Zotac AD10 AMD APU Mini PC Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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1,101 words · ~5 min read
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welcome to my unboxing of the ZBOX Nano this is an ad02 series which basically
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means that it is AMD based wait they're
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calling this the ad10 this isn't what I thought it was
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okay well this is the ZBOX Nano 810 so
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this is AMD base so I did at least have that much figured out so this is a dual
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core Apu at 1 .6 GHz which means it has
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integrated Radeon 6310 Graphics uh you
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have to add your own memory up to 4 gigs as well as 2 and 1/2 in drive so that's
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already been done in this unit because we're actually going to be using this
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very unit to show off some pretty cool functionality including XBMC running off
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of this device and powering some very
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intensive HD content in a very small form factor and I'll show you guys the
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form factor in a minute what else we got so for networking we've also got gigabit
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Network as well as Wireless N included
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as and Bluetooth 3.0 it comes with a remote control and integrated IR
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receiver it has an SD card reader onboard 8 channel digital audio via HDMI
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as well as stereo analog audio on the front uh HDMI DisplayPort mic
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headphones uh we've got some documentation here I don't really care
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uh what else we got here your palm siiz Mini
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PC okay sure yeah cool oh here here's
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the English version quick start guide there we go so it shows you how to you
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know put the thing in the thing and plug the other thing into the other thing
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okay included oh actually that's not a bad remote check that out so you got
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your arrows you got your Windows key your play your back your forward all
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your numbers so this is yeah this is uh wow great that's a full Media Center
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remote cool I was not I was not expecting that I was expecting it to
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come with like a Cheesy remote all right what else we got here
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antenna for the wireless uh Power uh cable that plugs into the
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power brick which plugs into the uh ad10
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itself next we've got uh what else oh
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look Basin mounting screws so yes you can mount this to the back of your
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LCD and uh
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oh well gee what's
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this oh that must be the IR receiver neat okay so you can position that
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wherever you want it that's very handy good thinking Zotac so form factor oh
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look at that it comes with this comes with everything it comes with the uh an
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included vesa mounting kit so you can uh
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right out of the box mount it to the back of your TV or monitor or whatever
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else so check out this form factor very
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very cool I'm going to go ahead and take the plastic off here so you guys can see
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this orange ring actually lights up but there is a BIOS option where you can
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disable it so if you want sort of a more stealthy media PC then that is
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definitely an option oh look at this metal construction too this uses
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aluminum construction and then a plastic bottom and a plastic top so you can feel
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it's quite quite cool to the touch which means that besides this venting hole
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right here you're actually going to get a little bit of passive heat output um
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just from the aluminum construction very neat Okay so we've got our microphone
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and headphone SD uh as well as memory stick if anyone still cares about that
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an XD uh maybe that's the infrared receiver okay well either way
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okay between this antenna this thing right here and this thing right here it
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has Bluetooth ir and Wi-Fi okay there um
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here's your power switch is that a reset button no I think that's just an LED uh
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moving around so we've already seen the ventilation port and then there is where
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you plug in that Wi-Fi okay that's going to be Wi-Fi that Wi-Fi antenna we've
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also got an eSATA Port uh doesn't look
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like powered eSATA though so it's just regular eSATA we've got two USB 2.0
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ports a Ken to lock gigabit Ethernet two
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super speed USB 3.0 ports DisplayPort and HDMI out remember that's where
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you're going to get your digital audio out and the power in is right here as
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well on the bottom we find a couple of ventilation holes here and then you can
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see this has been sort of touched a lot already it's actually been opened up so
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you can uh open up the unit install your
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drive install your RAM and then you're pretty much good to go so it's a very
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cool little piece of Hardware you can buy it as a bare bones or you can buy it
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preconfigured with Hardware although if you're buying it on ncx then it's
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probably cheaper to buy the Bare Bones and then buy your own RAM and drive um
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and that way you get to pick whatever you want as well um the person who's
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going to be using this one is actually going to be using just a little 32 gig
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SSD just like an older SSD and throwing it in there uh because it's not going to
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actually have any data on it it's going to be replacing his Network media player
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because between the dual core as well as the dedic dedicated they're integrated
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but sort of dedic ated level AMD HD graphics included it actually
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accelerates Blu-ray significantly better than any of the boxes that he's been
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able to find so that's why he's going with this and this is actually smaller
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than most of the network media player boxes that are out there so very very
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cool so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Zotac
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ZBOX Nano 810 and don't forget to subscribe not only to this channel for
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more unboxings reviews and other computer videos but also to my ncixcom
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channel because that's where we're going to be showcasing the uh nwor streaming
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HD processing capabilities of this little box so stay tuned for that and
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thanks for watching