Dell has announced a cute'n'colourful small form factor PC, or full-featured nettop, or mini desktop (whichever you'd rather) the Inspiron Zino HD.

A Mac Mini rival from the world of Windows, if you will, the Zino HD offers space-saving measurements of 7.8-inches by 7.8-inches by 3.4-inches.

It's personalisable with 10 optional interchangeable colours and designs and offers a range of AMD Athlon processors, ATI Mobility Radeon graphics, up to 1TB hard disk and up to 8GB RAM.

Features include four USB ports, a headphone connector, a four-in-one-memory card reader, Wi-Fi, VGA, eSATA and HDMI connectors - the latter of which in conjunction with the optional Blu-ray drive will turn the little device into a teeny HD home cinema kit.

Offered with Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Ubuntu Linux 9.04 Dell is offering three options from the get go - a basic ?299 model (the cheapest Mac Mini is ?499), a ?531 effort that comes with a monitor and a ?744 option with bells and whistles.

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Dell Zino HD mini desktop PC launches in the UK originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:42:25 +0000

Acer's Ferrari One?laptop is expected to be hitting the US in January Pocket-lint has learnt, however it is unlikely to ship with the external graphics card designed by AMD that would give it the power of a desktop PC.

Already available in the UK, the new laptop features a PCI Express card slot that will allow users to connect an External Graphics Port to boost graphics performance over and above the power of the mini notebook.

According to AMD, the ATI XGP can run up to four displays when activated on the notebook PC and comes with HDMI with integrated audio, DVI and USB connections providing the ability to connect to a variety of devices.

However, while the technology is available (it features a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 graphics card), AMD has yet to find a manufacturer willing to launch the new product as a standalone accessory, even though Acer and Fujitsu-Siemens have added the port on some of their netbooks already.

According to an AMD spokesperson, the box of tricks will bring the power of a desktop computer to the netbook allowing gamers to play the latest games at home, while still having a portable, small and lightweight device on the road.

We will keep you posted.

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Acer Ferrari One gets US date, AMD XGP box no where to be seen... originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:16:47 +0000