Blogeee has discovered a disassembly manual for the Aspire Revo R3600 which walks you through the complete disassembly process. There’s also screens of the BIOS and perhaps other stuff that might be useful for a modder.

Download the Acer Aspire Revo R3600 disassembly manual (713 KB)

The Acer Aspire Revo R3600 is currently selling at Amazon UK for £199.

Acer Aspire Revo Nettop

The Acer Revo is one of the most highly anticipated Nettops, and we have a comprehensive review here.  The tested included an Atom 230 processor, 2GB of RAM, and a 250GB 2.5-inch HDD.

Setup
The out of box experience was excellent and the packaging was excellent.  The device has a small power brick, a helpful (if not incredibly firm) stand, and little else to worry about.

Performance
There are two main chips here: the CPU and the GPU.   Unfortunately, while we were very impressed with NVIDIA Ion’s performance (it’s basically the GeForce 9400m for cheap and low-power computers), the slow Atom 230 processor almost ruins it . The fact that Ion can run Vista is also a bit of a double-edged sword: accelerated interface elements like Aero Glass and Flip3D are great, and the windowing system is much snappier than traditional netbooks, but they come at the cost of an overall performance hit over running XP — hopefully Windows 7 will arrive soon.

Video Playback

Video playback is the real winner here, with accelerated 1080p video. Unfortunately, you have to know what you’re doing. For instance, a 1080p QuickTime movie plays nice and accelerated in PowerDVD, but horribly in actual QuickTime, since it’s not a GPU-accelerated application. Blu-ray movies also work great, but you have to wait through a sluggishness of the PowerDVD program.

Wrap-up
The Revo is a really odd mix, a device that can excel at “enthusiast” applications like video transcoding and gaming, but struggles with a basic web app or YouTube.  High-end users will know exactly how to put the Revo to good use, but for a couple more hundies they could get a lot more CPU power in perhaps a Dell Studio Hybrid or Mac mini. We’re sure the market will solve all this — there’s no denying that it’s a lot of bang for the buck — but we’d say nettop manufacturers should try pairing Ion with higher performance chips as soon as possible, and hopefully they can hit a bit broader of a target.