No desk top computer?

[Billie Erin Walsh]

Mark Greenwood wrote:
> On Sunday 14 Feb 2010 11:41:55 Neil Winchurst wrote:
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>> Mark Greenwood wrote:
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>>> The OP might like to have a look at something like the Acer Aspire Revo. If you don't want gaming, and just do a bit of surfing and emailing it's a very tiny, low power PC with enough memory and grunt (and a good enough graphics card) to run KDE rather well. I use mine as a media centre and it does brilliantly.
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>>>> Dave
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>> Thanks, I will certainly explore that. The idea of using a fairly 
>> powerful laptop instead of a desktop computer was mainly the problem of 
>> lack of space in the den/bedroom. But also the ability to take the 
>> laptop downstairs sometimes. I guess that would not be so easy with a 
>> mini desktop. Anyway, I will google away later.
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> I'd better say (because you say 'powerful' laptop) that the Atom processor in the Revo is not 'powerful'. It' fine for general desktop use and web browsing etc, but for anything requiring a bit of processor 'grunt' you'd be better off with a decent laptop. I mention it because you said space was the prime requirement, and if you already have a monitor, keyboard, and mouse the Revo is by far the cheapest way to get a space-saving computer.
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> Mark
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>> Thanks
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>> Neil
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My better half just stole, figuratively, a great little mini desktop 
mini tower.  An Acer Aspire, AMD Quad Core, 3 or 4 hundred gig hard 
drive, four gig's of memory. Measure 10.5x4x14. Downside, it has no 
internal expansion possible. No card slots. Upside, it has loads of USB 
ports for external devices. It looks to me kind of like they took a high 
end laptop board and stuck it into a mini desktop case. I've been seeing 
a lot of this type box hitting the market since the Netbooks showed up 
on the scene.

Slightly bigger than a Revo but it has the horsepower under the hood.

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