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no kidding here guys i legitimately laughed out loud when i first opened up

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the box for the z box pico from zotac i mean not a throaty you know

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that might have attracted some unwanted attention in the office but definitely a

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chuckle i just couldn't believe that they got a whole computer into

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this

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so this is the zbox pico it features a quad core 22 nanometer Intel atom

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z3735f that runs at a nominal frequency of 1.33 gigahertz but can turbo boost up

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to 1.83 gigahertz it's got 2 gigs of starter ddr3 low power memory running in

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a single channel config Intel hd graphics built in wireless and bluetooth

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and a 32 gig emmc SSD that can be

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expanded with the built-in microsdxc reader for storage moving along the

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outside of the unit aside from that card reader you'll find a power button that

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lights up the top with a very pleasing zotac logo a 100 Ethernet port two usb 2

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ports and a headphone jack and then finally an HDMI port another

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usb 2 port and power in overall i'm mostly pleased with the

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specs it's obviously not the most powerful pc in the world but you get a

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full x86 computer in an enclosure the size of a couple of stacked smartphones

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and io is okay you get a surprising number of ports considering the size of

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the unit but usb 3 and gigabit lan would have been nice to have and a microphone

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input is in my mind a must-have considering this baby's power efficiency

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and included vasa compatible mount just screams use me as a basic pc for mum to

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use for skype and whatnot a usb headset

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is an option but it will add more cost to this basic setup that could have been

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better spent on a more powerful pc if we were going to spend more money on it

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anyway on the other hand that more powerful pc

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might be significantly more expensive than the zotac zbox pico because this is

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by far the least costly computer i've

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ever touched that comes pre-loaded with a fully licensed copy of Windows 8.1

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don't let the with bing bit scare you away either all it means

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is that bing is the default search engine something you can easily change

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on your own in two seconds other than that it's the real deal full Windows 8.1

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experience unreal you'll have about 18 gigs of space free on the boot drive

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once you set up Windows install some alternative browsers and whatnot so the

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first thing i decided to do of course was use up some of that space by

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installing 3dmark i mean it's all well and good if zotac crammed the hardware

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in there but especially given that this baby is passively cooled by a little

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strip of aluminum around the outside i wanted to see what kind of temperatures

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we'd see on that heatsink if we started pushing it

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not bad i mean the outer housing we measured it with our ir thermometer

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really didn't get that hot and even more impressively at the wall

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that's all the power draw we got i mean i guess i should have seen the

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efficiency coming when i noticed that the included power brick is a tiny and b

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only rated at 5 volts 3 amps or a total of 15 watts

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but i guess if you've made it this far in the video and you're kind of suitably

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impressed by all of that you might be sitting there nodding along going oh

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yeah Linus that's cool or whatever um i suspect there's also a good chance that

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you're sitting there asking yourself well hold on a second who the heck is this product actually made for to which

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i would answer great question zotac has pictures of business people slipping

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them into their pockets but i think the idea of you know jane businesswoman

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abandoning her laptop to carry a pc in her purse that while tiny on its own

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also needs to be accompanied by a battery input devices and a display to

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make it even somewhat useful is sorry zotac frankly ridiculous but that

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doesn't mean it's useless either though a couple much more likely uses for a

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silent compact inexpensive pc that comes pre-loaded with what would normally be a

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hundred dollar os on its own would be a a basic pc for our family member who

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doesn't need a powerful computer or a media pc box now

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arguably a chromecast or Android stick of some sort would make more sense for

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most media streaming applications but one key feature that those are missing

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is steam in-home streaming support with the built-in h.264 decoder and a gaming

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pc somewhere else in the house you can stream games to yourself check out this

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video for a more in-depth look at steam and home streaming it's a really cool

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technology and i think that even though this picot dropped too many frames for

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me to really recommend buying it for this purpose today a hypothetical pico 2

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should be able to handle this kind of streaming really well and i'm excited

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for the future speaking of streaming by the way guys if you aren't satisfied

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