Pros: Nice design, easy to build, everything appears to be high quality and designed for people with basic tools and assembly skills. Installed Fedora with Amahi home server software. The nettop streams video (and other media) to a PS3. At idle (most of the day) it sips 30W of A/C power. I put in 2 GB memory, 1 TB WD green hard drive, and LG DVD burner. Newegg provided prompt delivery. One happy customer right now.

Cons: Would have preferred DVI video output. I was short an analog cable and had to dust off the old analog monitor in the garage. MSI got rid of PS2 connectors, why not VGA connectors at the same time My final configuration is headless - no monitor, no keyboard mouse, and this was a temporary inconvenience. The wireless antenna is a waste. I needed 802.11N for speed anyhow, and bought a router.

Overall Review: Was originally considering Shuttle X27D barebone, which is a more compact design and has similar specs. Decided to save some money and get the larger 1 TB 3.5" drive (Shuttle supports 2.5" drives). I was concerned that the MSI product might be inferior quality. My concern was completely unjustified. There is a youtube video describing this product - search youtube for "MSI Wind nettop assembly". The video also helps satisfy any concerns about the product quality.

Pros: Inexpensive board, used Kuma dual processor at 2.8 Ghz, decent performance with 2*2GB memory modules. ATI 3xxx video worked out of the box with Ubuntu 9.04

Cons: Was unable to upgrade to proprietary ATI drivers for Linux. ATI Catalyst modifies x11 configuration. You then have to drop down to command line to fix. Rebooting will not work without manual editing of configuration files. This may affect only Ubuntu users. Problem is with AMD/ATI Linux support - not an ASUS issue. Also TV card no longer works - it was fine on older motherboard.

Overall Review: If you need a serial port, remember to order the serial port bracket with this board. The motherboard supports a single rs232 port, but no external DB-9 connector is provided.

Pros: Cheap

Cons: The board seems to run an older BIOS and does not have any BIOS update candidates. I had problems with some DDR3 modules that should have been compatible according to specifications. My biggest issue is the lack of USB3 support. A careful reading of the specs indicate only USB2 - guess I was not reading carefully before purchasing this old design board. I installed an add-on USB3 adapter that works fine, except that BIOS will not support USB boot from add-on adapter.

Overall Review: I would not recommend

Pros: Nice features for a small board

Cons: Board came with older BIOS and had to be flashed to boot any system at all. With new BIOS and UEFI turned off, it is unable to boot Fedora or OpenSuSE linux. It boots Mint, but has unstable operation. I have most on-board features turned off and no overclocking. I am able to install Mint, and sometimes it boots the installed system. I suspect problems with graphics drivers. I could spend another hundred and try operation with a new video board - but why should I have spent my money on an APU processor and board to begin with.

Overall Review: If you plan to run Linux, get the AM3+ board with a 6 or 8 core processor. I cannot recommend Asrock for any motherboard.

Pros: Quad core at 3.7 GHz, seems to be good upgrade from my old AMD Kuma 7750 dual core. Matched with Asrock FM2A88M Extreme+4

Cons: Catalyst drivers for Linux in beta only and unstable. No sensors have standard driver support with Linux as of this date. Several popular Linux distros will not boot with this CPU (Fedora, OpenSuSE). Mint boots, but has stability problems. Forget about overclocking - is this a CPU or a motherboard issue? Difficult to know.

Overall Review: Might be a good product after software matures - if graphics performance improves. I am getting an external video card (Nvidia), leaving the built-in graphics unused. I should have bought an AM3+ 8-core CPU, as I have to get external graphics card anyhow.

Pros: Successfully streams digital channels to Linux MythTV and VLC. Great concept for networked homes with multiple PC's. Also a good learning platform, when you want to learn more about digital TV and cable broadcasts.

Cons: Documentation seems to be written for people already knowledgeable about things like QAM64, QAM256, ATSC, etc. You should expect to invest some time learning, before you can make this device work in your setup, especially if you are using with cable broadcast.

Overall Review: Newegg has usually been good to me, but this time they shipped an open box product, even though I had ordered the regular product and paid full price. Clearly, everything in the package had been opened up, including torn CD-envelope and cables. Product was received with non-factory installed firmware. I finally decided the product was in working order after installing later version of firmware. I was really tempted to return the product, but did not want any more inconveniences.