Pros: Makes for a nice "hackintosh" (os86x) with Intel E5200 and evga Geforce 9500 GT. Uses standard case connectors for power, HD LED, etc.

Cons: No Firewire on-board. Lacks external SATA port. (but, this board is $60 so what can you expect... good value for money nonetheless).

Overall Review: Audio (green line out jack), USB and ethernet work out of the box with the hackintosh (iPC 10.5.6). Limited but functional support for on-board video (1024*768 @ 60 Hz). Combined with 4 GB RAM, the Intel E5200 and the Evga GeForce 9500 GT (using a generic 1GB EFI string added using the OSX86Tool app) this Hackintosh works flawlessly (I don't know how Windows works yet b/c haven't sullied my new machine with it ;-P). See the OSx86 project wiki for more help. PS this is a Hackintosh-related issue but the OSx86 doesn't like it if you install Mac OS X to a PATA HD with a device (DVD RW, e.g.) connected to an SATA port (works fine if you connect a device later on... haven't tried installing to an SATA HD though).

Pros: Works well. Has worked for 4.5 years in two separate home built rigs. Now powers a 4670K Haswell processor on a Gigabyte motherboard. Has blue lights if you like that sort of thing. Ps it's also quiet (I discovered that recently :). With the new mobo I don't need a separate video card with its own cooling fans. Wow. Does that ever make a noise difference.

Cons: It's worked for four and a half years. How can I possibly complain?

Pros: 1080p video. Looks really, really sharp with the right video files. Can stream video over a network from Mac OS X or Windows when connected with an ethernet cable. A decent selection of third party web services (radio, YouTube, NetFlix).

Cons: It's not as easy to configure as Apple TV. No built-in wireless connectivity. Requires an adapter that'll turn wireless into ethernet if you want wireless connectivity (which I have which is why I got it). Setting Windows up to stream video can be VERY frustrating. I'm still not sure how I got it streaming in Windows 7. I logged in to the admin account (I don't work in an admin account) and shared the video folder I wanted to share using that. Sharing it from within the regular account but with admin authentication did not work. I had to be logged into the admin account. Anyway, your mileage will vary. I still recommend it fairly strongly but it's not as much a slam dunk as say the Apple TV (though, the Apple TV has a different job in our house than the FreeAgent).

Overall Review: Haven't tried connecting a hard drive or a USB memory key to the device to play video. Am sure it'll work.

Pros: It works. What more do you need?

Cons: Didn't come with a chocolate bar.

Pros: Works in Windows 7 with WinTV software or with Windows Media Center. Receives ATSC and NTSC signals. Clear picture if signal strength is adequate (fairly sensitive tuner--as in able to pick up signals in basement for transmitters over 100 km away in NY state)

Cons: Requires some fiddling to get to work at times but not enough to stop me from giving 5 stars. The following are not cons, just hints: 1. Windows Media Center (WMC) CAN receive ATSC (digital) OTA signals in CANADA. The problem is that if you pick Canada as the country WMC only gives you analog(ue) (NTSC) channels--Canadians don't watch digital TV according to Microsoft? You can either (A) trick WMC by pretending to live in the US OR (B) modify the WMC preferences. (A) If you're in Toronto/GTA, it's easy. Choose United States as your WMC country and use the ZIP code for Youngstown, NY (14174). This'll auto-program Toronto's digital channels for you along with neighbouring US channels. (B) If you're not in GTA, search the web for "cannot detect my Hauupauge Q950 ATSC USB Tuner" and you'll find a discussion at Microsoft that'll direct you to a fix for WMC that should work elsewhere in Canada (or anywhere in the world).

Overall Review: 2. USB ports. Use the same USB port each time. If you run into problems when you plug into a different port you may need to reinstall the driver again. 3. WinTV is the included software. It's decent (not as annoyingly "simple" as WMC). On my Windows 7 machine I needed to enable hardware acceleration in WinTV's preferences to get it to work for more than 20 or 30 minutes (it would stop displaying video but it would continue to record... so I could watch the video "live" from the file with VLC Player as it was being recorded ;). 4. Keep the included WinTV CD in a safe place. You'll need it to install any updates from the web. 5. The included antenna "telescopes" Happy viewing

Pros: Two of these work in the 1st generation Intel iMac (CoreDuo?). Note that 2 GB is the max for that particular iMac.

Cons: None.