Pros: 1. Very low power consumption, between 11 to 13W at the outlet when idle. 2. The cheapest complete computer you can get right now. 3. 1.5ghz dual core ulv sandy bridge processor celeron 887 4. 2 SODIMM slots for expandability and dual channel capability 5. Intel 82579V gigabit ethernet. (Acer's driver for windows is broken) 6. Surprise! It has an unlisted msata slot 7. Atheros a/b/g/n dual band wireless with bluetooth 4.0 (AR5BWB222) 8. Relatively easy disassembly without warranty void stickers covering screw holes. 9. Very quiet. Uses a single heatpipe cooler of the type you'd normally find in a laptop. When I put my ear about an inch or 2 up against the exhaust grill, I can barely hear it. 10. Pictures might not show, but it comes with an Acer branded USB keyboard and optical mouse. 11. The 2GB memory stick is a DDR3 1600 module by Kingston, but YMMV. 12. 2 USB 3.0 ports on the front. 4 USB 2.0 ports on the back. (HM70 chipset brings a pair natively) 13. Windows 7 and 8 drivers available on Acer's website.

Cons: It's only a celeron 887...but if I needed more, I'd have paid more for the core i3 or i5 variant. Would have been perfect had this come with a more recent chip like the celeron 1007u or 1037u, but this is most likely an older stock clearance item. Runs a bit warm for my tastes, 42C at idle, can get up to 67C when benchmarking, but I hear that's pretty good for a case that's barely a liter in volume. The windows LAN driver on Acer's website is corrupt or something, hope they fix it soon. Since it's an Intel 82579V, get it from Intel's website. Slow 5400rpm WD Scorpio Blue laptop drive I got in mine was slow, but nothing special to rant about. msata slot appears to be sata 2 Price dropped $8 the day after I ordered it.

Overall Review: I originally bought this nettop to replace an m-itx mini box I made for torrenting and remoting purposes I could leave on 24/7. I powered up the computer as is to get a feel for what the stock machine was like. Linpus ran fairly well with the few applications I ran on it to test it. Couldn't even get Chrome to load, but that's more my lack of experience with Linux than the hardware's fault. On to Windows: Blew out the install of Linpus and installed a VL copy of windows 7 Pro x64, installed my standard suite of security and testing software. Performance was ok. A lot of page file usage due to the 2GB memory. Decided it was time to try upgrading: Found a 2GB stick of Mushkin DDR3 1066 in the bottom of my kit bag. The Veriton liked it. Even went dual channel at 1066. Was about to swap out the laptop HDD when I noticed the empty msata slot. Had a moment of indecision, use my rather old 4 year old 2.5" SSD or try out the msata slot? After a quick run out to the local computer parts warehouse, managed to score a refurbished Crucial M4 128gb SSD for a reasonable price. Installed everything, cloned the HDD to the SSD and things are running pretty nicely. 1080p videos play quite smoothly on media player classic. Not so smoothly on VLC. Basic computer and net use is very snappy. As with any Intel HD powered computer, 3D gaming performance is terrible. Skip this device if 3D gaming is important to you. If you want to make a basic linux powered media streamer or a basic windows powered desktop, it's hard to beat this nettop at this price, especially if you like to tinker.

Pros: After quite a bit of searching, I found that adding the kernel boot option i915.modeset=0 or nomodeset will prevent the bizarre psychedelic flashing that often plagues installations of linux on this pc. This worked on the 4 or 5 distros I tried. This significantly improves the appeal of this little pc. I'll probably be buying several more of these now that I know I can install centos or ubuntu-based distros without the flashing graphics issue

Cons: None right now.

Overall Review: Currently testing one as an icecast streaming server - working very nicely so far.

Pros: solid unit besides the one con below

Cons: fdi lines reversed and requires newer kernel to utilize top two rear USB ports under HDMI ports

Overall Review: Hi Jeff, the problem is caused by the fdi link being reversed on the hardware. You need a distro running a newer kernel which contains a patch for the intel driver. You can find the patch @ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60029 however it should be in mainline kernels after 3.8 I think Setting the modeset and other grub tricks really just disables the intel driver in the Linpus OS so you'll receive poor video experience by utilizing those commands.

Pros: Great price, good CPU, includes everything (CPU, HDD, memory), compact form, HDMI/DVI, serial port, GbE, good Linux compatibility.

Cons: No VGA for legacy components. External power supply brick. Not as small as NUC. HDD removal a bit difficult.

Overall Review: I bought 3 of these boxes for general purpose use. Need an extra FTP server? You got it. Need an XBMC media player? You got it. Want to try out a new Linux install? Do it with this box. Need a PC to capture photos from your USB microscope camera? This is the box for you. Need a print server? Want to collect and record some data? Need an extra NAS? And so forth. I tried Openelec-XBMC, Linux Mint, Ubuntu, it all worked flawlessly. These boxes are cheap enough and good enough that you can use them for almost any low-intensity computing purpose around the house, lab, or office space. The inclusion of a serial port makes it easy to use them for industrial applications, like replacing an 386 computer in some old industrial equipment. For every application, just use a separate dedicated box - this is what I think is called "Linux as an appliance". The next one I am going to use will be an FTP server (Linux of course) that will try to run OCR on incoming scanned documents.

Pros: A great deal if you can pick one up on sale. You get a complete PC for under 200. I got this to run XMBC, which it does easily. Picked this over a first-generation NUC because it comes with memory, USB 3.0 and a 2.5" drive. It's ready to run XBMC as is or you can tinker a bit. -also has an mSATA slot -gigabit internet -2GB Kingston PC3-12800 SODIMM and room for one more -320GB WD Blue hard drive -USB mouse and keyboard -power brick with a right-angle connector -can be mounted behind a monitor or TV with VESA holes

Cons: It's hard to find faults with it at this price. The included VESA mount doesn't allow for as compact an attachment as I'd like.

Overall Review: I didn't care for the version of Linux it came with but I wasn't going to run it anyway. The incldued mouse and keyboard are very basic. I looked up the disasembly video noted in an earlier review. Generally, the same directions apply to this unit but it should be noted it uses a different case and board design. Instead of the USB add-on board, you'll be disconnecting the audio jacks module if you go to replace the drive; there are couple more screws holding everything together than in the video. I replaced the HDD with an SSD I had left over from another build.

Pros: This machine makes a great Linux Mint workstation. It's cheap and works well for web browsing and other low resource tasks. I would buy another.

Cons: The Linux distro that comes preinstalled is rubbish and as a I have limited tech knowledge, it took me some time to figure out how to upgrade the kernel to 10.11 so that a Linux Mint 15 distro would work properly.

Overall Review: Ship with Mint 15 and everyone will be happy!

Pros: low price point, lots of features (wireless/BT/dual cpu). low power consumption, quite, great for connecting to my TV through HDMI. Plays 1080p videos and youtube, netflix, no problem.

Cons: wish it came with wireless keyboard and mouse, the operating system didnt suite my needs so i installed fedora on it.

Pros: Small. Runs Windows Media Center perfectly with good response. Works great with HD Home Run Prime cable card tuner. dual-band WiFi (5 and 2.4 GHz). This helps in packed areas...until everyone else gets 5GHz, I guess.

Cons: CPU is a bit weak so sites like HBOGO and MAXGO that for some reason don't support video GPU acceleration don't work well. No rear audio port.

Overall Review: Don't expect this computer to be a workhorse, but it's pretty good for making your TV "Smart" in a Windows sort of way...if you install Windows on it.