At first sight it is the perfect solution for a home or home-office environment, and also works nicely as an entertainment centre. I added to this device a 250GB-7200RPM hard disk for $50 and 4GB RAM for another $30 (it was a little cheaper than other ZBOX that came with same hard disk and 1GB RAM).
Installing the hard disk and the memory was as easy as removing three screws by hand, placing the devices and put the screws back (no more than 5 minutes, taking into account that you took 2 minutes admiring such a tiny thing that has everything well placed and secured)
Installing an operating system is not a problem, it detects external CD/DVD drive through USB or eSata Ports, I used an USB stick with a Linux Live Image of UBUNTU (this is not a review of linux, but I can tell that there is some difficulties installing the wireless card, have to use ndiswrapper).
I know that the start-up times and shut-down times are OS-dependent matters but I really like the 15 second start-up and the 10 second shut-down times that I got from UBUNTU.
Limited graphics designed for a netbook, not a desktop, (What's this?) Let me start with the good. The Zotac is a neat little box, and installing the hard drive and memory is wonderfully easy. Two thumb screws open the case, and one more thumb screw holds the drive in place, which has to be one of the nicest 2.5" SATA drive mounts I've seen. Memory snaps in quick and easy. The box looks nice, and has plenty of options for mounting, either flat, standing up, or attached to a monitor (or wall) using the included bracket. All of that is really slick, and is what it shares with the Zbox ID41 that I purchased for myself previously.
This time around, I purchased the ID12 because I didn't need the extra cost or power of the Ion graphics. I was planning on setting this system up with a linux OS, running a simple application. I had previously installed the same linux system (Fedora 15) and run the same application on an older Asus running the 1.6GHz Atom chip, so with the dual core 1.8GHz chip and more memory, I knew this system would have far more power than it needed.
What I didn't expect was the great difficulty I would run into getting the system installed and running properly, which all came down to the on-chip GMA-3150 graphics.
Intel HyperThreading technology, Intel ClearVideo (SD) technology, Microsoft DirectX 9 compatible, OpenGL 1.5 compatible, Energy-efficient computing.HDMI (720p), HDCP compliant, VGA.Intel Atom D525 CPU (1.8GHz, dual-core), Intel NM10 Express chipset, Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3150 GPU.1 2.5-inch SATA 3.0 Gb/s hard drive connection, 2 204-pin DDR3-800 SO-DIMM slots.6-in-1 Memory card reader (MMC/SD/SDHC/MS/MS Pro/xD), 5 USB 2.0 port, 10/100/1000 Ethernet (RJ45), Digital S/PDIF output,. Take the first step to living green with the energy-efficient ZOTAC ZBOXSD-ID12 mini-PC powered by Intel Atom technology combined with Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3150 graphics. The ZOTAC ZBOX SD-ID12 mini-PC delivers phenomenal performance and compatibility for a full Microsoft Windows 7 experience with Aero user interface while maintaining best-in-class energy-efficiency. The ZOTAC ZBOX SD-ID12 mini-PC is easy to master with only two thumb screws in place to unlock the internal expansion capabilities. Inside the ZOTAC ZBOX SD-ID12 mini-PC is space for a 2.5-inch SATA hard drive and 204-pin DDR3 DIMM module while USB 2.0, eSATA and a6-in-1 memory card reader (SD/SDHC/MS/MS Pro/xD/MMC) provide external expansion.
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