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Hold your horses! Don’t have it … yet, but what I’ve been reading so far about this amazing peace of pico-ITX engineering makes my ‘nerd heart’ beat faster, as I’m a true sucker for systems like these. Quick recap: Micro ATX back in 2001, my involvement as Associate Editor at SFFtech.com in 2002-2004 working with ASUS, MSI, Shuttle barebones, Asus 1000H in 2005, the past few years basically had all kinds of netbooks, a few months ago a refurbished Shuttle X200, and currently an ultrabook predecessor the Dell Latitude D430. Anyway! Nuff about my background. I’ll let Zotac present:
I’ve already did all my research so I’m jumping straight to the comparison of my current ‘workstation’. The U7700 1.33GHz in my current D430 has a CPUbenchmark.net score of 749. The AMD E-450 APU a score of 774. So it seems just slightly faster, but there’s a whole lot more going on. The APU holds an ATI HD6320, that’s three times as fast as the GPU in my D430! And from there on things get really exciting with Kingston V100 series mSATA 64GB SSD, 2x USB3, 2x powered USB2, HDMI 1.4a, eSATA, IR receiver + remote, WiFi 802.11n, Gigabit LAN, mic input, VESA mountable, 6in1 memory card reader, incredible low dimensions (10.6 x 10.6 x 3.7CM), etc. etc. Are you drewling as much as I am already? DIY builds like these won’t cost you ~ 325EUR. Cause that’s how ‘much’ they are charging us!
NXS AD11 info by the manufacturer:
- Official Press Release 11 April 2012
- Zotac USA
- Zotac Global
- Specsheet Brochure (PDF)
- Quick Install Guide (PDF)
- User Manual (PDF)
- Memory compatibility list | yes it comes with 2GB, but can be upgraded to 1x4GB DDR3 SODIMM
- AnandTech.com
- HardwareHeaven.com
- Hardware.info (Dutch)
- HotHardware.com
- Vortez.net
Interesting to note:
- will it run OSX86 / Hackintosh? Nope, but who cares! Windows 7, XBMC or Linux all the way in this particular case! Well add more good info over time. Oh … you do care about Hackintosh support? Then a Zotac Zbox Nano ID61 might be a better fit for you (but you might run into HDMI output issues).
- Zotac has promised to release an optimized XBMC soon! So no second guessing to get OOTB support.
- It’s not passively cooled, and the fan is said to be rather noisy at high CPU loads
- 802.11n WiFi isn’t 300Mbs, but limited to 150Mbps.
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- Nomadlist.com since 2022-04
- Empire.Kred since 2021-07
- Karma-Lab.com since 2019-01
- Invision Community since 2018-05
- Insanely Mac since 2018-02
- eGPU.io since 2017-04
- Tech Inferno since 2016-08
- forum.VestaCP.com since 2016
- WordPress.org since 2015-12
- Couch Surfing since 2014
- BitcoinTalk.org since 2014-03
- Warrior Forum since 2013-07
- Empire Avenue since 2013
forum.OSXLatitude.comsince 2011-08- Envato (i.e. CodeCanyon) since 2011-07
- TripAdvisor since 2010-09
MoneyMakerGroup.comsince 2007-03- HardWare.info since 2003-08
- SynthForum.NL since 2001-11
- gathering.tweakers.net since 2000-11
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- BestProfitsTeam.com since 2017
- CycleClubMembers.com since 2015
- BestSTIFORPteam.com 2013-2021