Pros: My Kill-a-watt meter says it's using 27W under load with a picoPSU, 2GB DDR2, no HD or CD, and running live distros from a multi-boot USB flash. DSL. SLAX, and Puppy Linux run very fast.... everything happens instantly. intel has eaten VIA's lunch.

Cons: 40mm 5CFM NB fan is too loud... about 35dB. North Bridge chip burns about 17W. Mature drivers for the 945 chipset are a plus, but intel has dropped the ball in failing to provide a low-power NB chip.

Overall Review: I just took out the 40mm fan and pointed an 18dB 20CFM 80mm at the heatsink. Cool'n'quiet. Next step is to nLite XP to a Transcend 300x SLC CF. I don't like any of the itx cases I've seen, so I used the box it came in as a case. Fits perfectly ;-)

Pros: No noise. Kill-a-Watt meter shows only 10 watts using pico-psu. Seems about as fast as my 1.8Ghz Celeron 1037u system. Plenty of I/O ports. Boots "as is" from USB flash linux. The Heatsink feels slightly warmer than room temp.

Cons: None so far, but I haven't yet tested the USB3, HDMI, DVI ports or internal headers for SATA, USB, COM, Parallel, etc.

Overall Review: I'm posting this review with it. I tested a few live USB distros. Puppy variants (Precise 7.1, Slacko 7.1) and Porteus 3.0 (LXDE, RazorQT, XFCE.) I installed 2 x 1GB DDR3. I used an old 16GB Rally USB2 flash and setup the live distros using YUMI from pendrivelinux. Again, I made NO edits to BIOS. Just powered it up, it booted, and ran as is. Doesn't get much easier.