Damn you, Dell. I was looking for an excuse to buy a Mac Mini and you had to give me something better and cheaper. :) - Roberto Bonini from Bookmarklet

Is this a replacement for their Studio Hybrid? Because that was already out and better/more value than a Mac Mini - Scoble, Alex Scoble

No idea. But If i can connect a Tv tuner to the thing, its the next HTPC I'm buying. - Roberto Bonini

Looks interesting. Not available in the US yet? - Victor Ganata

Sounds like Dell is doing a phased roll out.... so should be live in the US soon. - Roberto Bonini

Yeah, the Dell Studio Hybrid is better...at least it has a better choice of CPUs. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Well, the Zino has HDMI and a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3200 in the base config, which by the accounts I've read seems capable of smooth 1080p playback... - Ken Sheppardson

The Studio Hybrid also has HDMI and can get up to a 2.6ghz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU. But I think it uses an Intel graphics processor. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

How fast does your processor even have to be to record live video??? I have a 2.8Ghz CPU that records 2 live feeds using less than 10% CPU. - Roberto Bonini

Recording a digital signal? That's just streaming data to the drive, right? That's no different than downloading a torrent or something. Isn't the taxing part rendering that stream into the signal to sent to the monitor at high resolution, with little artifacting, no stuttering, etc? - Ken Sheppardson

Yeah, something like that Ken. So. CPU isn't the biggest issue. Specially if thats the only thing its going to be doing. - Roberto Bonini

BTW, the roadblock for me now is that I just want a little box with two coax inputs, a USB port for output into this sorta thing, and a DirecTV HD label on it... sigh... - Ken Sheppardson

i wonder if you can open up the case and put stuff in?? - Roberto Bonini

Seriously???? - Roberto Bonini from iPhone

@Roberto Bonini: Did the US dollar collapse? Assuming similar memory and hard drive, the Zino HD with an AMD X2 1.8GHz processor cost just slightly less than a 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac mini. - Khürt Williams

Here in the Uk the mac mini goes for £499 the Zino goes for £299. - Roberto Bonini from iPhone

You thinks it's fair to compare a 1.8GHz low end AMD cpu to a 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo? - Khürt Williams

It's not, but I'm not looking for all that power. I'd rather save the money. - Roberto Bonini from iPhone

100+ of these in a cluster would be interesting. - Ken Sheppardson