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so this is the ZBOX which I looked at a ZBOX a little while ago this is a

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different one so this is the ZBOX Blu-ray it includes a copy of CyberLink

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power DVD full version Blu-ray player

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and this is a customizable barebones

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Mini PC that features as you may or may not be able to figure out Blu-Ray so

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it's powered by NVIDIA ion which means you also have Intel atom going on inside

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and it has a Blu-ray disc player which I have mentioned a couple of times already

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and why don't we start getting this thing open because most of the other

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stuff on the outside of the box is all stuff that we can see by opening the

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box so what do you need to make a

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barebones mini PC into a complete Mini

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PC well first you'll need a 2 and 1/2 in

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drive and I would say hard drive but you don't necessarily have to use a hard

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drive you could use an SSD drive if you wanted a nice silent Blu-ray capable

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media PC H you'll also need some sodium

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memory and I'll find out once we get a little bit further into this whether

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that is ddr2 or DDR3 looks like it is

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ddr2 up to a maximum of 4 gigs so that would be two sockets okay and then last

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but not least you will need an operating system such as Windows 7 okay so here we

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have instruction oh what is this this is

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a quick start guide which gives you the full specifications of the unit so why

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don't we have a look at what that is so you got an Intel atom dual core you've

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got the nm10 express chipset we talked about memory already Next Generation

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NVIDIA ion GPU so that is the second gen one we have one USB 2 one combo e satus

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/ USB 2 and then we have two USB 3 ports

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that's a pretty cool feature okay we talked about this gigabit

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Len uh Wi-Fi

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n two channel highdef audio although you're going to have support for uh 7.1

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over HDMI at least I'm assuming you will you

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better you do otherwise it wouldn't be a

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very good Blu-ray player would it okay

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let's open this up a little bit front view I'm just trying wow this thing's

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like a it's a poster look at this okay so front view system installation

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connecting usb3 devices connecting a bunch of different devices they give you

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a color guide for installing your memory module installing a hard disk and

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installing a mini PCI Express card oh so

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I see okay so it doesn't come with Wi-Fi

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necessarily it says it is 802.11 BGN

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compatible and enhanced wireless security compatible so it looks like you

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will need to install a mini PCIe Wi-Fi

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card should you desire Wi-Fi all right next we

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have this which includes some stuff you

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have some warranty terms so you have a one-year warranty in the Americas there

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there's your CyberLink Blu-ray disc solution and hopefully the serial number

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isn't on there anywhere where you guys are going to like see that okay there's

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your support CD which includes drivers which you should download the latest

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from the Zotac website here's your users manual which also includes a lot of the

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stuff that's on that poster that we found and let's have a look at the unit

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itself so the first thing oh actually no we're going to get to the unit in a

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minute we've got a vis amount here I'm not going to bother taking that out cuz

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it looks pretty firmly and entrenched in there but it's the same as the uh one

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you have on the normal ZBOX by a look at things and we have a power brick which

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is quite a bit larger than some of the uh atom based PC power bricks that I've

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seen but I guess part of that is cuz we are powering an optical drive we do have

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some mounting screws for the Visa Mount as well as a DVI to VGA adapter also in

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here it's quite a bit heavier too I mean I guess it doesn't really matter for a

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PC uh versus for like a netbook then I

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would actually care how heavy the power adapter

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is because you have to move around a netbook whereas with a PC you don't

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really all right there we go it actually

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kind of looks like a notebook doesn't it like from the bottom I I would I would

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guess that that's a notebook and that there would be like a screen on the other side that flips up like this so

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anyway let's have a look at the front it's a very slick looking little unit I

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like it you got like a brushed silver on the top along with a shiny glossy black

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here with a glowing blue ring all right then and on the very front you've got

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your Blu-ray Drive which is included by the way you've got an SD reader your USB

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2.0 Port USB 3.0 super speed Port

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headphones microphone and a power switch

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moving along to this side you've got a little Zotac logo there which is quite

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classy hopefully you can see that in the camera moving along to the back we've

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got our power in a Kensington lock cuz you might want to lock this baby up

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you've got optical audio out HDMI out DVI out so you got all the options you

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need remember you have VGA via this one with an adapter if you want this is a

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USB 2/ eeta port gigabit Lan and another

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USB 3.0 Port remember USB 3.0 ports are

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backwards compatible so you can easily plug USB 2.0 devices into them so here

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we can see we've got easy access via six

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nice large size screws just standard phillips head so you can take that whole

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thing off install your drive install your memory should use to desire and

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surprisingly that's all there pretty much is to say about it so thank you for

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checking out my unboxing of the you know what I wish I told you guys the product

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model at some point the HD ID

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33br so the BR is for Blu-ray and don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech tips

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