Wednesday, January 8th 2025
ZOTAC Targets Healthcare Market with New ZBOX H39R5000W
While we expected more ZOTAC ZBOX mini-PCs at the CES 2025 show, it appears that it was just too early for some of the new models to be announced. In the meantime, ZOTAC was keen to show off a single ZBOX mini-PC that was quite a feat to design considering it is aimed at healthcare solutions with EN60601-1 compliancy.
This one uses a slim 2.66-inch metal chassis with rounded edges, and is based on Intel Core i9-13900HX 24-core/32-thread processor paired up with NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Laptop GPU with 16 GB of GDDR6 memory. It offers up to 682 AI TOPS. The rest of the specifications include support for up to 64 GB of DDR5-5600 RAM in two SO-DIMM slots, two M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 storage slots, dual 2.5 Gbps Ethernet, Wi-Fi 6, and Bluetooth 5.2 connectivity, as well as two HDMI 2.1 and two DisplayPort 1.4a outputs, one Thunderbolt 4 and five USB 3.2 ports. It supports VESA mounting as well as L-shaped mounting.
This one uses a slim 2.66-inch metal chassis with rounded edges, and is based on Intel Core i9-13900HX 24-core/32-thread processor paired up with NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Laptop GPU with 16 GB of GDDR6 memory. It offers up to 682 AI TOPS. The rest of the specifications include support for up to 64 GB of DDR5-5600 RAM in two SO-DIMM slots, two M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 storage slots, dual 2.5 Gbps Ethernet, Wi-Fi 6, and Bluetooth 5.2 connectivity, as well as two HDMI 2.1 and two DisplayPort 1.4a outputs, one Thunderbolt 4 and five USB 3.2 ports. It supports VESA mounting as well as L-shaped mounting.
1 Comment on ZOTAC Targets Healthcare Market with New ZBOX H39R5000W
I've worked in hospitals and even worked as a hospital employee in the past. The things that make a PC healthcare-ready are as many of the following as possible:
- Sealed/Fanless/Waterproof/Dustproof
- Shock-tolerant
- As many permanent mounting fixtures and holes as possible for walls, poles, tables, ceilings, gurneys
- Anti-theft, and vandalism-resistant
- recessed buttons that cannot be pressed by accident but can still be pressed with thick gloves
- integrated PSU to minimise the number of things that need mounting and to minimise cable clutter that can get snagged on things, pulled out, or damaged.
- rounded corners
- as few protrusions as possible (wifi antennae etc)
- recessed ports to keep the inflexible connector part of the cables out of harm's way.
Yeah, hospital equipment often needs to be more robust than military spec frontline hardware.