Dell may be focusing the bulk of its attention on the white-hot
Adamo XPS, but it looks as if its attempting to slide the Zino HD into the wild without anyone noticing. If you'll recall, we snagged
a little hands-on time with the box back in August, and now we've reason to believe that an official reveal is just moments away. The Zino HD is now listed on Dell's main "Desktops" portal (a screen cap is after the break), though the accompanying link leads to nowhere. However, one vigilant tipster managed to find a backdoor URL that allows you to configure and order your own Inspiron 400 (its "
other name," just so you know) right now. We're seeing the machine available in a slew of colors ($10 to $30 options over black), a 1.5GHz AMD Athlon 3250e or 1.8GHz Athlon 6850e CPU, Windows 7 Home Premium, 4GB of DDR2 RAM, a 500GB (7200RPM) hard drive, 8x DVD burner, a 512MB ATI Radeon HD 4330 GPU, bundled keyboard / mouse and a 20-inch
ST2010 LCD thrown in for good measure. The total package described above looks to start at around $807 with a November 27th ship date, though we suspect cheaper models will be available once things get ironed out.
[Thanks, Chuck and Douglas]
Read - Dell's desktop page
Read - Zino HD order page
posted November 7th 2009 1:00PM
Documentation page is up
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/insp400/en/cs/index.htm
This thing looks great but way too expensive with the bundle. I wish they allowed you to buy it without the monitor. Then maybe I'd think about it. (I'd also love a version without an operating system, but I know that's a bit much to ask)