On 25/02/2011 15:59, Keith G wrote:

"Rob" wrote in message
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On 23/02/2011 22:03, Keith G wrote:


And here's a shot of the Acer Revo computer's screensaver:

http://www.moirac.adsl24.co.uk/shown...Screenshot.JPG

(Note the turntable below centre for scale - 6' wide image in my room!)


Cracking little machines - perfect for WMP, iPlayer, You Tube &c. but I
believe the spec of the latest ones whilst still ample is down on the
two I
have got and there's a new 'multimedia' model out (Acer Revo 100)
which I
know nothing about other than the spec is up but it is twice the price.
Google cures all ills...

:-)


Aye, makes my Mac Mini look overpriced if you don't need much more
than a media server.

I suspect I know the answer to this, but what do you do for a remote?


I don't use one myself other than when I'm using the Blu-ray player: I
prefer the mouse and clicking along the progress bar in WMP for video
recordings and the BBC and ITV online players. Tbh, I never use the
'cinema' Revo for playing music:

http://www.moirac.adsl24.co.uk/showntell/RevoPJshot.JPG


But they are easy enough online to find if you Google 'remote control
for pc':

Here's a good page where you will see most of them are USB:

http://www.pcremotecontrol.com/solutions/solutions.htm

Like this one which looks quite dinky:

http://www.snapstream.com/products/fireflymini/



Yes, I thought you'd forsake. I've actually got one of those add on ones
for a project PC I was building, but could never get it to work
reliably. The Mac one is typically sparse:

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC...co=MTY3ODQ5OTY

And I use an iPhone or iPad for most things using a remote app:

http://www.apple.com/itunes/remote/

All go :-)

Rob