News: Dell Zino HD makes its way to SA shores

Tarsus Technologies has announced the local availability of Dell’s Zino HD mini-desktop, a diminutive 203 mm x 203 mm square computer designed for media consumption.

“Apart from a choice of colourful chassis, users can choose from a variety of AMD Athlon Dual-Core processors, between 2 GB and 8 GB of RAM and between 160 GB and 1 TB of storage,” says Brett Bygate, Dell product manager at Tarsus.

“Add to this a DVD-RW drive, a built-in media card reader, 5.1 surround sound, wired and wireless networking, and an ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics card that offers both a VGA and HDMI output and it’s clear that this little machine is in its element in a home theatre environment,” he says.

Unlike many of the computers in this category, which tend to be rather static in their configuration, Bygate says the Zino HD is upgradeable in a number of ways.

“For starters,” he continues, “if the embedded Radeon HD 3200 graphics card isn’t sufficiently powerful, users can add a discrete graphics card to the machine through a single PCI-Express 16 slot.

“Additional storage can also be added to the Zino HD by attaching an external hard disk to the two eSATA or USB 2.0 ports available on the rear of the machine.

“If a hard disk is connected to one of the eSATA ports, however, no performance degradation is experienced. The drive will operate at the same performance level as if it was connected to the Zino HD internally,” Bygate explains.

“Small, good looking and feature-rich, Tarsus believes the Zino HD is well placed to embrace the need for digital audio, video and computing gaming being expressed by modern households,” he says.

“We believe it will be very successful over the coming months,” Bygate concludes.

No pricing details have yet been given.

Dell Zino HD makes its way to SA shores

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