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FIN-User, 14 months ago. DEU-User, 8 months ago. CHE-User, 8 months ago. While both the Mac Mini and HP Mini are squat, puck-like systems that are designed to have a very low profile but a wider desktop footprint, the Revo is a tall rectangle with gently rounded edges and a glossy translucent white finish. Even though it's bigger than the two Minis, it's still shorter than an iPhone 6 Plus, standing 6.
The front face is featureless, aside from an Acer logo, and almost all the connectivity happens on the rear panel, including a tiny, hard to reach power button. White status lights are on the top surface, as is an SD card slot. Bundled with the Revo are a basic white keyboard and mouse, both connected to the same USB receiver. The mouse is cheap-feeling plastic, but at least has a curved ergonomic design, although there are no extra buttons or media features.
The keyboard is small, good for living room lap use, and has deep keys that are clacky, but easy to hit. My main complaint about the keyboard is that its media control features, such as the volume control, are mapped to the function key row in such a way that you need to hold down the Fn key in order to use them.
That makes on the fly media playback control a two-handed job. Many media-friendly laptops and desktops have reversed this, making the volume and media transport controls the primary function of the Function key row. Also bundled with the Revo is an inordinate amount of software, some from Acer, some from variou corporate partners. Adware includes icons for Booking. Most are cloud-friendly file storage, which allow you to access files on the Revo from a phone or tablet that running the appropriate iOS or Android companion app.
One is a remote control app that's supposed to act as a phone-based touchpad and remote control for your PC. We downloaded the iOS version, and made sure the phone and Revo were on the same network and even connected via Bluetooth, but we could never get it to work. Having tried dozens of proprietary PC brand file sharing and media suites over the past decade, I can safely say that most are simply not worth the effort it takes to configure and learn them, because media management software will never be a priority for PC makers.
Better to stick to third-party photo and media apps that aren't tied to a particular brand of hardware. We had better luck with living-room-centric media apps from Microsoft's Windows app store, and loaded up our interface with the well-optimized apps for Netflix, Hulu, Comedy Central, Syfy and others.
Many of these require logins from your cable TV provider, but they're usually more responsive and easier to navigate than going to a television network's website in a Web browser. While you're in the Windows app store, however, beware of apps that traffic in pirated movie and TV show streams, which seem to be flooding some categories of the app store of late.
A living room PC, or any media-heavy machine, needs a generous selection of ports and connections. As a system for running Windows media software, from iTunes to Handbrake to Photoshop, the Revo performs right in line with other desktops that use low-voltage, dual-core fourth-gen Intel Core i5 CPUs.
The Mac Mini, despite a slightly slower on paper Core i5, was a bit faster in our multitasking test, while the the Revo took advantage of its faster CPU and hybrid hard drive augmenting its 1TB platter drive with a small amount of flash memory to run our Photoshop test faster.
Intel's clever Compute Stick PC, running a low-power Intel Atom, was a distant last place in each of these tests, but it still worked fine for basic Netflix and YouTube streaming at resolutions up to p. In hands-on testing, the dual-core CPU and integrated graphics struggled even with casual games, but playing 4K video files from a variety of sources was not a problem at all.
The Acer Revo looks great, performs well, and runs a wide variety of media and entertainment software. But, if you want something that can handle 4K video, store up to 1TB of media and other files, and enables easy web browsing from the living room couch, this is a great Windows alternative to the also-excellent Mac Mini from Apple.
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