DisplayPorts gone wild
Zotac is plenty experienced in the mini PC movement, and if you can conceive it, they've probably already built it or have it on a roadmap. That also means that some of its offerings are niche products -- or niche within a niche, since not everyone cares about NUC-sized systems -- like the new Zbox MA760 that broke cover ahead of Computex.
The MA760 is unique to other mini PCs in that it wields a generous four DisplayPorts. That means you can connect up to four 4K displays with Eyefinity, though don't expect to game on any of them. The point of all those DisplayPorts is so that digital signage customers have plenty of flexibility for their display setups, whether it's a panoramic display or a 2 by 2 screening area.
Each Zbox MA760 is equipped with an AMD FX-7600 quad-core APU with Radeon R7 graphics, two SO-DIMM slots with support for up to 16GB of DDR3/DDR3L-1600 RAM, 802.11ac WI-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, two GbE LAN ports, 7.1 channel audio, a single 2.5-inch drive bay, 3-in-1 card reader / USB 3.0 combo, and four USB 3.0 ports (including the combo port).
The "Plus" model comes pre-configured with 4GB or RAM and a 500GB hard drive. Depending on what you want to use the MA760 for, my advice is to go with the barebones version and plop a solid state drive inside. I've tested previous models with hard drives and they present a clear bottleneck to overall performance.
No word yet on when the MA760 will be available or for how much.
From maximumpc
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