal PC and is designed in a similar fashion. The pricing of this netbook is slightly lower than the ordinary PC that can be used for household use but, with a few more dollars, the buyer can afford a better laptop with a X box 360 that can perform similar digital-media functions and in addition offers a powerful gaming environment and an amazing optical drive.
Since the price of this laptop is low, it does not provide a wireless networking adapter, where all other laptops do. So, there is a need to connect a 2.0 USB port or hardwire the netbook to your PC. Applications such as digital-media-editing programs and games can quickly drain the Revo’s 160GB hard drive and its 1.6GHz Intel N230 CPU. The netbook provides a 320GB device of larger specs for $329.
The size (small) of this netbook is an advantage, but the wiring involved with the keyboard and mouse is a total mess. The Acer Revo model can be mounted anywhere with ease and comfort. The features of Acer Revo are: 1GB DDR2 SDRAM of memory, 128MB (shared) Nvidia Ion LE integrated graphics chip, Gigabit Ethernet as its networking tool and Windows XP Home SP3 as the operating system.
The Aspire AR 1600 is too slow while loading huge, lengthy applications, Web pages and really bad at multi-tasking. The Nvidia’s Ion graphics chip offers the laptop better video capability. YouTube and Netflix can be accessed comfortably with zero trouble and considerably good quality. Some online shooter games cannot be played with ease. The resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels provides excellent performance at lower image quality settings for the game, but at higher image settings, the performance is pathetic.
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Yes. I would be more concerned with the graphics cards in those though, you might not be able to run sims 3 anyway because the graphics card is not good enough. You might be able to set the graphics down low enough though.
After reading this, I’m not entirely sure the reviewer ever actually used the product. It’s constantly referred to as a netbook and a laptop, when it is neither. And I’d hardly call the 2 cables involved in hooking up a keyboard and mouse “a mess”, we’ve been plugging in mice and keyboards since the first computers.
I bought one as a media player for my bedroom. I’ve installed Windows 7 and connect via wireless N USB adapter to a media server. I added 1 GB of SODIMM RAM (max is 2 – 2GB SODIMMs) . I adjusted to BIOS to give the video 512M of memory rather than the default 256M. I connect to my TV via HDMI port and use the TV speakers. (I could have added powered speakers for better sound) The movies play flawlessly over the wireless. I will add a wireless MCE controller later and don’t anticipate any problems with that. A further potential performance boost could be the addition of a 4GB USB memory stick to enable Windows ReadyBoost.
I wanted a quiet, small media player for my bedroom. It is very price competitive with other media player devices. If you use the device as an MCE media player to watch movies in bed and not a game machine, this is an awesome fit for this application.