Pros: Cheap compared to the competition, low CAS latency, perfectly matches the specs for the Dell Mini 9. Heat sink is a nice added bonus.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: Are you considering this for the Dell Mini 9, but are concerned that it won't fit due to the heat-sink? Don't worry, the heat sink is a very thin layer to distribute the heat, and it fits in there perfectly. The heat sink is probably ~1 mm thick.

Pros: It is cheap.

Cons: You get what you pay for. Card has horrible support under linux (Ubuntu), and cannot even get close to theoretical speeds under windows or linux. Very unreliable card.

Overall Review: Spend the extra money and get a gigabit card made by intel, you won't regret it.

Pros: I am some what of an audiophile and these speakers are brilliant for their size and price as desktop speakers. The low end is impactful while the mids are sweet and not bright.

Cons: The main gripe I have is in the highs these speakers fall apart when loud but at normal listening levels it is good throughout its range.

Pros: Great price for the hardware. The IGP is great for an HTPC, I have my TV hooked up via HDMI getting 1080p. (Under Ubuntu linux). With the latest ALSA snapshot, I am getting 5.1 AC3 + DTS + LPCM via HDMI audio. Supports KVM for virtualization.

Cons: The first annoying issue is that I couldn't get the external SPDIF plug to work under linux. Second, the PCI-Express slot is too close to the other PCI slots, so essentially the nearest PCI slot is useless with any modern GPU. It only has 5 SATA ports, which isn't that great.

Overall Review: My perfect motherboard would be this expanded to full ATX size, 8 SATA ports, and extra room by the PCI-Express slot. Really though, its a great motherboard and I would get it again.

Pros: Works great under Ubuntu linux 9.04 with the Nvidia drivers. I was able to use component video to get 720p on my TV. It supports VDPAU (GPU video acceleration) so watching HD movies uses like 3% CPU. No fan, so its silent.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: In my experience Nvidia cards are much easier to use under Linux than ATI, especially when trying to connect to a TV.

Pros: Incredible combination of various technologies at a super low price. This is a champion CPU for virtualization, and has support for nested paging. The stock cooling is more than adequate (at least in my case) if you are not planning on overclocking.

Cons: Nothing really. I guess its somewhat annoying that it only supports 2 sticks of ram at 1066, and that the 3rd and 4th stick cause the ram timings to drop to 800 MHz. This is the case in my ASUS mobo at least.

Overall Review: I am running Ubuntu with KVM as my hypervisor, with three VM's. On top of it, I am still able to watch 1080p movies with XBMC running in the hypervisor. Seriously, this thing is amazing, just buy it.