Zotac would be a familiar name if you’re constantly hunting for your perfect small system as your HTPC. They don’t make perfect products, but their products are always rather interesting to say the least, as Zotac is such a company that always strive to give the best product that your greens can get. They’re no Mac Mini when it comes to form factor, but their latest Zboxes do seem like a good contender to those like Shuttle, and Asus Eeebox.

Their latest offering is of kush Ion-ed by Nvidia, with the new Ion chipset married to Intel’s CULV CPUs, making them a power saving machine that can push out some decent Full-HD movies for your huge LCD TV in your living room. All of the packages are loaded with some variation of Intel’s Celeron processors. The HD series (the NS21 and ND22) pack a Celeron 743 or SU2300 CULV (respectively), DDR3 RAM slots, a 2.5-inch hard drive slot, HDMI and DVI-I ports, along with NVIDIA’s Ion GPU. There’s also an ITX series, all sporting those same CPUs, a single PCI Express x16 slot, a handful of SATA / eSATA hookups, and HDMI, DVI-D, and VGA connections. All the systems have a slew of USB ports, the boxes can be mounted in four different positions (including on the back of a monitor), and though retail pricing hasn’t been announced, it looks like at least the ND22 should list for around $270.

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