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 Nov 7th 2009 1:00PM
Kirfy name. Anyway with a 4330 I'm sure it can play the game you just lost.
I just lost the game, I hate you.
Did we really need to bring the game into this? I thought that was eradicated from the earth 2 years ago.
Too expensive for what it is.
Agreed. My only interest in this would be as a living room TV. But not at $859!?!
The Inspiron 300 makes even less sense. VGA but no HDMI or DVI? What year is this?
What a silly price. The ASrock 330 kicks its ass by being waaay cheaper, having better graphics and I bet it even has a lower power consumption. I'm not sure about the atom 330 being better but its working like magic for me :)
1. It's not even officially up yet. The main page even asks you to call for the latest price.
2. Price includes a 20" screen worth about $120. Also includes keyboard and mouse.
3. Why are you comparing this to an Atom?
If its for a "TV side application" which for me means handling things like Hulu streaming, then an Atom 330 with an Ion will EVENTUALLY be able to handle this, once Adobe gets their GPU support update out. In THEORY this will happen in the first quarter next year. I'll probably just sit on my hands until then, using a laptop as needed to fill the gap until then.
If you have to buy something now, I'd buy a Dell Studio Hybrid before this. It can handle Hulu/Youtube in HD full screen at 720p, is smaller, MUCH cheaper at $499 (sure it has less RAM and less storage but I don't need more of either of those).
Yeah. I saw this and thought it would make a cool media center computer for a living room but my price range for something like that would be under $500, preferably more in the 300 range.
Since when do they make the Mac Mini in black? With a Dell logo on it no less?
Dell rips everything off. Even since the dawn of time.
Yeah, how dare Dell steal the small square PC design from Apple after Apple stole it from Shuttle fair and square.
@Shuttle: You must be confusing the Shuttle with the Apple Cube.
Did you forget Job's Next computer from 1985?
Woah I thought the title said Zune HD. Haha..
pretty funny considering the next story down is about the zune hd
The bundled OS kills this deal.
Which AMD processor are those? Are they dual-core? God, I hate AMD's processor names, it's so confusing.
They are Athlon 64 X2s, so they are dual-core. Although I don't understand why Dell would use outdated (yet powerful) processors in a recent dekstop.
It's all about price. I do think myself that the Intel processors are a better choice. even a E7500 at 2.9 G would kick the AMD choices. The graphic options look much better though.
AMD....ewwwww hell no.
What are you talking about? AMD processors are unbeatable in the sub-120 dollar range. Granted, they are far from having the performance crown, but this system isnt about hardcore performance.
And Dell continues along the "Apple tax" path while not being Apple.
i think this got mixed up somehow... it looks like its actually the order form for the insperon 400
DellZinoHD.com
Somethings up with the site. Some of the color selections just show a normal tower, not the Zino, and a compatibility alert shows that it has a conflict with the video card. I wonder if this was put up in error.
Yes, those aren't actual prices for the Zino, those are the prices for the Inspiron desktop. The site is still being updated and you can't actually place an order for a Zino yet. Engadget jumped the gun a bit on this one.
Or the guy who operates the website is lazy and made slapdaah work of the Zino HD order page... or its am upload error
The borked order page is gone, as is any reference to the Zino from the main Desktop page. Clearly this was a mistake.
this needs nvidia graphics (in hopes of the flash 11 update with gpu accelerated flash), no monitor, and no OS option to keep the price down to be considered an htpc candidate. i'd also prefer a core 2 duo, because i don't know much about that athlon. right now an acer revo is a better htpc, and even that comes with windows 7 for only $380.
Does anyone else keep seeing Zune HD every time they see this
Have you ever considered buying a pair of glasses?
Uh, most of the other colour names I can live with, but... "Promise Pink"?!
its because they donate money to a breast cancer thing if you order that color.
bastard.
I like the overall specs well enough but I'd like an OS delete option or to get Ubuntu preinstalled. This thing just screams Ubuntu + XBMC/Boxee to me. Yeah sure it's more expensive than an Atom box but until Adobe gets off their butt and fixes Flash, this thing will likely run Flash-based video without a hiccup. Even after they fix it... it'll still run Flash better than the Atom more than likely or you'll have a few more processor cycles to work with.
What I'd really like to see is a Cablecard equipped video card option (not sure that there'd be enough room on the back of the unit though :\ ) + MCE remote as part of the options too. For those that use Win 7 they'd obviously love to be able to slap one of these in their home entertainment rig as an HTPC and having the ability to DVR vids from terrestial cable would be nice. It also could be just the candle to light under open source developers to really integrate MythTV better into XBMC or Boxee (my preference).
When it gets to $400 let me know
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=ddcwua1&cs=19&dgvcode=ss&c=US&l=EN&dgc=SS&cid=27399&lid=627062
Seems like it's been pulled from the US site, confirm/deny?
Nevermind, I apparently can't read; the backdoor link works fine.
over 800 bones? hell people would be giving Apple shit if their Mac Minis started in the 800s. This looks much more cheapily made at that
At least it has HDMI.
A thirty dollar adapter from Home Depot can fix that
Not if you want audio over HDMI. Also, $800 price was clearly a mistake, as was the whole messed up order page. It's been taken down, and I expect a much more reasonable price when it goes up for real.
includes audio. is Mini-DP to HDMI. a whopping $37. really breaks the bank.
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10428&cs_id=1042802&p_id=5969&seq=1&format=2
It starts at $249 as is. Nice deal.
For $249 you get:
Piano Black edit
PROCESSOR AMD Athlon 2650e
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic SP1, 32-Bit edit ($30 extra for Win 7 Home Premium)
WARRANTY AND SERVICE 1 Yr Ltd Hardware Warranty, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis - Important Information
MEMORY 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz- 2 DIMM
HARD DRIVE 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™
OPTICAL DRIVE 8X DVD+/-RW Drive
VIDEO CARD Informational Graphic Card
KEYBOARD Dell USB Keyboard
MOUSE Dell USB Optical Mouse
linky dead
yep, all gone
Yeah, a search of the site shows no Zino HD.
dell is great
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)