Pros: Ion with vdpau enabled will play 1080p just fine and run both of my monitors: 1920x1200 and 1280x1024 using dvi and hdmi. spdif in/out using the 3.5mm headphone jack Runs quiet and relatively cool mounted to the back of my monitor Lots of usb ports.

Cons: Only 1 so-dimm slot and the mini pci-e is taken by the wireless card. These seem to show up DOA quite often.

Overall Review: If you have heat issues, RMA immediately. This seem to have a problem with either the heatsink or mainboard overheating due to manufacturing defects. My replacement runs perfectly while the first would overheat and shut down constantly. This took at least 8 hours (I left it running over night) to build wine dep and wine after cloning the git hub--don't expect to do **any** heavy computing. There are drivers for using the GPU core for computation, but I've only found proof-of-concept type applications. It would be really nice if I could offload audio/video encoding to it. There are two issues with out-of-box Ubuntu 10.10. The gstreamer-pulse plugin is broken and causes Totem to crash and vdpau needs to be added from repository. Both VLC and mplayer have the latter built-in, but they don't ship with 10.10. These are not hardware issues. Please check this first if you are having problems. OS: Ubuntu 10.10, 10.04

Pros: It is pretty fast on a usb 2 interface. No bloatware installed.

Cons: The open/close mechanism is horrible. It became stuck open the first time I used it. After a week of trying, it closed only to become stuck again. I got it open again, but that was it for the mechanism. It appears to be permanent now. This thing still works, but I'm very disappointed. Case makes it about twice as thick as the usb plug. It's also about wider by half width. This makes for the largest drive I've owned.

Overall Review: There is a small hole on the back side of the case, which I assumed was a manual release like a CD drive. Well, it's not. I cracked the case inserting a paper clip.

Pros: Price is right. There are a lot of ports. ION will handle dual displays: DVI and HDMI. I haven't tried the combined spdif 3.5mm headphone jack All hardware compatible with Ubuntu 1004.

Cons: Only 1 SO-Dimm slot. mini PCI-E is taken up by wifi card. No blue tooth. No additional sata ports on board or external. It loses 2 eggs for the cooling. You will have to remove the heatsink and reapply thermal compound. It came with a 1mm thick pad on the cpu that wasn't even touching the heatsink. My HD is idle at 44*C and the memory is hot to the touch.

Overall Review: I had to screw on the heatsink in reverse. It's numbered; go 4,2,3,1. This tightens down the portion over the cpu where it has contact issues first, then the gpu then the other side. Idles cpu 19/34 and gpu 42*C. I have this mounted via VESA on the back of a 25.5" monitor which might cause some of the heating issues. The ION has stepping but the atom doesn't?

Pros: It's rather light and compact for a full size keyboard + number pad. 13 multimedia keys are a plus. The dongle plus keyboard works in bios. It also seems sturdy. Range is very good. I haven't been able to test more than 10 feet through a wall, but that is enough I would think.

Cons: Typing is rather noisy. Indicator lights do not work: battery, num lock, caps lock. The key layout is a bit strange: Home, Pg Up/Dn, End are at the last column of the alphanumeric side. Number pad is nonstandard, but trivial to get used to. Insert, Delete, Prt Srn, etc share the top row with the function keys.

Overall Review: I might have to RMA for the lights but I wish I would have bought this keyboard a long time ago. No more stuck keys do to beer and food. Construction is solid.

Pros: Fast and cheap

Cons: I have a heating problem. This thing is sitting at 45* C idle. It's installed in a netbox with the cover removed.

Overall Review: My ion gpu is idel at 42 and the atom 330 @ 37. I kept getting lock-ups and restarts. After fiddling with the heat sink I added the HD monitor and found the real problem. If it gets up to 48* C it will stop I/O. I'm really surprised about this. I don't konw if it's the fault of the drive or the way I have it monted. I'm waiting for Seagate to get back to me. I'm thinking I should have gone with a small 1 platter drive instead.

Pros: Large and fast for 2.5" form factor. Got a nice discount which put this right at $50. Quieter than my fan.

Cons: Only owned it 1 day. I'll have to get back to you guys on this.

Overall Review: Disk Utility benchmark in Ubuntu reports: min read/write 41.8/42.1 MB/s max read/write 88.5/117.5 MB/s avg read/write 70.3/86.9 MB/s avg access time 17.8 ms It also reports the RPM at 5799. This might be the last track or perhaps I got the turbo version by mistake.