Jimmie Topic:

New Desktop

Posted by Jim in General on 05 3rd, 2010 | no responses


Last weekend, I purchased the Atom Aspire Revo R1600 from Best Buy for $199, since I was on a very tight budget and wanted something with HDMI, eSATA, and plenty of USBs. So I picked this Nettop. Also, I bought the HP 2009m 20inch glossy anti-glare monitor. I have been using for a week so far, the machine is awesome for the price and what kind of processor it has, it runs an Intel Atom N230 (64 bit) 1.6Ghz Atom, it originally came with 1gb of ram, but decided to upgrade to 3gb of ram, soon to be 4gb, also it has a spot for Internal laptop wireless, since this machine uses all laptop components, such as laptop memory, 2.5inch SATA II hard drive. So far I have ran Windows XP Home Edition SP3, which came with the machine, also I installed Ubuntu 10.04 RC2 beta when I first bought the machine and upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. When I bought it, it came with an somewhat off an Apple style keyboard that has no number pad on the side of it, and it has the chicklet style keys. Surprisingly when I bought, not realizing it was equipped with the new Nvidia ION integrated GPU. So I installed an older game, GTA San Andreas to test out the integrated GPU. So first thing was to max out the graphics, well the only issue was that San Andreas does not support any resolution higher then 1280×800, so I set it to that, and played the game. The machine handled the game on this nice 20inch display at a smooth 35fps. I also decided to swap out the old school VGA to an HDMI to DVI adapter to get the true digital signal I have always wanted.

I will upload pictures later of what it looks like.

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