Pros: An excellent "budget" touchscreen. For a touchscreen it has a decent image and viewing angles and a small case. Best part of all is that it ships with linux drivers that have a *gasp* decent calibration tool that can run unpriviledged.

Cons: Not a con for me, but the linux driver is serial only.

Overall Review: If you require linux support, take a serious look at this monitor. It took minutes to set up (manual covers linux install well) and the calibration tool works with Xfree and Xorg (unlike ELO's linux calibration tool)

Pros: Inexpensive. Works out of the box with lirc. Configuration a snap with Mythbuntu.

Cons: Receiver is extremely sensitive to a wide band of IR. This is why some reviewers report the red LED in the receiver is always on. This is only a problem if the random blinking of the receiver LED would bother you or you want to use this remote to sleep/wake your PC. The problem with the latter is that the PC will wake up randomly when the receiver picks up *anything*.

Overall Review: If you want to be able to sleep and wake your myth box via your remote to save power you might want to look at another MCE remote.

Pros: First Celeron PC I have used since the 300a (remember that one? If you don't... Get off my lawn!) Adequately powered for basic tasks. This is a parent PC and is perfectly suited for the task. Comes with a keyboard and mouse, though they are pretty cheap.

Cons: As already mentioned expect to uninstall a fair amount of bloatware. Not as bad as other machines I've set up and it was all easy to uninstall. I haven't seen any nagging popups as mentioned by the other reviewer though I uninstalled *everything* that wasn't required including the Dell "support" applications that Dell will tell you is required to get support from them. The only time I'll call Dell is if there is a hardware failure under warranty. Life is too short to spend time on the phone with them diagnosing a software problem. Doesn't support dual monitors via the built-in VGA and HDMI connectors. Can accept a 1/2 height PCI-Express x16 card, though the small power supply limits your choices. You wouldn't do this for performance, just for dual-monitor support.

Overall Review: Build quality is OK. Reminds me of the Vostro line. Basic design with a flimsy plastic facade. You will also want to purchase a 16GB USB thumb drive to use to create the "restore disk". No using DVDs anymore (?). I suggest using the Windows restore disk utility since the Dell backup software doesn't seem to be able to detect USB flash drives. Speaking of the restore disk, it will not be updated when you update the system to 8.1 so a subsequent restore will revert the system to 8.0 (with all the bloatware). This makes sense, but is unfortunate. If you have the technical chops and a spare older HDD you would be better served by removing the bloatware, updating to 8.1, then imaging the disk and putting that on a shelf.

Pros: Small. Quiet. Can boot from the SD card slot. Nice little system.

Cons: The network interface (Atheros L1) is not compatible with CentOS which is the base distribution for PBX in a Flash (PIAF). Download speeds are fine but it has serious transmit issues. Would have been great for a SOHO PIAF platform if not for the poorly supported network chip.

Overall Review: The poster who said this requires an SSD is wrong. You just need a 2.5" hard drive

Pros: None

Cons: These devices are garbage. There is a reason *recent* drivers from Prolific's website do not work. Google "Prolific driver error code 10". They are not using genuine prolific USB->Serial chips. You can get older drivers to work but even when you do the devices are not reliable.

Overall Review: If you want to save yourself a headache spend a few bucks more on a USB-Serial converter. I've used the Sabrent SBT-FTDI or Tripp Lite U209-000-R without issue.

Pros: Inexpensive networked BD player

Cons: None.

Overall Review: +1 to Morlok8k's comments. I too couldn't update via the network and had to download the firmware from LG's website. A couple of additional notes to clarify the process: The firmware page (Drivers & Software tab) lists firmware files for the BD551. These work for the 530 too so don't sweat it. There are 6 downloads listed and 5 seem to be the same version (BD.4.380.00). Find the one that is BD.4.598.00 (second one from top as of this writing). Then follow the procedure outlined by Morlok8k to upgrade to BD.4.598.00 then BD.4.784.00 via the network upgrade.