 Welcome to my unboxing of something that's actually pretty cool. This is the Zotac Zbox 804 Plus. So it's got their usual chassis, but there's some aspects of this particular little mini PC that are not very usual at all. It comes with Bluetooth gigabit LAN, 802.11n, so that is n wireless, a remote control and a base mount. The configuration that I've got here has a 320 gig hard drive and 2 gigs of memory, although you can buy it as a bare bones, which doesn't come with a hard drive or RAM, obviously at a cheaper price, and you can put in whatever you want. So you can build yourself a very silent, very high performance, and more on that later, mini PC for a very reasonable budget. It also doesn't come with an operating system, so you're free to choose your own, whether you want to go with Windows 7 Home Premium Professional or whatever else the case may be, they don't lock you in that way, or force you to buy a more expensive premium SKU in order to get a better operating system, so that's something that's really convenient. Let's have a look at the overall specs first. So this uses the AMD E450 APU, which has 2 cores running at 1.65 GHz, as well as an AMD 6000 Series 6320 graphics core built into the APU itself. So an APU is kind of like a CPU and a GPU on one die. Moving on, we've got 2 gigs of memory included. There are 2 sodium slots available. It supports 1, 2.5 inch hard drive or SSD, with the 320 gig drive included. Anything without plus in the part number is a bare bones, just so you guys know. Gigabit LAN, 802.1.1n, Bluetooth 3.0, it has an SDHC slot that also supports memory stick, if you actually still use that. Onboard 8 channel digital audio is output via HDMI, or optical SPDIF. Okay, I.O., dimensions, we'll get into that later. Cool, there's a QR code. We'll talk about that after. And since we're going to open this thing, none of this is very relevant. So let's get this baby opened up. I don't know if you guys remember, but I did a full NCIX Tech Tips episode on one of Zotac's mini PCs, which was just beastly. The thing was running some serious high bit rate MKVs using XBMC. Very very robust little system. Bunch of pieces here. You know what, I'm going to actually open these up off camera. So here we are. One thing that we do have to do is install the batteries in the remote, which is a fairly simple process, as you guys can see. Here I am doing it now. I'm doing it. I'm doing it now. You know, the guys on the local radio station, Team 1040, the sports radio station, are just, they're doing like this thing. It's like a March Madness themed, like a basketball themed thing, where they're taking iconic TV characters and then they have like brackets where they come down down down to a finals and then they're going to have someone win and they're having the listeners vote. And they're like floored every time Basil Fawlty wins a bracket because apparently none of them understand the humor of Fawlty Towers, which just irked me this morning because they were like, oh it's some British show, there were only 12 episodes. Yes, 12 episodes of the purest comedy gold that ever existed. Anyway, moving on. Here is the media center remote that is included. It has all of your usual suspects in terms of programmable keys, numbers and mute buttons and navigation keys and all that good stuff. Next we have the included power cord, four included screws, more on those later, as well as the IR receiver. So the reason this comes on a really long cord that is more than one Linus arm span in length is because it can be easily positioned, like plugged into the Z-Box itself and then positioned somewhere discreet and convenient so that the remote will be able to hit it. And hit that thing. Okay, then we have an antenna and a little mounting piece here, which we'll do more on later, as well as a warranty terms thing. So in the, oh look at that, in the EU they get two years. I think that's by law. Everywhere else is one year. Driver installation DVD, user's manual, as well as a quick start guide. Now the unit itself. So remember guys, this is an E450. That means it is capable of DirectX 11 gaming in games like Dirt 3 for example, where they're not super, super demanding, but they are DirectX 11. So more on that in a moment here. Let's do the unit itself here. Very shiny. ERP ready, evidently. There's our cooling fan right there. Can you guys see that at all? There's a little aluminum heat sink under it. I don't know if you're going to be able to see that. That's okay. There's a cooling fan in there. You guys will have to take my word for it. We also have four rubber feet. So if you want to use it sitting down, you would put it this way. And as like a media PC box, that's probably how I would set it up. You can decide which way is the front. So there's an exhaust vent here with a front USB 2. On this side there's audio. So that's headphones, microphone, SD slot, USB 2, wireless LAN indicator, drive indicator, power button. Okay. So that's probably the front. Then moving on to this side, we've got a couple of screws. So that's to open up the chassis as well as more ventilation holes. And finally on this side, this is what I would consider to be the back. Yeah. Yeah. This is the back. So there's the wireless antenna, which we can plug in. If I can, oh, it's like spring loaded. Neat. Okay. There we go. Wireless antenna, USB 3, gigabit ethernet, two more USB 2, display port out. That's cool. That's a function of the AMD Radeon graphics on board. HDMI as well as optical audio out. And finally the power in. It also has a power indicator on the top. That orange ring does glow. But check this out. This is the kind of thing Zotac thought of. You can turn it off in the BIOS if you have it in a room where, for example, maybe it's a media PC and you don't want like disturbing random orange glows coming out of your PC. Turn it off. No problem. And then it just looks the way it does when it's powered off right now, other than a small glow from the power button. Yeah, that is USB 2. Sorry, I was just checking that guys. So okay, great. What other options do we have for mounting? So you guys saw this funky thing right here. That is so that you can mount it on the base station, which hopefully I can figure out how to do. There we go. Slide that into place. That is another way that you can configure it. Finally, and it comes with everything you need in the box, you can do it this way. Check this out. It comes with a VESA mount. So all you have to do is clip the unit in and I'll see if I can remember how to... Yeah, there we go. You can find the guides here. So you see these indents right here and right here. You just clip the unit in like this and you mount the plastic piece. Hold on. That opens up the clips. So you mount the plastic piece to the back of your TV or monitor or maybe you're using this at a POS terminal in a store, something where you don't want like a huge PC next to it. You screw this into the back with those screws that I said I'd tell you more about later. They're stuck to something. Sorry guys. And then you clip the PC in just like this. Like I kind of showed you already, but whatever. And there you go. Just like that. No big deal, right? You have access to all of your important I.O. including that top USB 2 port. And you have a nice little low profile PC. You don't need a wire for networking because it has built-in wireless as well as built-in Bluetooth and I think that pretty much covers it. Thank you for checking out my unboxing of the ever popular ZOTAC AD04. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.