Tonight I found a thread dedicated to this device in the hardware sub-forum, but seeing your replies here I don't feel so stupid posting here! The last postings in there talked about an atom-based board that otherwise specs roughly the same as this one and same TDP–but for around double the money. :(
In any case, as I mentioned there, I think having a firewall running on a non-Intel instruction-set processor could possibly increase security WRT some processor-specific hacks that go around the OS that have been mentioned on Slashdot, among other places. Any comments on that?
Thanks for the reply, and I'm glad to hear that you guys are at least considering it! :)
Mike