Pros: Great feature set and decent amount of power for the price. It really does make a great HTPC, not directly out of the box but after installing a few extra programs. Good connectivity options like HDMI, eSATA and a bunch of USB ports. Fully featured Win7 Home Premium included. Very low power usage and heat output, and inaudible in an AV cabinet 7 feet away from the couch.

Cons: Typical bloatware makes a more pronounced impact on this system, but just removing McAfee made a huge difference, and there wasn't all that much. Built in Windows programs (Media Center, IE) run a bit slower than 3rd party options. Analog audio jacks in front are a bit weird. Acer update tool could be great for delivering important graphics driver updates but is useless. Keyboard and mouse aren't high quality but can't complain (don't use them much). Power light and SPDIF indicator are annoying to look at. Power switch is a bit tricky.

Overall Review: Installed MS Security Essentials, Flash 10.1 beta, Boxee and Google Chrome with some addons to make big screen browsing easier. Also updated Ion and HDMI drivers from NVIDIA immediately after setting up and removing bloatware. Hooked up to an Onkyo TX-SR707 receiver and a Samsung 58" plasma, I can watch full HD clips through Boxee or online. I had an old Media Center remote receiver that installed effortlessly into Windows and the receiver's remote using the Microsoft code allows me to use Boxee keyboard and mouse free. In short, setup was pretty effortless and I continue to enjoy the setup and find more and more ways to make it even better.

Pros: It looks nice, there's room for 3 80mm fans, enough internal drive bays, the pre-made side panel is helpful. I have two cold cathodes which fit perfectly in between the side of the case and the bottom of the drive bays.

Cons: PSU stinks (i changed it), metal is pretty flimsy, paint is easily scratched, front fan is harder to change than it should be. It's also pretty loud for when you're trying to build a quiet system.

Overall Review: If you have this case and want to change the fan, take your side panels off and disconnect your power/reset buttons and leds. There are 3 screws on each side of the case, undo them and the front comes off. You can then unscrew the fan. (Be careful, the metal here is easily bendable.) Then, hold it on while screwing it back in. Done!

Pros: Plugged it in, autoconfigured and updated itself and after changing a few settings, I was up and running in a matter of minutes. Netgear control panel is simple to use. Great throughput on both wired and wireless (yes, this router absolutely does 300Mbps). I wasn't expecting to use the USB storage but it works really well. Lots of other stuff that I'm not using but looks interesting (guest network, bandwidth monitoring).

Cons: I couldn't figure out why some PCs were only running 100Mbps over ethernet; turned out to be the cables. With wireless, my laptop needed some settings changed in device manager (fat channel) to get full 300mbps, rather than 144. Neither one of those was the router's fault.

Overall Review: It's been rock solid for a few months now and would recommend it to anyone. Also a defective unit doesn't warrant a negative review, you're supposed to be rating the product itself!

Pros: Installed in seconds into a Dell E1505 and provided an immediate and drastic performance boost (reduced boot time by ~30 seconds compared to 1GB and Vista turned from sluggish to super snappy). The laptop's owner was very pleased.

Cons: DDR2 prices are on the rise for obvious reasons. No big deal, it's worth the price.

Overall Review: Upgraded BIOS before installing the RAM to make sure it worked alright. It isn't running at full speed because the laptop can't support it, but it works perfectly well nonetheless.

Pros: Had this power supply running a variety of different systems since December 2005 and it hasn't skipped a beat. Not once has it failed to turn on nor has it caused any instability in any of the computers it's powered. Sleeved cables are nice and the two fans run very quietly.

Cons: Wattage rating is inflated, way too many cables (not sure if it could even handle having every plug being used anyway), fans don't have that much airflow (but it's enough). From what I can tell, this is the exact same model that was produced 4+ years ago, so it's an aged design and the power efficiency is poor compared to modern units.

Overall Review: Even if you have to spend a bit more, I would go with an 80 PLUS power supply like an Antec EarthWatts. I replaced the Thermaltake with the 380W model and it did use less electricity.

Pros: After about 5 months, I'm still amazed by this monitor's huge screen real estate and especially the price. Usually buying cheap means getting cheap quality - but this is an Acer. I don't notice any sort of ghosting, and playing games/watching movies on this monitor look spectacular. Speaking of that, it's got 5 presets for brightness, contrast, etc. depending on if you're viewing text, movies, photos, as well as a standard setting and a user defined setting. The slim bezel looks very nice as well. Not to mention the setup was as simple as plugging it in. (wall mountable as well)

Cons: The stand may not be the strongest, but it will hold the monitor up and will be fine if you don't shake it on purpose. The only adjustment is tilt. Whenever you turn the monitor's power on, an Acer logo fades in before showing the display, which gets annoying. Waking the screen up from standby also takes a second or two more than I'm used to. And of course, it's not for professional photo work.

Overall Review: Great monitor at a bargain basement price. You can't really complain.