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·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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1,149 words · ~5 min read
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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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