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Zotac ZBox Nano AD10 Plus Review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell August 31, 2011 Announcements, PC

CyberLink MediaEspresso 6 is the successor to CyberLink MediaShow Espresso 5.5. With its further optimized CPU/GPU-acceleration, MediaEspresso is an even faster way to convert not only your video but also your music and image files between a wide range of popular formats.

Now you can easily playback and display your favourite movies, songs and photos not just on your on your mobile phone, iPad, PSP, Xbox, or Youtube and Facebook channels but also on the newly launched iPhone 4. Compile, convert and enjoy images and songs on any of your computing devices and enhance your videos with CyberLink’s built-in TrueTheater Technology.

New and Improved Features

  • Ultra Fast Media Conversion – With support from the Intel Core i-Series processor family, ATI Stream & NVIDIA CUDA, MediaEspresso’s Batch-Conversion function enables multiple files to be transcoded simultaneously.
  • Smart Detect Technology – MediaEspresso 6 automatically detects the type of portable device connected to the PC and selects the best multimedia profile to begin the conversion without the need for user’s intervention.
  • Direct Sync to Portable Devices – Video, audio and image files can be transferred in a few easy steps to mobile phones including those from Acer, BlackBerry, HTC, Samsung, LG, Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and Palm, as well as Sony Walkman and PSP devices.
  • Enhanced Video Quality – CyberLink TrueTheater Denoise and Lighting enables the enhancement of video quality through optical noise filters and automatic brightness adjustment.
  • Video, Music and Image File Conversion – Convert not only videos to popular formats such as AVI, MPEG, MKV, H.264/AVC, and FLV at the click of a button, but also images such as JPEG and PNG and music files like WMA, MP3 and M4A.
  • Online Sharing – Conversion to video formats used by popular social networking websites and a direct upload feature means posting videos to Facebook and YouTube has never been easier.

For our testing today we are converting a 3.3GB 720p MKV file (2h:12mins) to Apple Mp4 format for playback on a portable device. This is a common procedure for many people and will give a good indication of system power. We are focusing on the CPU efficiency with this test. The latest version of this program has some optimisations for the newest hardware.

A final time of 1 hour 6 minutes and 52 seconds is around 4 minutes faster than the Atom D525 system. Due to the slow hard drive speeds however we have recorded faster results from the AMD E350 APU, over 3 minutes faster in fact from the Foxconn NT-A3500 Net Top system.

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14 comments

  1. Brooke
    August 31, 2011 at 2:11 pm

    Wow that is tiny, smallest computer ive seen.

  2. Stephen
    August 31, 2011 at 2:32 pm

    I have the same hard drive in my dell laptop and its dire. Apart from that this looks like a nice system. Small too.

    Id change the hdd but not much else

  3. Derek
    August 31, 2011 at 2:34 pm

    The green top is wicked, is that an led?

    Great looking media system. Well constructed

  4. Pete
    August 31, 2011 at 2:35 pm

    Shame it isnt a tiny bit bigger and had a bluray drive. Bit i pose it would cost 400 then

  5. Lucas
    August 31, 2011 at 2:37 pm

    They should do one in black and green

  6. Young
    September 1, 2011 at 9:24 am

    I am ordering one as I love the fact this has displayport ! I will replace the drive and use it as an external storage unit. great review thanks.

  7. Josh
    September 1, 2011 at 9:25 am

    really pretty little nettop system, I love the appearance and loads of ports. including displayport and HDMI.

    Shame they dropped the ball a little with the hard drive, but its easy replaced and I like the fact you can put your own OS on it too

  8. Jambe
    September 2, 2011 at 1:38 am

    Or you could just buy the barebones one and get the RAM and drive yourself.

    Thorough review!

  9. Diego
    September 4, 2011 at 5:18 am

    do you think it will be able to run Pro Evolution Soccer 2011/2012 with an acceptable fps?

    I’ve seen it run on a core i3 (before sandybridge) cpu + intel hd graphics and for me it works pretty well! (720p)

  10. gurugraptor
    September 6, 2011 at 4:28 pm

    Lower RPM drive is to keep the box cool. A higher RPM Drive may cause heat issues.

  11. Slim
    September 7, 2011 at 3:54 pm

    Wonder if the remote will work with Linux

  12. Nintendork
    September 9, 2011 at 8:17 am

    Diego
    HD6310 destroy i3 graphic by a 3x factor.

  13. francois
    December 3, 2011 at 2:57 pm

    hello, i have problem during catalyst 11.11 on my AD10-Win7 Pro 64b and a black screen instead of the gina after each reboot. did you test catalyst 11.11 on a W7 Pro 64b ?
    Thank you

  14. ibot roomba
    November 1, 2012 at 9:00 am

    Thank you, I’ve just been looking for info about this topic for a while and yours is the greatest I’ve came upon so far.

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