I built a Shuttle X27D for my parents. It has a 160GB SATA 3 drive,
slim dvd drive, 2GB ram, 23" Acer flat screen, and Edimax Wireless card.

Build time: just over 15 minutes from out of box to being online. I was
TOTALLY!!! amazed. 9.04 is pretty nice. Nothing super like "I HAVE to
HAVE it" type of thing, but it seems whatever work they did under the
hood has made it just work better - and faster.

The Shuttle has a Atom 330 1.6 duel core cpu and while its not screaming
fast - its more than fast enough for any daily use my parents will ever
give it :D

I used my sons logitec wireless keyboard and mouse and I'm getting my
parents a ergonomic one when I get there.