Pros: cost, windows 8 pro, small form factor, low power consumption, mine came with qualcomm aetheros wifi adapter even though wifi is not listed in the specs anywhere. free upgrade to windows 8.1 pro, then free upgrade to windows 10 pro

Cons: no 8 coa, but can still get key with a keyfinder like magic jelly bean. does come with a 19v laptop power brick. may or may not be a minus but you will have to devote extra space for the power brick. free upgrade to windows 8.1 pro, listing as a con because OS was installed in march of 2015, obviously they didn't take the time to update to 8.1 for you. took about a day to upgrade and do all the windows updates, etc... (why not just install 8.1 with the 8 key??? i've done this many times!!)

Overall Review: for the price paid (120 after rebate) the cost of the computer with windows 8 pro is almost a no brainer. obviously you aren't going to be playing the latest greatest games on this but for a work machine running IE, office applications, etc.. it's more than enough. I've installed in a work environment with our ERP software and have not noticed any slowness, etc...

Pros: 32gb...

Cons: lasted 4 months... one day phone would not recognize card. took it out and tried to read it in computer, tried 3 computers and 3 different card readers. none would even recognize the card. like its not even there. well luckily everything was backed up except for the last few weeks of pictures. just got back from vacation too, so lost all of those. Epic Fail! I should have headed others warning before i bought but i thought what are the chances? well seems like the chances are pretty high! Save yourself the headaches and buy a better card for a few dollars more.

Pros: small. will handle most applications that are not processor intensive very well. running media center, media browser theater, netflix, network streams of movie files just as well as the big full pc it replaced. comes with dual band wifi and bluetooth.

Cons: only 2 usb. 32gb version is a little tight on space after win8.1 install. light, so hdmi cable can make it float, stand up, etc... took several hours to download and install first windows 8.1 updates. the emmc hdd isn't a speed demon. you are going to need a usb hub or at least a wireless keyboard mouse that runs off the same usb unifying device. otherwise no usb ports for anything. i'm running a logitech k400 so i have 1 usb port open right now.

Overall Review: i bought the 32gb version and am pretty happy. i wish it had more usb ports and it would be fantastic. but seeing as it was cheap and came with everything but an OS i'm happy. someone else indicated that they read a press release from ECS that stated it would come with windows 8.1. i didn't have any difficulty finding on newegg that it came with everything but an OS. i wonder if ECS could put on the windows 8.1 with bing OS that is free from MS? or is that just reserved for tablets? if ECS could put 8.1 w. bing on this thing would be incredibly awesome.

Pros: small. comes with power adapter. refurbished stick looked new and has had zero issues. netflix interface is way better than windows media center. can read and play local media files with plex or media browser channel.

Cons: takes 60-90 seconds to boot. can remedy this by plugging in to outlet full time. doesn't support mhl (i know they make an mhl stick version just throwing this out there for others) i have a roku ready tv and plugging this into the mhl port will not allow you to control the stick with your tv remote. i knew this going in but can be confusing because of how roku ready tv's are advertised.

Overall Review: this is my first roku. i've read that it is slower compared to roku3. however, i have noticed no lag or anything that i would warrant to buy a more expensive, bigger form factor roku. once this boots it works just fine.

Pros: pretty quick with windows 8.1 with media center installed. USB 3.0, HDMI, built in IR that works out of the box with windows media center remotes. bay trail based SOC and bay trail has some really highly rated remarks on the web.

Cons: only sata2 port for hard drive. realtek gigabit network. no DVI or VGA. use this with a HDMI TV or monitor with HDMI. 500+ MB zip file from intel with drivers bundle. that's a lot of bloat. i only needed 3 or 4 of the supplied drivers. chipset, video, TXE, and infrared (may not have needed infrared but installed anyway) video driver doesn't support over/under scan adjustment like nvidia and ATI cards do. i had to find a setting on my TV to adjust so i could see clock/start button/etc...

Overall Review: well when you get this capable little machine for little money you knew there were sacrifices somewhere. would be nice to have sata3 would also be nice if intel would have used one of their own network cards, but at this price you can't expect top of the line components. from my reading on this SOC it seems like none support sata3... or at least no documents specifically say it's sata2 or sata3. just that it supports 2.5" hard drive. G-skill F3-1600C9D-8GSL 1.35v memory works. purchased two of these little boxes and both work good, no real complaints here.

Pros: works like it should.

Cons: buttons are small. arrow buttons are small and close together, no spacing between them. makes it a chore to press the button and not hit another button.

Overall Review: i have an older model rrc-127 that is basically this remote with a few differences. 1) spacing between the arrow keys 2) slightly wider, but not much 3) it lacks the red,green, yellow, blue buttons. (i wish it had those) 4) circular play/pause/etc button layout (which i prefer) i still prefer my old rrc-127 over this newer model. it's slightly bigger but still not huge. it's easier to do the most common tasks on media center with it, which is use the arrow keys, click enter, and use the play/pause buttons.