It has Bing x64 pre-installed as well as extra language packs compared to the usual

Aug 8, 2014 12:35 GMT  ·  By

Zotac has introduced many miniature computers over the years, so it stands to reason that it would do so again by this point. After all, it seems to do it at least once per quarter. The newest one is more of an update than anything else though.

Then again, that could be said about most of Zotac's mini PCs of the past few years. After all, they all bear the ZBOX brand and tend to stick to the same, small, compact case.

Then again, the chassis of the new Zotac ZBOX Plus mini-PC seems to be different from most of the others, given the perforated top and sides, shaped like honeycombs. The chassis is clearly meant to double as a cooler. A heatsink.

There are actually four new ZBOX Plus mini-PCs in the new collection, but all of them run Windows 8.1 and have Bing x64 pre-installed. In other words, they have Windows 8 with Bing.

It's actually not such a big deal. Bing is Microsoft's own search engine, and the new version of windows has it set as default in Internet Explorer.

The more relevant traits here are the 2 GB of DDR3 RAM (random access memory) and solid state drives with a capacity of 64 GB each.

Also, you may be interested in knowing that the OS on the systems has some power packs that were previously not included, at least not by default: English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Japanese, and Korean.

The offers do vary by region though, meaning that you probably won't get Korean and Japanese if you buy the thing in, say, France. Kind of odd to keep languages back this way really, knowing that they're always on Windows 7 and previous-generation disks.

Then again, if your preferred language pack isn't there, you can always download it from Microsoft's website, so it's not a restriction at all in the end.

That said, what sets the PCs apart from each other is, primarily, the CPU: the ZBOX CI320 uses a quad-core Intel Celeron N2930, the ZBOX CA320 nano gets a quad-core AMD A6-1450 APU, the ZBOX BI320 a Celeron 2957U dual-core (1.4 GHz), and the ZBOX ID18 a Celeron 1037U dual-core (1.8 GHz).

The full specs are outlined in the table below. You can see that the video outputs differ as well, somewhat, as do the I/O capabilities. We're still waiting for the prices.

Zotac ZBOX Plus with Bing
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