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Zotac's ZBOX line of mini PCs is getting a major refresh this year. Ahead of Computex, the company teased several upcoming models including the new ZBOX Magnus EAMAX390C and EN7506TC systems are powerful 2.65 liter mini PCs with AMD Strix Halo or Intel + NVIDIA hardware.
But the company is also updating its smaller, less powerful systems with a new range of ZBOX M-series and C-Series computers sporting the latest Intel processors.
The new ZBOX edge MI676 and MI656 mini PCs are small computers with Intel Core Ultra Series 2 processors and fans inside the cases for active cooling.
Zotac hasn't shared which Core Ultra Series 2 processors the systems use – all we know is that they have "Intel Arc Graphics, and Neural Processing Units for low power, sustained AI workloads." But that description could technically apply to either Intel Core Ultra 200V Lunar Lake processors or Intel Core Ultra 200U/H Arrow Lake processors.
What's the difference? In a nutshell Lunar Lake chips have higher-performance NPUs and on-chip LPDDR5x memory. Arrow Lake mobile chips, on the other hand, are a little more power-hungry and have higher-performance GPUs. But their NPUs deliver less performance, which means that Arrow Lake systems don't meet the minimum specifications to support Microsoft's Copilot+ PC features for Windows 11.
The new ZBOX C-Series mini PCs lineup features several new passively cooled models, ranging from the ZBOX Edge CI345 with an Intel N150 Twin Lake processor (a 6 watt, 4-core, 4-thread chip for entry-level systems) to the ZBOX CI655 nano and ZBOX CI675 nano which will most likely feature Intel Core Ultra 5 and Core Ultra 7 (Series 2) processors if Zotac is following the same naming conventions that it's used in recent years.
The CI600 series mini PCs tend to have slightly larger bodies than the CI300 or M-series systems to allow for more airflow for passive cooling (without a fan).
More details should be available in the coming days.
via Zotac (1)(2)
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