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so this is the zbox which I looked at as v box a little while ago this is a different month so this is the zbox blue reigns is a copy of cyberlink powerdvd full version bluray player and this is a customizable bare-bones mini PC that features as you may or may not be able to figure out blu-ray so it's powered by nvidia ion which means you also have intel atom going on inside and it has a blu-ray disc player which I have mentioned a couple of times already and why don't we start getting this thing open because most of the other stuff on the outside of the box is all stuff that we can see by opening the box so what do you need to make a bare-bones mini PC into a completely new pc well first you'll need a two and a half inch drive and i would say hard drive but you don't necessarily have to use a hard drive you could use an SSD drive if you wanted a nice silent blu-ray capable media pc and you'll also need some sodium memory i'll find out once we get a little bit further into this weather that is ddr2 or ddr3 looks like it is ddr2 up to a maximum of four gates so that would be two sockets okay and then last but not least you will need an operating system such as Windows 7 okay so here we have instruction or what is this this is a quick start guide which gives you the full specifications of the unit so why don't we have a look at what that is so you've got an intel atom dual-core you've got the nm10 express chipset we talked about memory already next generation nvidia i/o and GPU so that is the second gen 1 we had one USB to one combo e-sata / USB 2 and then we have two USB 3 ports that's a pretty cool feature okay we talked about this Gigabit LAN I Wi-Fi n to channel high definition audio though you're going to have support for 7.1 over HDMI at least I'm assuming you will you better you do otherwise it wouldn't be a very good blu-ray player would it ok let's open this up a little bit front view Wow since leg up it's a poster look at this okay so front view system installation connecting USB 3 devices connecting bunch of different devices that gives you a color guy for installing your memory module installing a hard disk and installing a mini pci express card also i see ok so it doesn't come with Wi-Fi necessarily it says it is 80 2.11 BGN compatible and enhanced wireless security compatible so it looks like you will need to install a mini PCIe Wi-Fi card should you desire Wi-Fi alright next we have this which include some stuff we had some warranty terms that you have a one-year warranty in the Americas there's your cyberlink blu-ray disc solution and hopefully the serial number isn't on there anywhere where you guys are going to like see that okay there's your support CD which is those drivers which you should download the latest from the zotac website here's your user's manual which also includes a lot of the stuff that's on that poster that we found and let's have a look at the unit itself so the first thing I'll actually know what we're going to get to the unit a minute we've got a vesa mount here I'm not going to bother taking that out cuz it looks pretty firmly entrenched in there but it's the same as the one you have on the normal zbox level of the things and we have a power brick she's quite a bit larger than some of the atom based PC power bricks that I've seen but I guess part of that is because we are powering an optical drive we do have some mounting screws for the vesa mount as well as a DVI to vga adapter also in here is quite a bit heavy or too I mean I guess it doesn't really matter for a pc versus for like a netbook then i would actually care how heavy the power adapter is because you have to move around the netbook whereas a pc you don't yeah it actually come looks like a notebook doesn't it like from the bottom I i would i would guess that that's a notebook and that there would be like a screen on the other side that slips up like this anyway let's have a look at the front it's a very slick looking little unit I like it you got like a brushed silver on the top along with a shiny glossy black here with a glowing blue ring alright then on the very front you've got your blu-ray drive which is included by the way you've got an SD reader your USB 2.0 port USB 3.0 superspeed port headphones microphone and a power switch moving along to this side you've got a little zotac logo there which is quite classy hopefully you can see that in the camera moving along to the back we've got our power in a Kensington lock because you might want to lock this baby up you've got optical audio out hdmi out DVI out so you got all the options you need remember you have vga via this one with an adapter if you want this is a USB 2 / eSATA port Gigabit LAN and another USB 3.0 port remember USB 3 points are backwards compatible so you can easily plug USB 2.0 devices into them so here we can see we've got easy access via 6 nice large size screws just standard Phillips head so you can take that whole thing off and still you drive install your memory should use tow desire and surprisingly that's all they're pretty much is to say about it so thank you for checking out my unboxing of you know what I wish I'd told you guys the products model at some point the HDI d33 be are so the BRS for blu-ray and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more tech videos unboxings reviews and all that kind of good stuff