Pros: I've got one of these with a Richland processor set up with a rather expensive CAD video card and 16 Gigs of RAM. It's run superbly for the user. If I had the money I'd obviously take the Xeon workstation route, but it's not being used to design extremely sophisticated product, and I've been very impressed. As a side note, I've got about 15 A88XM-A boards, which are almost identical, running throughout the office. Not a single failure, device incompatibility issue, etc. No DOAs. Also, it's incredibly easy to update the BIOS. Very pleased.

Cons: Can't really think of any.

Overall Review: I'd highly recommend this board for someone who is looking for a moderate-performance system. Do your research, pick good RAM and update the BIOS at your very first power-on.

Pros: It's still the flagship office productivity suite on the market. It does what it's done for years. That's about it.

Cons: The ALL CAPS tab titles? Yikes. You have to work really hard to eliminate the 'sky drive' option, which is incredibly stupid in a business environment. It all but pleads with users to upload their documents! Also, the Save screen has to be tweaked (and it takes some doing) or else the save process is 2 steps just to get to a list of folders. Virtually no visual enhancement choices for the UI - basically white or light grey.

Overall Review: Better than its open source counterparts in terms of functionality. However, it doesn't feel 'professional' anymore. It hits you with unwanted 'features' like SkyDrive, then makes it rather difficult (it takes Group Policy settings) to fully get rid of it. Definitely another step toward the 'let's call our programs 'apps' and make them cool!' nonsense.

Pros: Simple printer with handy web page access to just about all settings. Appears to be running the job we use it for very smoothly.

Cons: We use 3M matte silver 2-up labels. There is 3M brand information on the opposite side of the backing as the labels. When i received the printer, it absolutely would not calibrate with the labels. The stock worked just fine with recently purchased ZT410s, and I was surprised. First call to tech support - got a guy who repeatedly swore while on the phone with me when I asked him to clarify his descriptions of what I should do and when I described what I was seeing so that he might understand why I had trouble following his instructions and get it worked out. He never modified his instructions at all - when I asked things like 'do you mean (x) thing I'm looking at?" or "When you say 'front' do you mean (x)?", he was very audibly frustrated and swore. He gave me incredibly bad instructions about positioning the paper sensor - he had me position it in the exact middle of the 2-up stock, meaning that it would always be aimed directly at gaps - the labels would never cross it. Well, he determined that the printer wouldn't work with the labels and that I should order 'black mark' stock. Considering I had about $100 in stock left, and I didn't even know if 3M produced this stock in black mark backing, I was quite unhappy. After a day I called again. I figured maybe the call was an outlier and just wanted the printer to do what I bought it for. I did get a guy who was much better than the first one, and he stuck with me patiently. He was about to give up and give me the same answer as the first guy, albeit much more politely, when I asked about sensor settings. After about 45 minutes overall, he suggested changing the media sensor setting from 'reflective' (supposed to work with pretty much everything) to 'transmissive.' Worked like a charm right away.

Overall Review: Runs very nicely once you've got the settings squared away. Don't count on too much help from the documentation or FAQ web site, if you need either, and good luck if you decide to speak with tech support. In my case there was a simple sensor setting that made it work perfectly. It only took me about an hour and a half on the phone, getting repeatedly swore at by one truly awful (not at all technical)-support rep, and a long call with a second, decent one, to get it working.

Pros: Excellent airflow potential - I've filled all fan slots in some 12 builds with this case now, and the temps are excellent. Lots of space and openings for cable management behind/under the motherboard. Front faceplate is very stylish, and modestly so - no gaudiness. I especially like the simple white-colored power and hd activity LEDs. Excellent for office builds, where excessively bright red or blue LEDs can be distracting or annoying.

Cons: One major con that has not stopped me from buying more --> There are two top fan openings for 120/140 mm fans. A nice positive. However, the top standoff positions result in all motherboards mounting with the top edge virtually flush with the top of the case. They're positioned too high inside the case. Even a Micro-ATX motherboard, when installed, renders at least one of the two fan openings basically useless, apart from extreme measures... I've installed a bunch of ASUS A88XM-A micro-ATX boards, and the more forward-positioned fan space is blocked by a single RAM stick - moving to another slot doesn't matter - they're all in the way. Using the front fan space means that the secondary 4-pin CPU power cord has to be kinked severely by the pressure of the fan contact. So... I've actually chopped off a fair amount of plastic from the frames of the top 120mm fans I've used in order to enable me to install the things... Most boards have their RAM slots situated so that, depending on how much RAM you're using, at least one of the fan slots is going to be blocked by the RAM stick/sticks. Not especially well thought out...

Overall Review: I recommend it highly if you're not likely to use either of the top two 120/140 mm fan openings. Chances are very good that you'll end up with one or both of the spaces being unusable, with most motherboards. Unless you want to shave off a substantial amount of plastic off of the fan/fans you're going to use...

Pros: I've bought numerous lesser priced Acer 19.5" monitors for my office recently - they've been very good for the price. I first bought this one to serve as a desktop monitor for a user who frequently travels with her laptop, but needs a monitor at work. I was very impressed by the exceptional clarity when I got it configured, and now I'm getting another for a person who is having trouble focusing on the lesser monitors - she spent a day with it and she said her eyes weren't tired after work for the first time in years. That settled the issue for me - I'll be buying many more.

Cons: Glossy coated screen, with the standard negatives associated with glossy screens. Not so good in bright sunlight environments.

Overall Review: HIGHLY recommended, especially for people who are especially susceptible to eye fatigue.

Pros: 10 sticks for 10 AMD APU-based workstations, and each one tested for 10 hours+ with memtest86+. Not a single error, and the workstations are running like a charm. Can't comment on longevity yet, after only a month and a half, but I'm very, very happy thus far.

Cons: They don't pop themselves into DIMM slots?

Overall Review: My builds were semi-budget builds, but I wanted solid RAM. The Kingston sticks were cheaper than some performance sticks, and more expensive than budget RAM. I am very happy with the result.