http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/ Engadget Comments for Dell's Inspiron Zino HD on sale now in America: starts at $229, doubles as an HTPC http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/
"Mac Mini? Not at all. This supports double the memory and an HDMI port. The Mac Mini doesn't even have the option for BluRay or a native TV Tuner."

That's because its' a computer and a not a cable box. The CPU/GUP on this thing does not max the Mac mini. Nice colors tho. haha ]]>Nov 13th 2009 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/Nov 12th 2009 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/]]>Nov 12th 2009 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/Nov 12th 2009 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/ Mini.]]>Nov 12th 2009 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/
I'm sure you just wanted to get your little rant/whine into a higher area in the comments - but you're preaching to the wrong person. I don't care and haven't argued one way or the other. Personally, I have no use for either one. I just find it hilarious that so many people argue about something so ridiculous.

Oh, wait, it's the internet - that's why.]]>Nov 12th 2009 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/Nov 12th 2009 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/Nov 12th 2009 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/Nov 12th 2009 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/
Have you witnessed any of the other Zino threads here on Engadget? Have you read through them? They have ALL been "this looks like a mac mini" or "dell made a mac mini!" etc.]]>Nov 12th 2009 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/Nov 12th 2009 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/Nov 12th 2009 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/
http://www.rgbfilter.com/?p=1652

But I'd consider retiring (or moving) the ASRock for the Zino HD once they add the TV tuner and IR support out of the box. Keeping the base memory at 3GB, bumping up the processor to the Dual Core 3250e 1.5 GHz, adding the Radeon 4330 512MB graphics card and a BD/DVD combo drive prices this thing out at $604, which is a REALLY good deal, especially since the ASRock doesn't come with an OS out of the box.

The 3250e is a pretty stable overclocker too, and even at stock performs better than the Dual Core Atom 330. Seriously not a bad deal at all for any number of SFF uses.]]>Nov 12th 2009 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/Nov 12th 2009 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/Nov 12th 2009 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/Nov 12th 2009 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/Nov 12th 2009 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/Nov 12th 2009 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/
I guess you've never really used a real media center. :)]]>Nov 12th 2009 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/
I didn't say it compared, but Andrea said "Media Center features are like... nonexistent" which is a blatant troll.]]>Nov 12th 2009 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/Nov 12th 2009 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/2.1 sound card on an HTPC is a bit crap if you ask me. Gimme 5.1 or don't bother pretending this is a media centre solution.]]>Nov 12th 2009 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/Nov 12th 2009 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/Nov 12th 2009 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/Nov 12th 2009 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/Nov 12th 2009 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/Nov 12th 2009 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/Nov 12th 2009 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/Nov 12th 2009 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/Nov 12th 2009 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/
The HD 3200 was the first onboard graphics card that allows the fluent playback of Blu-ray videos.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/ATI-Radeon-HD-3200.9591.0.html]]>Nov 12th 2009 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/-8X DVD+/-RW Drive]]>Nov 12th 2009 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/Nov 12th 2009 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/
Athlon Dual core CPU performance that gets you about 75% of the speed (the Athlon outperforms the dual core Atom 330, but won't compare to a full blown Intel Core 2 Duos)
Radeon 4330 which outperforms the Mini's Nvidia 9400M by between about 30 and 80% depending on task
Double the hard drive space of the Mini
3GB memory on the Zino instead of 2GB on the Mini (the Mini uses 1066MHz though, instead of the 800MHz Zino)

Depending on what you want to use it for, it's a trade off. You'll get better raw CPU performance out of the Mini, but in every other respect, a Zino HD beats it. If you were planning on using Windows, then the Zino HD is a good deal overall, especially if you're a Blu Ray fan, or want to build a media PC and were previously thinking of something like the ASRock or the latest Revo.

Though the Zino really is a 'nettop' computer at its core, a few upgrades really gives it some oomph that Acer and ASRock haven't matched, at the same price as the ION 330 with Blu Ray.

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http://www.dell.com/us/en/home/desktops/inspiron-zino-hd/pd.aspx?refid=inspiron-zino-hd&s=dhs&cs=19&~oid=us~en~29~inspiron-zino-hd-anav1~~

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This Inspiron Zino is too low end.]]>Nov 12th 2009 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/Nov 12th 2009 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=ddcwua1&c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&kc=inspiron-zino-hd]]>Nov 12th 2009 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/dells-inspiron-zino-hd-on-sale-now-in-america-starts-at-229/
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