Zotac ZBOXHD-ID40-PLUS Intel Atom D525 CPU 1.8 GHz Dual-Core Next-generation NVIDIA ION w/ 2GB RAM, 250G HDD, WiFi All-in-One Mini PC

Pros: Very small size, very cheap, very quiet. I bought this as a 'test' system to install in my bedroom before getting them for the rest of the TVs in the house. Tested a 720p mkv file in VLC last night and it was perfect, although youtube was not so good fullscreen-probably a hardware acceleration issue with Flash on Linux

Cons: Horrible WIFI. Not a big deal for me, because I have multiple Cat6 drops in every room, but I tested it anyways and I was only getting 500kb/s with connections dropping and reconnecting (WRT350N AP is on far side of house, WPA2 using AES). My MacBook Pro 3 feet away was getting 10mb/s over wifi.

Overall Review: HDMI Audio is not super easy to configure for the layman - but this is not the fault of ZOTAC, linux is a highly configurable beast and exposes more 'stuff' to the user. Instead of fooling around I googled it and found all kinds of things saying to mess with modprobe.d files but I gave up and fooled with it anyways. I figured it out in about 5 minutes - in ubuntu 11.10 if you go into sound settings (go to Hardware and Output tabs) there's more than just 'HDMI Output' - I had 4 additional (n1 n2 n3 n4) options as opposed to just 'HDMI output', just find the correct one in the dropdown and you're done (mine was n2). Will come in handy

Pros: Just works out of the box. All you have to do is plug it in, and install your favourite OS and Media Center software. I went with Ubuntu/XBMC, and 1080p h264/mkv video plays without flaws with only 5% CPU usage. Its a little more expensive than other systems, but it mounted flawlessly to my TV and only has 2 wires: power and HDMI. Makes it easy to have a real slick looking setup.

Cons: I wish this bundle had a tiny solid state drive instead; just enough for an OS. Most people are using this for an HTPC and I think that would have made it even better.

Overall Review: Very happy with my purchase.

Pros: size of course it the biggest pro for this unit but its also fast. Installed Win7 with no issues - very smooth install - very responsive at this point anyway. Let see what happens when I finish all my installations.

Cons: the blue light may be an issue - too bright - if you trying to watch a movie in the dark. It could probably be turned of...

Pros: - Nice compact case - Lots of ports - Wifi n - Plays 1080p video without hiccups

Cons: Overheats severely during video playback with XBMC on Windows 7. Apparently, this is a known issue with Zotac GPUs. System overheats and freezes about 1hr into playback. Sent in for RMA, hopefully the replacement works better.

Pros: Compact,powerful handles HD video without a problem

Cons: very difficult to get sound working on Kubuntu/Ubuntu Linux you must install pulseaudio and mess with a few settings. Works great with XBMC media center

Overall Review: I bought this product believing it had a DVD+R/RW drive based on newegg's advertisement "Zotac ZBOXHD-ID40-PLUS Intel Atom D525 CPU 1.8 GHz Dual-Core Next-generation NVIDIA ION DVD+R/RW w/ 2GB RAM, 250G HDD, WiFi All-in-One Mini PC". Once i opened up the pc, i knew this machine could never house a dvd drive cause of space. I was disappointed, but it wasn't enough for me to return the product, i didnt deduct any eggs for this since this was the fault of neweggs advertising and not the product itself.