Acer Aspire Revo R3610 Review : Best Nettop Yet?

It is difficult not to be impressed by the Acer Aspire Revo Nettop, a diminutive yet powerful computer that could potentially have the same impact on computing as the first Asus EEE PC.

The R3610 that we are reviewing today is the successor to the R3600 and incorporates some rather significant upgrades which we will explore later.

The review unit is much lighter than the Viewsonic VOT-550 that we reviewed a few weeks ago. The chassis is very different and feels more plasticky.

As for most Acer products, there are loads of stickers and logos printed everywhere on the Revo which we'd rather not have.

Like Marmite, you will either love or hate the device's form factor, think of it as a hexagon with two opposite sides pinched, that's roughly how the R3610 looks like and the fact that the big power button is located on one edge make you wonder what were the Acer designers thinking of when they came up with the Aspire Revo.

Anyhow, if like me, you prefer to have rectangular or square chassis, you will be slightly disappointed even if the stand provided is quite sturdy; the solution might be to hide the Revo R3610 behind your 50-inch television with the bundled VESA mount kit (or on your office computer).

These details aside, the Revo R3610 is pure bliss. It comes with a dual Core Intel Atom 330, running at 1.6Ghz with 1MB L2 Cache and is the old version rather than the new Pineview one.