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Giada N20-W2231 NVIDIA ION GT218 512M 2GB RAM 320G HD WiFi IR Remote Nettop PC

Giada N20-W2231 NVIDIA ION GT218 512M 2GB RAM 320G HD WiFi IR Remote Nettop PC
alaScore 79

17 reviews

Nov, 2024

alaTest has collected and analyzed 17 reviews of Giada N20-W2231 NVIDIA ION GT218 512M 2GB RAM 320G HD WiFi IR Remote Nettop PC. The average rating for this product is 4.1/5, compared to an average rating of 4.1/5 for other Desktops for all reviews.

We analyzed user and expert ratings, product age and more factors. Compared to other Desktops the Giada N20-W2231 NVIDIA ION GT218 512M 2GB RAM 320G HD WiFi IR Remote Nettop PC is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 79/100 = Good quality.

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Great system and service!

 

Great little system. Very speedy and tiny in size. Most impressive to me though was the service! I had the unit in a dusty area and it became clogged inside the box, causing the system to overheat after about 15 minutes. I called the service dept at...

None

Dec, 2011

Consumer review (newegg.com)

Perfect

 

I bought this unit to run MythTV in the bedroom. It is small, quiet, and the ION2 graphics are easily powerful enough to display 720p and 1080i content. The fact it comes pre-installed with RAM and a hard drive at it's price level is great

Only 3 USB ports made it clunky to setup an OS as I had to use a keyboard, mouse, and USB media device to do the initial setup and was unable to setup some peripherals until establishing remote management of the box

Sep, 2011

Consumer review (newegg.com)

Could be perfect

 

My hunch is that Giada has changed the hardware as this product has evolved. I've had email conversations with folks who say their GPU is reported as being different than the one I have. One guy I know had Ubuntu up and running on wireless with the...

It's small, will fit alongside amps and Tivos and whatnot fairly easily ; The included remote has good support in XBMC. You can just install XBMC and navigate around, play a movie, etc ; It's very quiet, and it only gets warm when playing video

Driver support is beyond appalling. Ubuntu 11.04 (the newest release) doesn't have wireless support out of the box. Graphics support is there, sorta, but it's fiddly if you want to get 3D working. HDMI output by default will be with fonts about 1/110th...

Sep, 2011

Consumer review (newegg.com)

Powerful Tiny Computer

 

I love this little machine already, but it was a bit of a pill to get setup. First thing I did was use a jumpdrive with SLAX on it and used fdisk to redo the partitions. This came with some FreeDos OS that had some benchmark testing tools... but I...

HDMI ; Size ; Dual Monitor (extended or clone) with VGA & HDMI (I tested this myself) ; Built in Wireless LAN Card ; No Protruding Antenna (It's wired inside like a netbook/laptop) ; Dual Core Atom @ 1.8Ghz ; NVidia Ion 2 with built in 512MB of Ram ;...

Wired Lan didn't work and I had to open the box (voiding the warranty I'm sure) to unplug the battery from the mother board to reset it. After that it worked flawlessly ; To get all of the Drivers to work I had to install XP Service Pack 3 before some...

Sep, 2011

Consumer review (newegg.com)

Not a gaming desktop replacement

 

Units comes ready to install the OS. Just make sure you have 1. USB stick or external CD drive with OS installation on it 2. USB Keyboard/mouse then you are ready to install the OS. I went with Ubuntu 11.04, smooth installation, around 10mins....

The overall unit seems to be built with quality ; Love the look and size ; The stand isn't cheap & flimsy, it's made out of "solid steel" and good weight as a base ; Comes with an HDMI cable!!! whoot

5400 rpm Harddrive.... bleeh ; WirelessN but feels like WirelessG speed... another bleeh ; Opening the case VOIDS your warranty ; You're stuck with 2GB Ram and the 320GB 5400rpm Hard Drive

Aug, 2011

Consumer review (newegg.com)

Size matters!

 

It seems like Giada has positioned this device to "for dummies" category -no obvious access to BIOS ( press "del" during startup to access it), no easy way to upgrade RAM and/or HDD. Which is wrong - "dummy" users will simply return that device by...

Size!!! Incredibly small! about 6"x6"x1/2" - easily mistaken to a cellphone. LOL ; It is not getting hot as others indicated - with a correct setup ( shift everything to GPU instead of CPU) it just gets a bit worm ; You MUST chose correct applications...

No USB wake up from sleep! If you have a RF keyboard and/or in-air RF USB remote/mouse - you will not be able to wake up your device by pressing a key. You'll have to get to the PC and press power button to wake it up ; However it appears a common...

Mar, 2011

Consumer review (newegg.com)

Works

 

If you're looking for a media pc this is definitely the way to go. The remote works well however I programmed my Harmon remote which runs the rest of my entertainment system.

Runs 1080p with Boxee 100 ; Windows 7 installed from USB with no issues ; Low power usage, low noise and low profile ; Excellent value

NA

Mar, 2011

Consumer review (newegg.com)

Great HTPC!

 

I use this for my HTPC to watch movies streaming from my PC. Have not had any issues so far using wired ethernet and XBMC. Some people will be upset if they expect this thing to play games or for global climate modeling and stuff.....

Tiny size ; Fast boot / wakeup - Windows 7 ; Quiet ; HDMI ; WiFi ; Bluetooth ; SD/Multi reader ; 2gb ram ; 512 vid ram ; 320gb hd ; IR - Remote included ; PRICE ; WTW

Only con I can think of is the placement of the audio jacks for the phones / mic on top under a flap thing that pops up and hangs off the side. If you are going to be using this with external audio not via HDMI then it will look kind of messy

Feb, 2011

Consumer review (newegg.com)

Perfect for a secondary XBMC box

 

A majority of the XBMC functions work with the remote but some important ones, like subtitles on/off and subtitle cycle, did not. I ended up remapping the number keys in the XBMC keyboard.xml to work with the subtitle functions and it works perfectly....

I purchased this to use for XBMC in the bedroom. I was very interested in this since it had the built-in IR and included remote. 1080p videos play beautifully and the unit is very quiet

Had issues installing Windows 7 from a USB drive. Installation from MMC went smoothly, however. IR port isn't recognized by Girder or Eventghost

Feb, 2011

Consumer review (newegg.com)

As expected

 

The N20 is a nice way to have a powerful XBMC unit which should last for years without slowing down. It remains a 100% PC, so there is no need to hack or jailbreak anything to make it work. I installed Ubuntu 10.10 and XBMC 10.0 without any problems. I...

I don't seem to be getting a good wireless reception range with it when compared to my laptop. Don't know yet what is causing this

Feb, 2011
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