Spec me a Nettop...

Guru · 23 Jan 2012 at 13:40

Hi all,

At work we have a system that monitors clients servers and shows details about them on a screen, this is a web based thing that we currently use a laptop to connect to and then the laptop plugs into the screen and outputs what we need to see.

We want to tidy this up and use something that will hide behind the screen and do the same job.

I'm after a very small net top that can perch on top of the mounting bracket that the screens are mounted to. We need 3 of these and they all need to be able to out put full HD resolution.

I think the height of these needs to be slightly less that 20cm if possible, the cheaper the better.

I am debating if we should use netbooks so that we can use the keyboard for occasional re-configuration, but this is not essential. What is essential is they must output full HD over VGA or HDMI.

Any suggestions would be really appreciated as they are looking to order today if possible.

Thanks,

G

Guru · 23 Jan 2012 at 14:40

Any thoughts on this:

I think I’ve settled on this Acer Aspire Revo R3700 Nettop one as being a good choice at £189.89:

Intel Atom Dual Core D525B 1.8GHz
2GB RAM
500GB HDD
No Optical Drive
NVIDIA ION 2
HDMI Port
Linux

This Zotac Zbox Nano AD10-B Plus Mini PC looks awesome and way smaller at 12.7x12.7x4.5cm (tempted to get one for home) but it’s £100 more at £279.98! Also it doesn’t have VGA, but does have HDMI.

AMD E350 1.6GHz
2GB RAM
320GB HDD
No Optical Drive
AMD Radeon HD 6310
Bluetooth
No Operating System

Not sure what resolutions they do though.

Guru · 23 Jan 2012 at 14:48

Dava said:
acer revo?
asus eebox>?

the revo is decent, i use it for xbmc!

Do you know if it will do 1920x1080 over VGA?

Thanks,

G

Guru · 23 Jan 2012 at 15:50

beejjacobs said:
Don't know if you've seen these:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=43&catid=2224&sortby=priceAsc
?

Don't know much about them, but might be worth a look. One of thems on special today (5 left)

I did see them, but they haven't listed the dimensions (that I could see) and they looked quite wide so I dismissed them.

I've ordered one of the Revo's to test and we will get two more if it's suitable.

Guru · 28 Jan 2012 at 10:15

We went with the revo r3700 in the end. It is perfect for what we want.

I have taken one home for the weekend to see if it would be any good as an htpc but it really stutters with streaming HD stuff. Completely unwatchable, real shame cause it fits like a glove where I wanted to put it

This is using windows 7 64 with vlc playing the movies from a share on my micro server. My work laptop does the same job flawlessly.