Comments on: Acer takes on HP in home servers

Acer joins HP in being one of only two major PC companies to offer Windows Home Server in the U.S. Acer matches HP on price and many specs.

[RitoMan]

Nice, I'd hit it!!!

[dcdrew10]

My first question is if it is Apple compatible. The great advantage of the HP series is they are Time Machine friendly. I also wonder what is available as add ins (iTunes server, UPnP for PS3/XBOX, print server, etc). The price is certainly lower than the HP, $100 less for more space and lower power consumption.

[viper396]

Mac's cannot use some of the features, such as the client backup and recovery, but I imagine the basic file sharing and remote access features should work on any Mac with web access.

[dcdrew10]

That is a damn shame because its a nice looking box and has a bit more memory that the HP, but I guess you have to pay that Apple Premium for everything. Not complaining too much, because I love my Macs. It also helps me temper my desire to buy everything under the sun.

[Remo_Williams]

You know what would be better than the home server? The home server with a built-in router, so I can just install one device into the outlet.

[jamesburns00]

I have acer laptop and i not satisfied with that , let's see the Acer server

[SarahHappy]

Any idea what the power usage is on that device when it is sitting idle?

[shootfirst]

Ya imaging is a good idea... I would rather have the data backed up than imaged as imaging does not work great if you image it to different hardware. Also images will have the same inherent flaws that get stored on your computer. Most machines come with reinstallation media or partitions, use these and not images along with copying over backups of your data. Also what verifies that these images were pulled correctly as well, you usually don't know till you cast it back and most users don't have a spare machine with similar hardware to cast it on to test if it worked.

[NWLB]

Interesting, but I haven't wanted one of these since Sun destroyed the Cobalt series of home web servers.

Take an older PC, bolt on as many drives, external and otherwise, and you'll be happier. These little serverlet things are just not powerful enough for geeks, and too technical for non-geeks.

[Squashman2]

viper296, I asked about this during beta testing. I was out at Microsoft a few years ago and we asked about a simple proxy integration, where it would also help control Internet content. They certainly listened to us but they said it wasn't possible in the first release. Maybe in a release down the life cycle.

[nova1313]

What I'd really like to see is tests of multiple computers streaming files and the data throughput rates.

[johnrhoward]

Brilliant. Just what we need to manage and organize our docs, software, photos and videos!!!

The one touch download and sort is great for the wife and web access to photos is fantastic for grandma!

Does anyone know when it might be available in the UK?