Few days ago I got my Acer Aspire Revo from T-Online Shop for 299 Euro (shipping included).

Today I had time to roll some HD Video samples on it.

After few playback problems (most likelly because of the improper DirectShow splitter), I got a finally smooth playback in Media Player Classic.

To emphasize how nice the system behaves when playing back a Full-HD sample, I did some screenshots.

First a screenshot of the System Load for a Full HD 1080p mkv sample (sorry, german captions):

The CPU load fluctuates between 10% and 15% with a spike of ~50% (on full-screen start-up) and at the end a spike of ~60% (when returning from full-screen mode).

Here are some info about the 1080p sample:

• AVC High@L4.1 ID V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
• Bitrate: 7 494 Kbps
• Nominal bitrate : 7 816 Kbps
• 1 920 x 1 080

Here are some details for 720p, measured with perfmon.

The spikes here are occuring because I’ve seeked the video while playing.

Here are some info about the 720p sample:

• AVC High@L3.1
• Codec ID  V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
• Bitrate: 3 717 Kbps
• Nominal bitrate: 3 891 Kbps
• 1 280 x 720

Now! Let’s see what you get for 299 Euro?

• Acer Aspire Revo
  • Motherboard – NVIDIA ION
  • Northbridge – NVIDIA ION
  • Southbridge – NVIDIA ION
    my comment : Hehe… Where Art Thou Intel?!
• GPU
  • NVIDIA GeForce 9400
• Processor
  • Intel Atom 230
  • Speed – 1.6 GHz
  • L2 Cache per core – 512KB, Single Core
• Memory
  • Size / Config - 2 x 1024 (2GB)
  • Speed (MHz) – 800 MHz
  • Command Rate 1T/2T – 2T
• Drivers
  • GPU – NVIDIA GeForce v185.38
  • Chipset – NVIDIA nForce v20.10
• Hard Drive
  • Seagate Momentus 5400.5
  • Speed / Size – 5400 RPM / 160GB
• OS
  • Windows Vista Premium x32 with SP1

• Ultra-slim design
  
• Windows Vista Home Premium experience (my comment: here I would say that this experience is not always nice )
• 10x Faster Graphics than competitive graphics solutions
• DirectX 10 graphics with advanced digital display connectivity
• HDMI and eSATA ports
• Premium 1080p HD video with true-fidelity 7.1 channel audio
• Full support for 24-bit 8-channel LPCM uncompressed audio through HDMI
• Great mainstream gaming experience on popular games like Spore, LEGO Batman, and Wall-E
• Accelerated video enhancement and transcoding using NVIDIA CUDA technology
• CUDA technology unlocks the processing power of the GPU to accelerate video transcoding and run the most compute-intensive applications 

More about this nice piece of Hardware at HotHardware.com

My personal conclusion: Impressed!