Sapphire EDGE HD and Zotac ZBOX ID41 / AD02
Who does not know the nights when you just kills the time in the network. Man chats up into the night with friends, reads the current favorite threads and see one or the other new video on YouTube, or one of the many platforms. This can begrudge his ears, the latest album of your favorite artist. For these light activities is used in most cases a completely provisioned PC.
Introduction:
Even in the notebook sector, it was believed that one for the normal things of life needs no high-end device. Sun Netbooks with relatively little equipment are enormously popular. This trend is now also increasingly in the desktop area catchment. The goal of the devices is simple. They want to do those activities satisfying the deal, to be honest, a high percentage of home PCs. For these activities mean no high-end four-or even six cores need in the PC, for these tasks is not an expensive graphics card are essential.
For this reason, we now take a look at the two current platforms, such as those found in most current mini-PCs. There is for a successful atomic series from Intel, which now receives strong support from the much more potent ION 2 graphics from Nvidia. On the other penetrates even AMD's new Fusion technology an ever more in this segment, which combines CPU and GPU on one chip.
So we now have two systems with Intel Atom / ION 2 combination and a new AMD Fusion system in the test, representing that segment. More specifically, it consists of two models of ZBOX Zotac, PNY ZBOX the ID41 and AD02. Third, fits the tiny mini-PC system Sapphire HD EDGE in the test.