I got mine from eBay. I paid ~£120 for an Acer Revo 3610 with 2G RAM and a 320G HDD + Windows 7 license and new Logitech wireless keyboard/touchpad. Obviously a risk buying private but check the seller feedback carefully.
They seem to go for between £75 and £120 depending on what is bundled with it. For a bargain try and track one which ends during the working day rather than a Sunday afternoon. On 12 May 2014 18:31, Ally Biggs <bluechr...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > Hey Imran where is a good place to pick one up? For a good price > > Sent from my Windows Phone > ________________________________ > From: Imran Chaudhry > Sent: 12/05/2014 06:14 PM > > To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List > Subject: Re: [Hampshire] What XBMC Hardware? > > Hi Stuart, > > I think Michael Pavling has the Revo 3600 which does not have the > optical out - there is an config change needed to get menu sounds I > think. > > I ended up getting a Revo 3610 - which sounds like what you have. This > does have optical out. It was really easy to set-up with OpenElec. > Everything "just worked" - even my RC6 Microsoft Media Center remote > all works. Wireless Logitech keyboard just works. Standby/resume just > works. > > The hardest bit was replacing the HDD, Acer really don't want you to > open these things. I had to pry it open with a screwdriver and the > help of some YouTube videos. It's quick even with a spinning rust HDD > so I don't think an SSD will gain me much. > > Anyway, it's early days with it but just wanted to report that all is > well so far. The Acer Revo 36x0 seems like an ideal, HD-capable and > relatively cheap XBMC appliance like the old XBox was. > > By the way, did you choose NFS because it gives better streaming > performance than Samba? > > > On 28 April 2014 08:14, Stuart Sears <stu...@sjsears.com> wrote: >> On 27/04/14 10:25, Imran Chaudhry wrote: >>> Hi Michael, >>> >>> Replies inline: >> [snip] >>>> At home I've got a couple of XBMC machines set up, both Atom boards. >>>> One's >>>> an Acer Aspire Revo - it's okay, but was a little fiddly to get all the >>>> audio configured. The other was a Zotac Zbox (can't remember exactly >>>> which >>>> model though) and it was a breeze to set up (I went with XBMCbuntu >>>> rather >>>> than OpenElec), and it runs the TV in the living room. Pretty much on >>>> all >>>> the time; we never watch broadcast telly. >>> >>> Good to hear another point that the Acer Revo works fine. I did the >>> research so I know about the sound fiddles but it has been solved. >>> I've bookmarked some blogs/forum posts where they list the config file >>> changes needed. >> >> FWIW I have one of these as my XBMC machine, plugged in over HDMI and >> also using the optical out to my AV amplifier. >> >> Audio out on either/both of these "just work" using the newest openelec >> build or generic xbmc on top of another distro (although I've stuck with >> openelec now, it's a single-purpose box) >> >> what are these supposed audio problems? I've never had any. >> >> [snip] >>>> At home I do run a separate file-server for the media (the XBMC boxes >>>> has >>>> little SSDs to keep them quiet), and a shared SQL server for the app >>>> database, >> >> ditto, MySQL and NFS on an HP microserver for me, streamed over 300M >> powerline adapters. Getting the external DB up and running in openelec >> requires a bit of cmdline-fu but that's not particularly difficult and >> there are entries on the XBMC wiki on how to achieve it. >> >> Works >> >> Stuart >> >> >> -- >> Stuart Sears RHCA etc. >> "It's today!" said Piglet. >> "My favourite day," said Pooh. >> >> -- >> Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk >> Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire >> LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk >> -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -- > Key fingerprint = EF78 310C C517 9564 9ECA 82F6 68FA E621 17E1 5D16 > http://about.me/imranchaudhry > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- -- Key fingerprint = EF78 310C C517 9564 9ECA 82F6 68FA E621 17E1 5D16 http://about.me/imranchaudhry -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
