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PLEASE READ: DO NOT BUY AS OF NOVEMBER 2015. ALL OTHER REVIEWS ARE FOR THIS ITEM WITH WINDOWS 8.1 AND IT NOW HAS WINDOWS 10. Hi. I'm an IT Professional with over 10 years of experience. When it comes to computers, I know what I'm doing. Keeping this in mind, I cannot recommend this product at all. The number 1 reason this is a DO NOT BUY is that Windows 10 is now on it. This affects the item in 2 ways. First, the version of Windows 10 they put on it is from July 2015. That means that the minute you get it...you'll be prompted to install a MAJOR update to Windows 10. After you install that major update, you get caught in an endless reboot cycle where Windows won't be able to start. The second way that this item is affected by Windows 10 is that driver support for hardware is not where it needs to be. More on this below. The number 2 reason this is a DO NOT BUY is that the driver version for the Intel graphics card that this comes with is bound to Windows 10 and it DOES NOT have an overscan capability. This means that if you have an older TV that doesn't allow you to shrink or expand the picture, you're out of luck. Nvidia has overscan capabilities. AMD/ATI has overscan capabilities. Intel doesn't. So, when I hooked mine up via HDMI to my Sharp LCD TV which is an older model, I couldn't see the entire bottom windows bar including the time. No amount of resolution changes would fix things. I updated to the most recent Intel driver using the Intel driver update utility taking me from version 10 which is installed to version 15 which is current. Still no dice on actually getting overscan fixed on my TV. The Intel utility also has NO ability to set a custom resolution....this might be the straw that breaks the camels back for some of you...because not all TV's have standard resolution. There is NO way to set a custom/standard resolution with the Intel graphics driver on this thing. The number 3 reason this is a DO NOT BUY is that it doesn't detect 802.11n like it states it does. I have a router that broadcasts 802.11a/b/g and 802.11n simultaneously. I have 5 devices on 802.11n and many legacy devices on the older 802.11/a/b/g. Upon first boot, this thing couldn't detect my 802.11n network. I went to manually update the driver because the one installed is dated 2013...but even that didn't fix things. I ended up having to connect wireless to my legacy connection 802.11a/b/g. Trying to find a driver to upgrade on Realtek's website is like trying to find a specific needle in a haystack of needles...it's a horrible website and there is no link to the wireless chipset that this item has. I ended up extracting the driver from an HP driver package (because Dell tries to install a wrapper package with their utility) and upgraded the RTL8723bs wireless chipset with a current driver instead of one from 2013. Still no go with the newer driver...it does not detect 802.11.n broadcasting. Bottom line, this is the second line of FALSE ADVERTISING from Quantum Byte...the first one being that this thing ships with Windows 8.1. If you're looking for something that is plug and play easy...this is NOT it. You'll plug, try to play, update, and brick it thanks to Windows 10 (see the screenshot attached for the endless reboot loop message...this is AFTER a complete hardware reset/os flash). Until Quantum Bytes figures out that Windows 10 is not stable enough to use as a base operating system on this specific device because of driver support, it will be one of the worst buys for a micro PC on the market.