My 5 star rating is all about what you get for the money with this machine.As for details folks shopping for a similar product may be interested in...- This machine can't do 1Gbit throughput between interfaces with pfsense:I needed a replacement for my old small-formfactor machine I had been running pfsense on because I upgraded my internet service to 1Gbit/50Mbit, and the old machine had realtek interfaces which topped out at 275 Mbit. I grabbed this box because of the price point and my budget, and when testing it maxed out just under 600Mbit/50Mbit. With my MacBook Pro directly to the modem I got 1Gbit/50Mbit easy, and when I tested with iperf using UDP from the WAN port of this machine to an ec2 T2.micro I was able to achieve 988Mbit download. Based on this testing I concluded that the celleron in this machine just isn't quite up to the task of routing 1Gbit of traffic between interfaces. During testing I could see that the majority of the CPU time was juggling interrupts and the CPU usage was absolutely maxed out.So my 5 star rating is subjective around my intended use case, because I am fine with the current performance and I plan on dropping the cash for a core i5 or i7 machine later, and then re-purposing this machine. I did want to make people aware that for a common use of these machines (running pfsense) you may have trouble achieving line-rate throughout across the two interfaces.