It's certainly a capable platform for such a thing. My DCGF-Somethingorother, one of the early atom boards, only has a dual core atom and the shoddy intel integrated and it can handle 720p quite well, that's in Windows XP with XBMC, should format it over to Linux really. But really, if I had the money for an acer aspire revo, I'd be looking for any excuse to get one, a tiny machine that can play HD media and a good selection of games? Exciting.