Acer Revo Net-top Atom 230 160GB HD HDMI $169+Tax after Paypal and Bing

This deal should be better than the Fry's deal ($177) posted a few days ago... plus Fry's is all sold out on this model.

Best Buy is selling the Acer - AspireRevo Nettop with Intel® Atom™ Processor online for $199.99.
With Bing and Best Buy running a promotion for paying with paypal ($20 off anything $100+), you can get this for $169.99 + tax.

1) Go to Bing.com. Search for "LG Electronics", you should see a Best Buy CashBack link giving you 5% CashBack
2) Go through that link, once you are in the Best Buy site, search for model or SKU number (Model: AR1600-U910H | SKU: 9535434) or description AspireRevo
3) Add to cart, go to check out. Must pay through Paypal to get $20 off.
4) Choose in-store pickup, as shipping WILL kill the deal.

I plan to use this as a cheapo Media PC. With HDMI out, I can do basic surfing and video watching on my HDTV.

Specification:
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Warranty Terms - Parts
1 year limited
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Warranty Terms - Labor
1 year limited
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Product Height
7.1"
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Product Width
1.2"
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Product Weight
9 lbs.
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Product Depth
7.1"
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Processor Brand
Intel®
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Processor
Intel® Atom™
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Processor Speed
1.6GHz
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System Bus
533MHz
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Cache Memory
512KB on die Level 2
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System Memory (RAM)
1GB
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Type of Memory (RAM)
DDR2
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Hard Drive Type
SATA (5400 rpm)
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Hard Drive Size
160GB
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Graphics
NVIDIA Ion LE
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Audio
Integrated
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Network Card
Built-in 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet (RJ-45 connector)
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Wireless Networking
None
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Direct-Disc Labeling
No
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Digital Media Reader or Slots
Yes, digital media card reader
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Available Expansion Slots
1 mini PCI Express
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USB 2.0 Ports
6 (2 front, 4 rear)
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Keyboard Description
USB
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Other Control Devices (mouse, etc.)
USB mouse
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Operating System Platform
Windows
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Operating System
Windows XP Home SP3
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Software Included
Adobe Reader; CyberLink PowerDVD 8; Microsoft Works and more
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ENERGY STAR Qualified
Yes
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HDMI Output
Yes
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Blu-ray Player
No

Link to product can be found here. Remember to go through Bing to max out your discounts.

Just did this yesterday and it worked like a charm. However, it took me 4+ hours to remove all the friggin' bloatware on this thing. Installed XBMC & MPC-HC and I am now enjoying an awesome HD player.

Is it choppy at all? I'd have to think that something that low powered might have trouble, but maybe the nVidia graphics are actually capable?

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My 2 biggest concerns are the ability to watch Hulu and Netflix on these Atom powered devices, but the reviews rarely talk about that. Can these Atom chips handle Hulu/Netflix scaled to 1080p?

eugovector said: My 2 biggest concerns are the ability to watch Hulu and Netflix on these Atom powered devices, but the reviews rarely talk about that. Can these Atom chips handle Hulu/Netflix scaled to 1080p?

I have a Zotac motherboard with a N330 as an HTPC. I haven't tried playing Hulu @ 1080p (only 420p) but I've noticed it is a little choppy. I have 4GB in the system so I don't think that is the problem but I also haven't optimized everything yet (installed Win7 on the bugger). The ION chip works great for divx but not sure if I have it set to help with Hulu.

Hope that helps...

eugovector said: My 2 biggest concerns are the ability to watch Hulu and Netflix on these Atom powered devices, but the reviews rarely talk about that. Can these Atom chips handle Hulu/Netflix scaled to 1080p?

engadget review

One of the online reviews said for this price you should get the xbox 360 rather than the revo. How does this compare to the xbox? The arcade 360 is $199 delivered now but you need to pop in a hard drive to really use it. I know you can go Netflix with the 360, but you have to pay MS for an online membership to do it. Can the 360 do hula, youtube, general browsing?

Just curious..

Dennis

medin said: I think the new Dell zino HD is a better buy at 220 if you want to use it as an HTPC. It comes with a DVD/RW drive, is small, and has a 780G chipset which is comparable to the ION, but the AMD desktop CPU is WAY faster than the single core atom, and it makes a difference for hulu and flash etc...

I'm planning on getting a Zino HD too when they come to the retail stores in a couple months. Dell's $39 shipping to me is bit pricey.

Thanks OP, it's a great deal for the Revo 1600. I might get one of those too.

It doesn't compare with the xbox 360 arcade. I purchased one with the WalMart promo last week making the final cost $100. You have to buy a hard drive for it and set up windows media player 11 or windows media center in order to watch videos. Lastly, I like to watch HD content that is available in MKV format which the xbox does not natively support! With that said, I plan on using the xbox to play downloadable demos only and pick up those hot titles that will some day end up in the $5 bin at GameStop! As for the hard drive, I plan on buying one when it goes on sale via fatwallet email alerts! I'm confident you can install XBMC on this acer via the lifehacker article (see rest of this thread) and play the MKV files though which I just might do.

Dwynne said: One of the online reviews said for this price you should get the xbox 360 rather than the revo. How does this compare to the xbox? The arcade 360 is $199 delivered now but you need to pop in a hard drive to really use it. I know you can go Netflix with the 360, but you have to pay MS for an online membership to do it. Can the 360 do hula, youtube, general browsing?

Just curious..

Dennis

Is this really worth getting?

I don't see this anymore, gone?

I can't bring up Best Buy as a CashBack retailer. This is a good deal on a video-streaming box that you can mount on the back of your TV.

Can anyone say if it is possible to hook this up to an old standard definition TV? I'd love to use this as a cheap file-server/htpc but my TV only has composite video and, currently, I'm not planning to upgrade the TV.