Re: RUVO MiniCap 7 - Tiny Fan-less 1080P HDMI XBMC PC

[Jon Wilkins <jonpdwilkins@xxxxxxxxx>]

>
> That's about sixty quid more than I paid for my dual core Acer Aspire
Revo,
> OK so the Revo's only got 1GB RAM and a 160GB drive but it does come
with
> wireless.
>
>
>
Maybe so, but I think it was the Aspire Revo I was looking at a few months
ago with a potential customer and although it's got wireless, it was a
somewhat limited implementation of 802.11.  Either limited to 2.4Ghz (not
5Ghz) or limited to b/g (not n) or limited to a single stream or one of the
other oh-too-common limitations.  Why vendors *still* do this puzzles me
when decent dual band n cards are now knocked out at such a similarly low
price point.  And especially when the vendors are trying to push the
devices
for wirelessly distributed video.  They may sell OK into the domestic
market
but make them pretty rubbish to someone wanting to resell 100's to a single
site....

If the Ruvo puppy doesn't have wireless then I guess it's possible to
source
a reasonable-ish n based USB stick - and perhaps glue it in place or
something.  Maybe they do a wireless-included variant.


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