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(More customer reviews)I was happy with the nearly-silent PC I built with an Intel D510MO Atom motherboard. It was inexpensive, ran Ubuntu Linux without issue and was the perfect platform for casual web surfing while listening to music without annoying computer fan noise. Except... the DM510MO board only has a VGA video output and I really wanted to use my monitor's HDMI input. I thought the Zotac NM10-ITX was the solution: It had the same Atom processor as the Intel board plus an HDMI video ouput, SPDIF audio outputs and a Mini PCI Express wireless network adapter. But the HDMI output is worthless! It is only capable of 1024x768 and appears as a second "Laptop" display under both Ubuntu and Windows 7. I think it is reasonable to assume that an HDMI output supports full HD, but evidently Zotac does not agree with me. I was impressed that the WiFi adapater uses an Atheros chipset, but the Ubuntu 10.04 and Fedora 13 distros I tried did not support it. Zotac supplies a Windows driver for the wireless adapter. Before buying this board I was a Zotac fan, but after this experience I will shy away from new Zotac products that do not have good customer reviews. That said, this board may work well for you if you plan to use Windows 7, standard VGA video out and are not trying to build a home theater PC.
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