Zotac MAG HD-ND01-U Atom 330 2GB 160GB GBLAN WiFi 4-IN-1 Card Reader VGA HDMI All-in-One Mini PC

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Comes with out M$ junk OS. (This is a pro not a con).Runs XBMC no dilemma. Can manage higher ࿃Mbps) bitrate content material on a wired connection. Wireless can do 12 Mbps (updated drivers). With the NVIDIA ION the workload is offloaded from the CPU to the video processor. Boot time from a cold start out to XBMC is 18 seconds. Wake from standby by means of USB works. HDMI audio functions. Almost silent with the appropriate settings. I like this tiny box and am content with it. Wireless BLOWS. If you are fortunate enough (and intelligent sufficient) to be a linux user the wireless signal strength can be doubled with the use of the bleeding edge compat wireless drivers. Before install I was finding 35% or much less forty feet away. After the bleeding edge driver set up its at 65% same location. It will now stream 12 Mbps Bitrate HD content material. If you want to go linux XBMC get the XCI set up script. All in 1 set up answer.Try some different fan settings to suit your noise level.Mine are 50ኬቺ론 TempsGPU 72CPU 69

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Extremely modest, effortless to use. Lots of diverse connectors to meet most people's desires. Looks like and clean in my media cabinet sitting subsequent to the DVD player. Initially when I went to buy it, a single of the deciding elements was that NewEgg listed it with a "lifetime warranty." I noticed that when I opened the box the card is for 1 year and now NewEgg website reflects that. To me, that is not cool. I hope this lasts longer than a year. I'm often a tiny concerned about silent systems that run hot.That is why I marked it down to 4 eggs. Haven't had problems with wireless like some report. Maybe they need to use a wifi analyzer and figure out what channel is best in their neighborhood.

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Sleek. Quite efficient for such a tiny system. Mounts on the back of my monitor like a champ (except for the 90 degree adapter ordered from spamazon for my HDMI that has but to ship...) Heat. This point runs at 86-88C idling. 90-92C with a load. The very good point is that these issues are designed to handle it. Life expectancy should be at least extended sufficient until I get prepared to purchase the Atom II (let's hope.) If this issue does burn out any time soon it will make a handy paperweight on my workbench subsequent to the affordable skunk brand pipe cleaner...

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For the reviewer who rightly noted that XP will bluescreen, the option is to slipstream SP3 and then install from it- worked for me. None.

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Will acquire another None correct now You have to slipstream SP3!!!!

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I bought this to use as an HTPC...it runs Ubuntu 10.04 quite nicely, and Boxee installed and ran without having a hitch. Worth the cost seeing as it comes with a 160GB HDD and 2GB RAM installed. Not as loud as other reviews state. HDMI outputs beautifully to my Tv. The screws that came with the VESA mount have been too short to screw into my Tv. Fortunately, I had four longer VESA screws from an additional display mount that I wasn't utilizing that worked. The box does run a small warm, averaging about 50C when idling.I haven't tried the wireless, mostly since I don't like streaming more than the air. I'd substantially rather use a wired network. I don't have a wifi-n router, anyway, so I wouldn't be able to take complete benefit of the speed. Plus, my Television is positioned in the living space appropriate more than where the router is in the basement, so it wasn't hard to run a cable to it.

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Works- installed Win7Pro. Enjoy the wall mount. Operating three Channel Sip Trunk with out issues. Drivers had been a tiny challanging but came off properly

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quite light, has hdmi, estate connection Slow challenging drive, slow usb jack on a single side, usb connections cut in and out on ALL of them, majorly slower than even my roommates Gateway netbook with decrease specs. Sound jack doesn't function after installing most up-to-date Nvidia updates and now only recognizes hdmi sound, which isn't even plugged in! HDMI won't adjust resolution if you switch displays, so my 24 inch is treated like my 55inch!. Forums have little help for these mini pcs now. Zotac hasn't gotten into the game server company and they are by far the slowest servers I've ever played on. This organization is basically as minimalist as it gets. Reviewers saying it performs nicely certainly have not utilized a great netbook or computer for that matter.

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Modest, relatively rapidly machine. Decently priced. Plays high-def video like a champ. Some extra configuration is necessary to get rid of screen tearing with Ubuntu 9.10/XBMC. A lot more an Ubuntu concern than with the hardware. This setup with an MCE remote (don't overlook to install lirc-x on desktop distros) operates pretty substantially out of the box. I'm truly pleased with the outcomes. Search the XBMC forums and you must rapidly uncover a repair for screen tearing concerns.

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HD playback is awesome.Windows 7 Pro runs flawlesslySound and Image one hundred% clean and clear Wireless-N a tiny wanting. May possibly have to get a 3rd celebration adapter. My wife's puny little Gateway netbook crushes the wireless capability on the Zotac. Family members calls it Zoltar !It's 99% of what I wanted. They shouldn't have scrimped with the 1 wire antenna, really serious bean-counter brain-fart. Really like that I didn't have to spend for useless software that I'd wind up deleting anyway. Paired it with a nMediaPC keyboard and remote manage. Behaves nicely with them.

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ION GPUCUDASmall kind aspectgreat costappears great WIRELESS IS THE WORST. SEE CONVERSATION WITH ZOTAC TECH Help:Zotac: vansmack, how far is your router from your computer?vansmack: 25 feet, clear view of the N routerZotac: Sir, I feel that's quite far currently.vansmack: Effectively, this Wireless G laptop is correct next to the Hd-ND01 and it has complete bars and can stream just finevansmack: But the Zotac machine has two bars and it's Nvansmack: My wife's N laptop can be in the next area and get four barsZotac:: In fact, I've read a couple of critiques from our customers and even on 22 feet distance, video playback is not possible as they say.vansmack: With your machine, yes, but not with this laptop or my wife's laptopvansmack: Thats my pointZotac:: That is what specifically I am attempting to say sir.vansmack: I guess I'm confused. Are you saying that 22 feet is typical for your machine? That it's acceptable or that it's a problem?Zotac: That is acceptable it is just the typical capability of the machine. ATOM CPU is fine for net browsing and so on, but it can't even decode and playback 480p FLASH based video. for example from HULU / YOUTUBE. Quite worthless.The wireless is such garbage. I am sitting 15 feet from my N router and I have 2 bars, and am finding file system errors trying to copy a smaller file across the wireless network. If I go in the next room I cant even see the router.

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Tiny package - VESA mounts suitable up - appears clean - lifetime warranty. and the GPU didn't operate out of the box with the mythfe - but it worked good with the VDPAU mplayer that was in the package.(mplayer -vc ffh264vdpau -vo vdpau video.mkv) is key! Really new hardware - integration for linux based VDPAU / sound setups will be carried out by you - till ubuntu versions their nvidia drivers. It didn't "feel" that rapid compared to the other hosts that I run (phenom II kvm virtual primarily based systems) single core, but that's a fairly rapid processor vs an atom.

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Quiet, quickly and capable. Installed XP Pro from a USB CD and upgraded to Win7 Pro. All the hardware was found and drivers had been installed. Didn't have to search for any.Added a 23" Acer monitor with DVI making use of the HDMI port and an adapter cable. Just worked. An old HP LCD is plugged into the VGA as a second screen. The Zotac is mounted on the Acer monitor employing the VESA mounting holes, so it doesn't take up any desk space. USB keyboard, mouse, CD/DVD burner, external HDD, and scanner all work excellent. MS Workplace 2007 and Quickbooks 2010 run nicely. None

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It runs Ubuntu 9.ten without having an challenge, and after a lot configuration is the great media center with xbmc and gpu acceleration for my 1080p content material. The fan is fairly quiet (not silent but if you are watching a movie or listening to music you will not notice it) and there enough ports on this point to plug every thing you could possibly have into it. Oh and the packaging for this device was truly effectively thought out which speaks to the excellent of the solution. Effectively the very first point is dont plan to set up windows xp with an external cd drive, it will blue screen ( i did not realize this) nonetheless vista and 7 will function fine, as effectively as any linux distro that i can imagine. Honestly for this cost there are no better selections out there. If you program to run ubuntu 9.ten and install xbmc 9.11 here are a couple of words of guidance: you will have to manually edit the xorg.conf file or else there will be tearing in xbmc as you play back content. There is a tutorial on the internet that has you add various entries, 1 of them is tripplebuffer to the device section, dont add this simply because it will cause an error is xorg.conf

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Dual Core Processor, Constructed in Wireless N, Little form factor, Energy Consumption, Zotac manufactured. None that I can assume of. I have been seeking into HTPC's and I have been researching costs, evaluations and so fourth. I built a monster HTPC for my living room a couple of years back and was sadden at the money I spent to use it like you would webtv. Lets face it I am married and my wife will not shed the living room to a Pc. I have my power home AMD 955 in the bedroom which I do my gaming on and so fourth but was looking for one thing reasonably priced to put into my entertainment program. I have priced out creating one, piecing it together, looked at the ASROCK, Acer and for the price this tiny unit flips the bill and we can attached to our 24 inch monitor and take it in our motorhome with us the best answer all the way around. If you are seeking for a gaming Computer this is not it. If you are searching to surf the internet, e-mail, images and video at a tiny price with no work this is a excellent remedy.

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High worth, versital, convient. Quiet, compitent. None. Extremely satisfied with our new Zotac. Vista was our initially brief lived operating system set up.We have been capable to watch a HuLu movie making use of ZOTAC's create-in Wi-Fi. We used Zotac's supplyed drivers.But we felt somthing went incorrect with the Vista install.Windows 7 64 Bit installed promptly more than Vista, making use of a Samsung external USB / DVD Writer, "Se-SO84. From NewEgg, creating the Zotac MAG HD-ND01 into a beneficial addition to our property. My wife has her iPad, i have my Zotac and iPhone. Whats next?The Wi-Fi is all we use for the net. Windows7 has updated its driver. Hulu's films are clear and enjoyable. We use the fiber optic cable to the Vizio Sound Bar/ wireless bass driver,, HDMI to our 42" Vizio Tv. Microsoft Wireless Keyboard and Mouse 30000 v2. We locate it really hard to locate time to watch CoxCable. but we can operate the Tv on the exact same screen. I'm considering of adding Ubuntu double booting with Win7. Just due to the fact we can....

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N330 rips by means of processing of videos and tasks! Seriously a excellent little chip. Also, the ION is good for offloading the video processing to the GPU. Make certain you use Media Player Classic to take full advantage. Appears cool.Make good quality is actually good. Runs Windows 7 Ultimate x86 like a dream. Horrible wireless! I have posted on their forum and they have not had any functioning ideas. It is flat out useless if you are any farther than 6ft and even inside 6 ft you will only get about 500KB/s if you're lucky. I am making use of a WRT54GS v.1.1 with Tomato 1.27, 7dBi antennas and bumped the transmit power to 60-90mW. Tried every single driver identified to man and the speed and connectivity is horribly spotty. I just can't inform you how much this frustrates me. You ruin a wonderful solution by possessing a crapping wireless card!So, I decided to replace the wireless card with an Intel 4965AGN. The signal got a little greater but would in no way hold a very good connection. My M1330, D820 and 1000HE function wonderful all all through my house with no troubles whatsoever... If you are operating wired - get it no inquiries asked it is excellent.If you are operating wireless preserve in mind you will will need to buy a USB adapter which completely ruins the compact and sleek nature of this device.

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Every thing you will need for a tiny media computer in a tiny package and for a great price. No firewire I installed MythBuntu from a thumb drive and had a MythTV frontend running in less than an hour. I have read reviews about the wireless not cutting the mustard. Mine is difficult-wired, so I can't attest to that. I had some trouble finding a wireless USB keyboard to get detected rapidly adequate to enter setup. I employed an older USB keyboard I had laying around and managed to get into setup w/o a problem.Based on the high quality of your thumb drive, you could have to try numerous instances to get it to perform. Attempt forcing FDD in bios. There is a enormous difference involving a "freebie" thumb drive you get from some vendor and a higher quality one. Just be certain to use a fantastic one particular and you'll be just fine.I am going to purchase one more one of these for another space in my home. If you're hunting for a great, cost-effective frontend, you can't beat this point. Buy it! :-)

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Excellent form aspect. Duel core.ION. The wireless N is useless. My wireless signal is superb but my throughput is around 350kbps.Zotac refuses to acknowledge the problem, or help consumers.Verify their forums, Zotac MAG HD-ND01 challenges go ignored. Zotac need to be sending out fixes for the wireless N.

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comparatively low-cost laptop, case is fashionable albeit the plastic is somewhat low-cost, the ports are in the appropriate regions. no keyboard/mouse straight out of the box. lack of overclocking computer software is a travesty given that its an atom/ion combo. I'd my reservations about buying this personal computer due to the weak atom processor. But following installing the lastest versions of adobe flash player/silverlight; hulu, megavideo, & netflix ran very smoothly (cpu utilization was about 31%, which is decent). Primarily, I'm making use of this computer to stream online content material & web surfing. This little computer has exceeded my expectations.I'm going to push it and see how photoshop fares! :-)

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installed mythbuntu/mythtv, every little thing operates none

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Tiny, quiet. Utilizing for little ones computer system. XP installed without having troubles from using an internal drive hooked up as an external working with converter. I can't look to get BartPE to bootup to clone like XP...That has blue screened on me...may well be a driver factor...checking into it. May possibly buy one more.

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Wanting to decide to buy a single but skeptical right after reading testimonials. Wireless N hangs. I know every person says that the wireless is JUNK for signal strength but if anybody wants to attempt this suggestion and see if it resolves the hang problem and get back to me. I had an Acer 1 eight.9" Netbook with Windows 7 Ultimate on it and it's wireless would hang all the time. Right after reading blogs I discovered that below it's properties in DM I could disable the power saver solution and that stopped the hanging of the wireless. Let me know if this assists.

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Video: Playing Blu-Ray movies with TotalMedia Theatre three on 1080p was flawless. Image came out smooth and sharp. My Onkyo decoded DTS and Doby Digital just fine. Not sure if it'll do DTS-HD Master however, didn't get a likelihood to attempt. Netflix HD streamed beautifully but Hulu came out choppy on 480p even right after Flash ten.1 update. Audio: Following installing the Nvidia HD Audio drivers, I was able to configure the audio properties (Control Panel, hardware & sound, adjust audio devices). It allowed for Stereo / five.1 / 7.1 channel setup. I installed iTunes and used HomeSharing to copy my music collection from my primary Computer. I then employed the 'Remote' iPhone application to handle what's playing. The sound came out clean and crisp, loving it!The Zotac MAG: Beautifully made, little footprint, and not as loud as I feared. Looks very good both horizontally or vertically placed. Wireless Network: Like every person else talked about, the wireless on this thing isn't very very good. The reception is about 70% of my other computers. I was nonetheless in a position to connect to my WIFI at "good" signal top quality ƒ or 3 bars, 150mbps). My setup: Zotac MAG / Vista Ultimate 32bits (which I hate) / USB two. Blu-Ray Drive / TotalMedia Theatre 3 Platinum / AZiO BTD-V201 + Bluetooth wireless Keyboard / Onkyo TX-SR507 Receiver / Sony V-Series 52" LCDTV / Klipsch Quintet III / Power Sub.

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Very same pros. Super little, incredibly quiet, lots of ports to let for unique possibilities. Runs 1080p devoid of concern, so Netflix on the internet and Hulu don't even make it break a sweat. Wireless. Initially I said there had been no problems for me with this. Nevertheless, I am beginning to experience troubles exactly where wireless connectivity is either incredibly slow or it drops connections. It has a strong signal, this is not the problem. It just stops functioning from time to time (newest bios, newest drivers, and power saving mode is turned off on both the method and the wifi card). So this is not cool. Also, each the moment in a while the system just appears to lag out. I'm not certain if this is mainly because the coprocessor does not have a driver for Windows 7 or if its anything else causing it. The install is clean and there are no other applications on it, not even virus protection (we only use it for Hulu, Netflix and DivX videos) so the technique is about as clean and totally free as achievable. I'm a small disappointed as there are comparable systems for a lot significantly less money. I paid more for the lifetime warranty which was changed from the on the net description and with these other concerns it is acquiring to exactly where I might just scrap it and send it back to NewEgg.