ZOTAC Launches ZBOX edge CI342 Mini-PC

[btarunr]

ZOTAC launched the ZBOX edge CI342, a compact fanless mini-PC powered by an Intel Pentium N6415 "Elkhart Lake" quad-core processor clocked at speeds of up to 3.00 GHz. The ZBOX measures just 147.2 mm x 147.2 mm x 32.1 mm (WxDxH), with a passive cooling solution for the SoC that has a TDP of just 6.5 W. It offers an impressive set of connectivity options, which include DisplayPort 1.2 and HDMI 2.0b making up the display outputs; three 5 Gbps USB 3.1 ports that include a type-C, a microSD card reader, two 1 GbE wired LAN interfaces, and Wi-Fi 6E + Bluetooth 5.2 WLAN. It's still being sold as a "barebones," meaning that you add your own RAM and storage. Memory options include two DDR4 SODIMM slots (dual-channel), and the only storage interface is an M.2-2280 slot with PCI-Express 3.0 x2 wiring. ZOTAC is also offering a non-barebones complete prebuilt with Windows 11, which includes one 4 GB DDR4-3200 SODIMM stick, and a 128 GB NVMe SSD.



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[bonehead123]

A nice lookin little mini-me box, but somewhat outdated specs and features....

Hopefully its low priced....otherwise its gonna be DOA

 

[sswilson]

If it's inexpensive enough it should make a pretty decent PFSense/Opnsense router. (2X Nic being the main requirement).

 

[lexluthermiester]

A nice lookin little mini-me box, but somewhat outdated specs and features....

Boxes like this don't need to be bleeding-edge to do what they're intended to, which is general purpose computing, video/audio playback and a bit of very light gaming..