The Revo R3600 features an Intel Atom N230 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM (I’ve upgraded to 2) and a 160GB SATA drive with the latest NVidia ION chipset. It’s perfect as a discrete media centre box.

Gizmodo did a review here: http://i.gizmodo.com/5204432/acer-revo-and-nvidia-ion-hands-on-flawless-blu+ray-playback-changes-cheap-computers-forever

I’ve been itching to try XBMC for a long time and this was the perfect machine to try it on. I decided to use the Ubuntu 9.04 mini installation rather than go for XBMC’s own installer. Continue reading →