Acer announces REVO small - form factor PC's!

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Acer last week announced the latest in its family of Revo small-form-factor PCs at the IFA 2015 trade show in Berlin. The Revo Build M1-601 consists of a cuboid base unit with a footprint measuring about 5 inches square and a set of easily attachable modules.
There are two versions -- one with an Intel Pentium processor and the other with an Intel Celeron CPU. Both have integrated Intel HD graphics and up to 8 GB of DDR4 RAM.
Acer plans to launch the Revo Build in Europe in October and in China December. It has not indicated when it will be available in the United States.
Pricing reportedly will be about US$220 in Europe and about $315 in China.

There are other modular computers on the market, however.
There's Razer's Project Christine, which has a PCI Express architecture and lets consumers choose modules on the fly, in any combination, and plug them in.
The modules are sealed and self-contained, and they offer active liquid cooling and noise cancellation. Components can be overclocked without voiding warranties.
Xi3 offers the X7A, which consists of a three-board system that can handle three independent monitors. The X7A runs on 30 watts. Old I/O and processor boards can be swapped out for new ones.
The X7A has a quad-core AMD Trinity Series processor of up to 3.2 GHz, a Radeon HD 7660G GPU with 384 programmable cores, 8 GB of DDR3 RAM, an mSATA SSD of 64 GB to 1 TB capacity, two Mini DisplayPorts, one combination HDMI/DisplayPort, and 12 other ports -- four each of eSATAp-III ports (which also support USB 2.0), USB 2.0 ports and USB 3.0 ports. It also has one 1-GB Ethernet port.
The X7A measures 4.3 x 3.6 x 3.6 inches. It comes with a three-year warranty and runs Windows 7 Pro, which costs $137 extra, or openSUSE.
The chassis is priced at $100 to $600, depending on the internal storage.