Are any Zotac Zboxs suitable as HTPC / media centres?

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Published on 2013-06-09T03:45:47Z Indexed on 2013/10/21 4:10 UTC
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Are any Zotac Zboxes suitable as HTPC / media centres?

I'm after a fanless HTPC client in the living room to work with my MythTV server in my home office. I like the small compact form factor of the Zbox but what little I could find by Googling didn't clearly recommend any particular models for Ubuntu / MythTV / XBMC.

Can anyone recommend any models that work with little hassle?

Or, if there aren't any, are there other more Linux-friendly small format fanless PCs I should be looking at instead?

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