Suprisingly small, perfect for light usage

Pros: - Surprisingly small - I was expecting something closer to the size of a mac mini, but this is significantly smaller.

• Extremely fast and easy to assemble, at least once you get the bottom unscrewed (more on that below).
• Solid construction: I'm confident that it can take a bit of abuse and keep on running smoothly.
• Fast enough CPU & GPU for basic Office/Internet usage and possibly some light gaming.
• All USB ports are 3.0 - I'm not sure why so many systems still ship with USB 2 plugs.
• Super-fast boot time: only 1-2 seconds on the BIOS, and then only a few seconds more to get to the Windows desktop.
• Acceptable fan noise at full load: audible but not loud.

Cons: - Bottom screws were difficult to remove initially - they were small enough that I had to use a smaller screwdriver, but they were in so tightly that I had use needle-nose pliers to grip and turn the screwdriver (without the pliers, it just hurt my fingers and didn't actually turn the screw.

• Drivers came on a CD. There is no CD drive on this computer, making that fairly useless.
• Windows 8 didn't recognize the WiFi card so I had to find an ethernet cable to to get it online to download the drivers.
• Although certainly within the acceptable range, the fan was a little louder than I expected when under a moderate workload.
• It initially only recognized half of my RAM, similar to what another user reported. Removing and re-seating the RAM fixed this issue.
• The only 1/8 inch audio output is the headphones plug on the front. So if you're going to be using this with "regular" speakers, you'll have to have a cable sticking out of the front all of the time.
• Only 2 USB ports on the back. So if you want to plug in a keyboard, mouse, and printer, you'll need to either plug one of them into the front, just like with the audio (or buy a hub, I suppose.)
• I'd prefer to see higher speed RAM supported since that's a bit of a graphics bottleneck, but I don't know if that is within Gigabyte's control or not.

Overall Review: Overall, I'm very happy with this system. Even though I listed a lot of Cons, none of them were a big deal and the Pros far outweigh them.

The computer gets warm to the touch but certainly not hot.

My build included a 240GB Crucial M500 mSATA SSD and 2x4GB G.Skill DDR3L 1333 RAM - faster than this system supports but less expensive then the slower RAM.

I set this one up for a family member who will mostly be using it for email and Facebook, and it's more than adequate for her needs. I think I might just build one of those for myself once they release an updated Kaveri edition.