so this is the ZBOX which I looked at a ZBOX a little while ago this is a
different one so this is the ZBOX Blu-ray it includes a copy of CyberLink
power DVD full version Blu-ray player
and this is a customizable barebones
Mini PC that features as you may or may not be able to figure out Blu-Ray so
it's powered by NVIDIA ion which means you also have Intel atom going on inside
and it has a Blu-ray disc player which I have mentioned a couple of times already
and why don't we start getting this thing open because most of the other
stuff on the outside of the box is all stuff that we can see by opening the
box so what do you need to make a
barebones mini PC into a complete Mini
PC well first you'll need a 2 and 1/2 in
drive and I would say hard drive but you don't necessarily have to use a hard
drive you could use an SSD drive if you wanted a nice silent Blu-ray capable
media PC H you'll also need some sodium
memory and I'll find out once we get a little bit further into this whether
that is ddr2 or DDR3 looks like it is
ddr2 up to a maximum of 4 gigs so that would be two sockets okay and then last
but not least you will need an operating system such as Windows 7 okay so here we
have instruction oh what is this this is
a quick start guide which gives you the full specifications of the unit so why
don't we have a look at what that is so you got an Intel atom dual core you've
got the nm10 express chipset we talked about memory already Next Generation
NVIDIA ion GPU so that is the second gen one we have one USB 2 one combo e satus
/ USB 2 and then we have two USB 3 ports
that's a pretty cool feature okay we talked about this gigabit
Len uh Wi-Fi
n two channel highdef audio although you're going to have support for uh 7.1
over HDMI at least I'm assuming you will you
better you do otherwise it wouldn't be a
very good Blu-ray player would it okay
let's open this up a little bit front view I'm just trying wow this thing's
like a it's a poster look at this okay so front view system installation
connecting usb3 devices connecting a bunch of different devices they give you
a color guide for installing your memory module installing a hard disk and
installing a mini PCI Express card oh so
I see okay so it doesn't come with Wi-Fi
necessarily it says it is 802.11 BGN
compatible and enhanced wireless security compatible so it looks like you
will need to install a mini PCIe Wi-Fi
card should you desire Wi-Fi all right next we
have this which includes some stuff you
have some warranty terms so you have a one-year warranty in the Americas there
there's your CyberLink Blu-ray disc solution and hopefully the serial number
isn't on there anywhere where you guys are going to like see that okay there's
your support CD which includes drivers which you should download the latest
from the Zotac website here's your users manual which also includes a lot of the
stuff that's on that poster that we found and let's have a look at the unit
itself so the first thing oh actually no we're going to get to the unit in a
minute we've got a vis amount here I'm not going to bother taking that out cuz
it looks pretty firmly and entrenched in there but it's the same as the uh one
you have on the normal ZBOX by a look at things and we have a power brick which
is quite a bit larger than some of the uh atom based PC power bricks that I've
seen but I guess part of that is cuz we are powering an optical drive we do have
some mounting screws for the Visa Mount as well as a DVI to VGA adapter also in
here it's quite a bit heavier too I mean I guess it doesn't really matter for a
PC uh versus for like a netbook then I
would actually care how heavy the power adapter
is because you have to move around a netbook whereas with a PC you don't
really all right there we go it actually
kind of looks like a notebook doesn't it like from the bottom I I would I would
guess that that's a notebook and that there would be like a screen on the other side that flips up like this so
anyway let's have a look at the front it's a very slick looking little unit I
like it you got like a brushed silver on the top along with a shiny glossy black
here with a glowing blue ring all right then and on the very front you've got
your Blu-ray Drive which is included by the way you've got an SD reader your USB
2.0 Port USB 3.0 super speed Port
headphones microphone and a power switch
moving along to this side you've got a little Zotac logo there which is quite
classy hopefully you can see that in the camera moving along to the back we've
got our power in a Kensington lock cuz you might want to lock this baby up
you've got optical audio out HDMI out DVI out so you got all the options you
need remember you have VGA via this one with an adapter if you want this is a
USB 2/ eeta port gigabit Lan and another
USB 3.0 Port remember USB 3.0 ports are
backwards compatible so you can easily plug USB 2.0 devices into them so here
we can see we've got easy access via six
nice large size screws just standard phillips head so you can take that whole
thing off install your drive install your memory should use to desire and
surprisingly that's all there pretty much is to say about it so thank you for
checking out my unboxing of the you know what I wish I told you guys the product
model at some point the HD ID
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