Dell Zino HD: $260 Mini Home Theater PC [HTPCs]

After giving us an early look, Dell has revealed the full specs of their color-happy Mac Mini-esque Zino HD. And for 0ish, you aren’t just getting an Atom net top. UPDATE x2

Instead, Dell has turned to AMD chips starting with a base Athlon processor (which can be bumped to an AMD Athlon™ X2, and AMD Athlon™ Neo X2). A single hard drive squeezes inside (up to 1TB) along with as many as 8GB of RAM. And you can choose between integrated graphics and an ATI Radeon HD 4330 512MB card.

That should be enough power to drive 1080P out of the HDMI port (using an optional Blu-ray drive and TV Tuner if you’d like). You also score 4 USB ports (2 front, 2 back) along with 2 eSATA ports for easy drive expansion.

The Zino HD goes on sale today. But I haven’t spotted it on Dell’s site just yet. I’m interested to see what you really get in that base 0ish rig, and how much a few of these key upgrades will cost. If Dell keeps the price down, the Zino HD could be a no-brainer when compared to the Atom and Ion-based systems floating around. [Dell]

UPDATE: Dell’s press materials they sent out said the Zino HD would start at 0. As of right now, the cheapest configuration online is 0. We’ve contacted Dell for clarification.

UPDATE 2: This is fun, isn’t it? Swap out Windows 7 Professional with Home and the price drops to 0. I have no clue why a sub-0 computer defaults with a 0 OS upgrade.

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