Recent content by josephandrews22

Thanks for the responses. As usual I learned some stuff. Thanks again.

I wasn't writing about any controversy...simply that a stock i7 sold in Dell's XPS line of desktops about five years ago has the same specs (I think) as a stock i3 sold in the same line of XPS desktops today. Is there something I'm missing? Do the specs miss something? Is a five year old i7...

I know some things but don't know a lot more things. I'd like to learn a bit more about CPU performance. I'm quite happy with the performance of my five year-old Dell XPS 8700...the CPU inside is the Core i7 4790. I am not a gamer. From here...

...I think I'll try the motherboard first. Our Zino is the 400 with the 4330 graphics chip; there is a base 400 (no 4330) and also a 300 (which, as I recall, lacks the eSATA ports). Good suggestion, though, about the 300 offered on ebay; I thought about that. Thanks again.

Hi all. ...love anandtech--longtime lurker here. Our little Dell Zino (form factor: Mac Mini on steroids) is sick. HDMI out is broken and both eSATA ports are broken (the Zino was marketed as an HTPC device). Standard analog video out works fine; all five USB ports work fine...start-up does...

Late late in '09, Anand wrote a wonderful piece... http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3703&p=1 ...that in essence described the innards of a Dell Zino HD. I bought one and like it. Am I right in surmising that this Toshiba 11.6" netbook...