I’ve written before about the home theater PC (HTPC) I setup a few months ago. I spent a ton of time getting it setup initially, running software called XBMC (www.xbmc.org). It was great for the initial time, but it only ran movies I streamed from my server. That’s all fine and good, but it was limited in its application.
There’s a ton of great other software out there which can do a heck of a lot more, though.
Initially, the Acer Aspire Revo’s setup doesn’t have the best specs when it comes to computing power. It’s compounded by the fact that Acer installs so much bloatware that performance is bogged down even more. That’s what initially led me to install XBMC-Live.