Very few OEMs have embraced the SFF like Zotac with their Zbox line of mini-PCs, so it’s great to see them expanding the lineup with Skylake. It looks like they’ve opted to start with a very capable CPU; the 35W quad core Intel Core i5-6400T. The good stuff doesn’t stop there however, with M.2, a 2.5″ drive slot and support […]
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I am going to go out on a limb here and admit that I am a sucker for a cute, little PC. There’s just something about small form factor PCs that has always caught my attention. There was a time when Shuttle was the belle of the SFF ball, but these days the field is quite a bit more crowded, […]
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At Cebit this year, ZOTAC unveiled three new ZBOX mini-PCs. At the show, ZOTAC was also showing off a prototype motherboard for a new generation of ZBOX machines, a motherboard that was only a fraction the size of a mini-ITX board and even smaller than VIA’s pico-ITX standard. It merited little more than a blurb in the Cebit write-ups that […]
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I recently had a Blu-ray player die right in the middle of family movie marathon night, leaving me wishing that my HTPC was equipped to take its place. An HTPC like the ZOTAC ZBOX Blu-ray AD05 Plus would have come in mighty handy. The AD05 is the latest in ZOTAC’s line of Blu-ray equipped mini-PCs. The base model is a […]
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Cebit is usually one of my favorite tech trade shows. CES may be fun, but shows like Computex and Cebit are when the real hardware is unveiled. Unfortunately, between the Windows 8 Consumer Preview release and the new iPad announcement, this year’s Cebit kind of fell through the cracks for me. It’s unfortunate too, because there was some neat stuff on […]
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ZOTAC kicked the new year off at CES with the announcement that would be unleashing a new line of ZBOX mini PCs in both AMD and Intel flavors. We’ve seen a review of the AMD E-450-based AD04, but if Intel Atoms are more your speed, then the ID80 may be worth considering. Under normal circumstances, an Atom-based system would be […]
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ZOTAC got the ball rolling early at CES this year by announcing their 2012 lineup of ZBOX PCs and barebones. The ZBOX systems are extremely compact mini-PCs, well-suited to use as HTPCs. Indeed, the ZBOX AD04 Plus reviewed here even comes with a WMC-compatible remote control and a bracket for mounting the system to the back of a monitor or […]
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Zotac’s Zbox line of mini PCs have always been aimed square at the HTPC market and Zotac is making clear that they plan to continue to chase that market with their 2012 lineup. They have three 2nd-generation Zbox variants on tap this year, the ID80, ID81, and AD04. As in the past, the three Zbox models will come in a […]
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How did I miss posting this review of the latest SFF by our very own Andrew Van Til over at Anandtech. As we’ve come to expect the review is extremely thorough and Andrew does a great job of analyzing it’s performance which he deems is worthy of your living room (as long as your CPU requirements aren’t too demanding). Looking […]
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