ZOTAC announces E-series ZBOX sporting Intel Iris Pro graphics and ZBOX nano AQ02

ZOTAC has introduced a new line to its ZBOX series of mini PCs - called the ZOTAC ZBOX E-series on the opening day of CeBIT in Germany. This line-up will include Haswell processors and is targetted at those looking to game on their mini PCs as well. The two ZBOX’s - E1750 and E1730 - will both include Intel’s Iris Pro 5200 integrated graphics solution. The other mini PC ZOTAC has anonunced its the ZBOX nano AQ02 which comes with an AMD A8 APU.   [caption id=“attachment_219748” align=“aligncenter” width=“640”]  ZOTAC ZBOX E1730 Plus model includes 8DDR3 RAM and 1TB HDD[/caption]   “We’ve always wanted to create a ZBOX that delivers a good gaming experience but couldn’t strike the right balance between size, performance, heat dissipation and energy consumption. Intel’s latest Haswell architecture with quad-cores and Iris Pro 5200 graphics hits that sweet spot we need to fit in a ZBOX chassis,” said Carsten Berger, senior director, ZOTAC International. “The new ZBOX E-series will deliver a smooth medium quality gaming experience and be perfect for LAN party-goers and gamers that want a compact gaming system.”   [caption id=“attachment_219750” align=“aligncenter” width=“606”]  ZOTAC ZBOX E1750 Plus comes with the high end Intel Core i7-4770R processor[/caption]   The main difference between the E1750 and E1730 is that the former will come with an Intel Core i7-4770R having hyper-threading, whereas the latter will come with an Intel Core i5-4570R which will not have hyper-threading. Other specifications are as follows.        The ZBOX nano AQ02 PLUS will come with AMD A8-5545M which is a quad-core APU clocked at 1.7GHz with a Turbo clock of 2.7GHz with an AMD Radeon HD 8510G graphics solution, 4GB DDR3 RAM, 500GB HDD, DisplayPort and HDMI display ports, 4x USB 3.0 ports, 802.11ac Wi-fi and Bluetooth 4.0.   [caption id=“attachment_219751” align=“aligncenter” width=“630”]  ZOTAC ZBOX nano AQ02 Plus comes with AMD A8 APU alongwith 4GB DDR3 RAM and 500GB HDD[/caption]   The Indian pricing is not out yet, but all these ZBOX’s will soon start selling from this month onwards.