Ohio, your company's rolling out a full-feathered Personal computer in an itty-bitty package? That's cunning. Spell miniskirt-PCs are all the rage these days, Zotac's been a pioneer in the space for geezerhood, and the fellowship drove that guide home at CES 2022, stocking its suite with more than a 12 diminutive PCs of all prices and capabilities. Rather than try to discriminate one operating theater two, we patterned we'd record you, well, all of them—starting with the custom finished Zbox above, which was touched up by the folk at BS Mods.
Let's dig in, starting with the smallest of them all.
Zotac PC Beat
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Zotac's always done mini-PCs, simply now it's getting into the suddenly popular "PC on a stick" form broker too. The aptly named Zotac PC Stick rocks a space-marrow Intel Molecule x5-Z8300, 2GB of DDR3L-RS memory, 32GB of eMMC memory, 10/100Mbps ethernet, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 4.0. Left-wise there's an HDMI output, a Micro SD slot, and USB for power.
Zotac Pico (Atom x5)
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Zotac reps tell me the innards of the stick PC actually mirror the eyeglasses of the entry-level model in its popular Pico strain. This model (shown here with one on its edge behind one sitting flat) rocks an Intel "Cherry Trail" x5 processor…
Zotac Pico (x7)
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…while its slightly larger brother rocks a Cherry Trail x7 chip and can drive treble displays American Samoa a result.
Zotac Zbox CI323 nano
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The Zotac CI323 nano lacks a sports fan (and an in operation system, as the majority of Zotac's PCs are "bare bones" models with No OS, storage, or Jam installed) for quiet operation. Information technology has a quad-nitty-gritty Intel Celeron N3150 processor, a dyad of raw DDR3L-1600 slots, and an open slot for a 2.5-inch force. You'll find 802.11ac WI-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, dual LAN ports, USB 3.0 Type-C, HDMI, DisplayPort, and VGA connectivity equipped.
Zotac Zbox Z-series
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Zotac's Zbox Z-series PCs, on the other paw, packs a more powerful Intel Core 6300U Skylake processor with HD Graphics 520 and a Type-C larboard packing speedier USB 3.1 technology. Think of it as the Zbox CI323's large sidekic.
Zotac Zbox MI551
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The Zotac Zbox MI551 sports a slightly contrary Skylake Burden i3-6400T C.P.U. with Intel HD 520 graphics, dual DisplayPorts, and an HDMI connection. Zotac's selling this puppy as a miniskirt-Personal computer capable of playing 4K video. In that location's even a big 4K logo on the top of the box seat.
Zotac Zbox EI751
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Now we'Re getting into the more powerful stuff. The Zotac Zbox EI751 rocks Intel's quad-core Core i7-5775R "Broadwell H" processor and its integrated even powerful Iris Pro Artwork 6200 visuals, which influence just fine for ingress equal gaming at moo resolutions. This pup can turnout to a pair of DisplayPorts and exclusive link DVI-D, and Zotac also offers information technology in a "Plus" variant that tosses in 8GB of memory and a 128GB mSATA SSD.
(And yes, I'm using a stock picture here because the one I took sucked.)
Zotac Magnus EN970
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Compared to the Zbox EI751, the Magnus EN970 drops the mainframe down to a dual-core Core i5-5200U, but more than compensates for IT on the nontextual matter forepart by slotting Nvidia's GTX 960 (a fine 1080p graphics card) into the machine. It features four HDMI 2.0 ports, and since the GTX 960 is one of the rarefied few cards that supports HDCP 2.2 imitate protection, the Magnus EN970 could beryllium a guileful choice for a 4K home theater PC.
Zotac Nen Steam Machine
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The Nen was one of the very first Steam Machines to hit the streets, and it's a infrequent breed in Zotac's lineup aside being a complete system, including an operational scheme. (SteamOS, duh.)
Zotac's Steamer Simple machine bundles a quad-core Intel Core i5-6400T CPU with Nvidia's GTX 960, then fills the system out with 8GB of RAM, a 1TB disc drive, four HDMI 2.0 ports, Type-C USB 3.0 ports, and even a Steam Controller. That makes it a solid option for a small gambling PC that slips into your entertainment center, Oregon again, a great HTPC.
Zotac Zbox EA740
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The Zbox EA740 is another mini-PC built for entry-steady gaming, Beaver State more realistically, for running multiple displays from a single small box seat. It packs a Sum i3-6100T Skylake scrap with AMD Radeon R9 M365X graphics as good as a trio of DisplayPorts.
Zotac Zbox paradigm
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Three displays? Pfah! Zotac showed me this prototype Zbox, which rocks more capable (yet undisclosed) internals to power a whopping 6 DisplayPorts. Yes, this small box can power a massive workspace sure-footed of putting NASA to shame. Ain't engineering grand?
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