Zotac ZBOX nano CA320NANO-U C

- Small & silent - Easily streams 1080p video encoded in (that I've tried) h.264 level 4 and MPEG-2 to my TV over HDMI (including audio) - The video part of this (Kabini) APU supports AMD's UVD3 which is supported in mythtv with VDPAU, no special...

Has built-in wifi which I didn't need so would have preferred not to pay for. Oh well.

Works as expected, had to tweak a bit for Linux (this was expected), but once configured works like a charm, can't be beat for the price in my opinion

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Small, silent, reasonably good performance, built-in wifi, plenty of USB ports, eSata port, HDMI, IR receiver, SD reader

Firmware is total ABYSMAL

Better than Atom based unit performance wise ; Being based on an AMD APU is a plus for me. The graphic are better than the base Intel HD Graphics, but not as good as the HD 4000 series ; Dead silent ; Very low power ; Plays casual games fine ; Streams...

This does not seem to be a popular model ; The current situation may make it less than cost effective ; Because it is dead silent, it does get warm

* Better than Atom based unit performance wise, * Being based on an AMD APU is a plus for me. The graphic are better than the base Intel HD Graphics, but not as good as the HD 4000 series. * Dead silent. * Very low power. * Plays casual games fine. *...

* This does not seem to be a popular model. * The current situation may make it less than cost effective. * Because it is dead silent, it does get warm.

Silent, small, quad-core, adequate computing. I put an SSD and 8GB RAM in it. It is cute-sized and effective.

After adding hardware and software it's obviously more expensive.