DELL Inspiron Zino HD

Introducing the new InspironTM  Zino HD mini desktop computer. You’ll be amazed by how many powerful features are inside such a perfectly small 8" by 8" square.

• Personalize with 10 optional interchangeable colors and designs
• Genuine Windows®  7 Home Premium 64-Bit
• Its small form factor conveniently fits just about anywhere
• Watch your favorite movies with the built-in HDMITM  port and DVD-RW
• Optional discrete graphics, more memory and larger hard drive storage for amazing performance
• Meets Energy Star®  5.0 Standards

Not So Ordinary

Feast your eyes on the new ultra small and light Inspiron™ Zino HD mini desktop. Its modest design breaks the mold with a mighty offering of features that reinvents your home entertaining experience.

A Perfect Square

Designed to fit just about anywhere, the Inspiron Zino HD packs power and entertainment into a 8" by 8" package. And with the option to interchange a choice of 7 vibrant colors plus 3 unique designs, the Zino HD can either blend in or stand out. Choose the standard Piano Black finish or customize yours with one or more of these optional styles: Flamingo Pink, Formula Red, Tangerine Orange, Plum Purple, True Blue, Spring Green and a choice of 3 patterns by artists Derek Welch, Mike Ming and Brittany Waldner.

Foxconn nT-3700 small and exquisite

New nano-PC barebone by Foxconn.
Small and slim size, noiseless is the best choice of being placed at home or office.

• CPU type: AMD E450 APU
• Memory: 1x DDR3-1333 SODIMM Slot, Max capacity up to 4GB
• Hard Drive: 1x 2.5 inch SATA2 HDD
• Audio: Built-in Microphone & Speaker; Combo Analog & Digital
• Video: AMD Radeon HD 6320 
• LAN: Integrated Gigabit Ethernet Controller, 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN
• Ports: 4x USB 2.0 Port; 2x USB 3.0 Ports; 1x DVI Port; 1x HDMI Port; 1x RJ45 LAN Port; 1x Microphone-in; 1x Headphone-out
• Card Reader: 5-in-1 Card Reader, Supports SD/SDHC/MS/MS Pro/MMC
• AC Adapter: 65W, 19V, 3.42A
• Color: Black
• Dimensions: 190.0 x 135.0 x 25.0 mm
• Weight: 450.0 g

AMD launches Trinity A-Series APU

Before AMD launched its first-generation Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) last year the only real option you had for a small, low power PC was an Intel Atom solution. Unless you combined the Atom chip with Nvidia’s ION chipset (or a discrete card) it was rather lacking in the graphics department. That’s where the APU shone due to its inclusion of a Radeon GPU.

Today, AMD launched its second generation 32nm A-Series APU named Trinity, and it promises to give a major performance boost to HTPCs, nettops, desktop machines, and laptops.

AMD is claiming that the new Trinity APUs offer up double the performance of the previous generation while retaining the same power use. The new Piledriver CPU means higher clock speeds and performance gains of up to 29%. As for graphics, you should be able to enjoy smooth gaming and media playback due to the inclusion of a Radeon 7000 series GPU offering a 56% performance gain over Llano.

Although there are performance gains across the entire range of APUs, it looks as though laptops using Trinity will see the most gains. AMD has cut power use down to 17 watts for the dual core and 25 watts for quad-core chips. Llano used 35 watts and 45 watts respectively. AMD is claiming up to 12 hours of battery life in the equivalent of an Ultrabook running the new APU, but that’s clearly going to vary depending on the hardware.

In total, five Trinity APUs have been unveiled today, which are detailed in the tables below :

As well as updating the hardware, AMD has also introduced some new technology to the mix. The new APUs will support an Eyefinity multi-display setup without requiring a discrete graphics card. Another clever move is AMD Radeon dual graphics, meaning you can add a discrete graphics card to an APU system and benefit from enhanced performance through CrossFire using both GPUs.

We can expect to see both Trinity laptops and desktop machines appearing later this year. Hopefully we’ll also see a number of mini-ITX boards appearing allowing us to build our own nettops and HTPCs.

through http://www.geek.com/

Mini PC can use SSD as cache, supports Sandy Bridge CPUs

Shuttle announced a mini PC that includes multiple expansion slots and is designed so that an SSD (solid state drive) can augment its hard disk speed. The SZ68R5 supports Intel "Sandy Bridge" Core processors, accepts up to 32GB of RAM in four DIMM slots, has three drive bays (one 5.25-inch, two 3.5-inch), and includes 12 USB ports, according to the company.

Like other Shuttle mini PCs we've covered -- 2010's XS35, to cite one example -- the new SZ68R5 comes in "barebone" form, making it ideal for those who want to choose their own operating system, RAM, drives, and other components. This particular system, however, is aimed at customers with demanding applications, not power-sipping embedded use, as its 500-Watt power supply makes clear.

According to Shuttle, the SZ68R5 supports LGA1155-socketed "Sandy Bridge" processors ranging from the 1.6GHz, single-core Celeron G440 (35-Watt TDP) to the 3.5GHz, quad-core Core i7-2700K (95-Watt TDP). All in all, there are 37 different choices, as listed via a table on the device's data sheet.

The processor of choice may be accompanied by up to 32GB of 1066/1333MHz DDR3 RAM, installed in the device's four DIMM slots, Shuttle says. Meanwhile, the SZ68R5 employs Intel's Z68 Express chipset (block diagram farther below), which not only supports RAID (0, 5, and 10) disk arrays but also provides one of the system's more unusual attributes.

Specifically, Shuttle says, the Z68's "Smart Response Technology" (SRT) allows a relatively small SSD (solid state disk) to be placed in the SZ68R5's mSATA (Mini Serial ATA) expansion slot, from where it will act as a cache for the system's hard disk drive (HDD). Built into the PC's firmware, SRT can deliver a 60 percent performance improvement over a HDD-only system, according to the company. (To the best of our knowledge, however, SRT requires a Windows device driver, and provides no benefit with Linux.)

According to Shuttle, the SZ68R5 has two 6Gbit/sec. SATA ports and two 4Gbit/sec. SATA ports on its motherboard, plus an external 5.25-inch drive bay and two 3.5-inch bays that can be accessed either internally or externally. It also features an eSATA port on its rear panel, the company adds.