This fits easily on my desk, freeing up a lot of room I previously spent wrestling with a laptop and monitor setup. It is silent, I haven't heard it make a noise since I've received it. I have the base model but it's lightning fast with nary a stutter to be found.I'm strictly a PC person until I bought this and now I'm not sure how I go back. Things are just intuitive and run fast, and for a compact desktop form factor, I thought the price on this was pretty reasonable considering what you get. I'm sure this won't be new to any person in the Mac ecosystem but was a little bummed not to get a keyboard or mouse with a desktop computer. Will have to add an Apple wireless keyboard at a later time.