Revo 3700 as a Media PC

[K@rl]

I've seen the Revo 3700's advertised at a very cheap price and have been looking for a Media PC for a while at this kind of price.

Has anybody had any experience with them?

Want something to be "always on", stream movies and also play youtube vids for my little one.

I also want it to run VM ware server with 2003 so I dont have to run my main PC all the time. Its only a backup Mail and nameserver so its not really used.

Any thoughts? Am I asking too much from a little box like this?

 

[K@rl]

Its from a popular "e"lectronic buy-ing website. Isnt a patch on OC though.

I like to have control of at least one server for my domain services, so I have it at home. No need in having specific server hardware just for that. At present it only runs 256MB of ram and is rarely over 5% cpu on my current PC.

It comes with 2 gig, I would have thought that would be enough for WIN7 and VM.

Might just buy it anyway and see how it fairs.

 

[K@rl]

im yet to dive in on this but I see they have the ION2 chipset, from what I have read that should make quite a nice MPC?

 

[K@rl]

Ended up getting an emachines er1401 nettop from a competitor for only £130.

Its the AMD Athlon Dual Core K325, 2GB DDR3 ram / 250GB HD & Nvidia GF9200. Its running W7 Ult @ 720, XBMC and VMware server 2 with a W2K3 server.

All running sweet as a nut and using between 20-30 watts. That's a massive energy saving over my design rig. (tested with a plugin power adapter thingy with a watts readout).

Just need to order a Windows Media Center Remote & IR sensor and I'm done.

 

[K@rl]

Why no change, simple when you understand how XBMC works.
It constantly draws 60fps on the screen so the load @ idle is no differnt than playing a movie.

I did wonder about that - seemed strange to me.

Look forward to it being changed - could save me quite a bit more in electricities.

Whilst we are on the subject, any news of a Lovefilm plugin on the horizon? That would make it the perfect box.