Zotac Announces The AD10, Palm Sized ZBOX Powered By AMD Brazos
Zotac Announces The AD10, Palm Sized ZBOX Powered By AMD Brazos
Posted 09/04/2011 at 10:34am
| by Justin Kerr
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If you’ve been looking to build an HTPC, but either didn’t care for a hot & loud full tower case, or simply couldn’t stomach the paltry performance of Atom powered nettop boxes, we have great news for you. Zotac sent out a press release today announcing the release of the palm sized ZBOX nano AD10, with pretty impressive performance, at what appears to be a fairly reasonable price.
Unique to the AD10 is an AMD E-350 APU, along with a Radeon HD 6310 graphics chip. Like the rest of the AD series, this ultra-portable also includes Wi-Fi N, Bluetooth 3.0, a Windows Media Center remote / IR receiver, and even a pair of USB 3.0 ports.
The $276 asking price is also pretty reasonable when you consider it also includes 2GB of DDR3 and a 320GB hard drive as standard. Like most of the ZBOX’s this is a bring your own OS sort of deal, but if you have a spare copy of Windows lying around, is a great budget HTPC.
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maddingo
September 04, 2011 at 1:59pm
do you guys now what sort of if any fans that thing has
my shuttle SFF has taught me that the trade off for small can be noise =p in the power supply in my shuttle is way to loud w/ a obnoious 60mm ... in fact now it has to live in a closet as a file server cause I can't stand it being next to me.
veryoldgamer
September 04, 2011 at 3:47pm
Geoff at TechReport.com did an excellent full review including dis-assembly of the unit. His major gripe was indeed the fan. It does have admirable UEFI access fan controls and the out-of-the-box decibel level is just fine but he is concerned time will not be kind to the fan's noise output.
He did give it an "Editor's Choice" rating however. Also confirmed $320 for the Plus version. Very favorable review.
Looks like I'll be giving it a go.
veryoldgamer
September 04, 2011 at 12:57pm
Hi Justin,
Please try to confirm that $276 asking price. I'm old and it is Sunday so all my neurons are not firing but I don't think that price is doable for everything except the OS.
If so I'll be buying several
Edit: After a little research, I'm seeing $320 for the Plus and $270 for the barebones. Reference AVS forum. Still interesting and quite a value with a Linux OS or if you have a spare copy of Windows lying around
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