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It's a great pc, especially as an office pc and htpc. I did multiple E-350 builds last year (8) for a Medical Clinic and (4) for family. I have two Zacate powered HTPC's in my home and they are great, very low cost, low power draw, Surfing the web, watching movies, youtube, feels the same as other quad core amd builds and dual core sandy b builds. Xbmc is great in these lil setups, it just flies in the new Confluence Skin in Eden, the only draw back at the moment is that it can't handle Netflix HD, but let's be honest, Netflix HD...meh! really not even HD. I use Hulu, and Epix HD and all the other XBMC video add ons.
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Thank you again! This little box is starting to look like a winner! I think i'm going to order it from Amazon and try it out!
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NICE SCREEN ^^^^^^^^^^ Cool man.... thanx for that.
Does anyone know if the power brick that comes with the RL70 is 100-240V? Must be ..... everything this days like that is.
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If i thought this thing could do Netflix HD I would be on it like tick on a hound dog.
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2012-05-25, 06:35
(This post was last modified: 2012-05-25, 06:38 by Beer40oz.)
Netflix = PS3.....
I guess a lot of people use netflix on there HTPC's......
I don't care for it.....
But it would of been nice...
Wow that E-450 it's pretty cool....
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I wonder also if the RL70 remote that comes with it is a MCE...
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The reason it can't do Netflix HD is due to Microsoft Silverlight, it doesn't use any hardware acceleration like flash and HTML5, So you need a beefy cpu to compensate. There was an update to it but still not working the way it should be....after much complaining from all corners of the Earth, Statements were released that Netflix might change to HTML5 instead of Silverlight, now let's see if they really care about there customers....HTML5=Netflix HD for Zacate. It can game too Beerz, we play mostly Halo Custom Edition here at the house.
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Zacate 2.0 should be released any month now. ( E2-1800) cpu 1.70ghz, gpu HD 7xxx series, native usb 3.0....18 watts TDP compared to Trinity 35 watts. I'll be using these boards as soon as they come out, I'm more excited about this than Trinity. After Trinity's release a couple months later the new FX chips will be released with built in HD 7xxxx graphics in 8,6,and 4 core flavors. I just don't see the reason for Trinity.
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Yeah APU's is all you need for what we use "our" PC's for...your A6 is awesome! About the warranty, I'm not sure...maybe contacting Acer about upgrades. There site says it has a Limited One Year Warranty, so you might want to read up on that before anything else. Honestly Beerz, 2gb is enough for HTPC use or TorrentBox, I would just try it out like that first. Crucial makes great Ram.
no not porn!
