4 years ago i would have said "wow nice pc with serial port" but now that more and more industrial thing have dust proof and secured USB port as on my track car ecu that use USB now i don't know if i wouldn't take the main stream consumer version instead. anyway Shuttle is still a very good small PC brand.

Speaking of TPM modules, I hear the Russians and Chinese will not allow motherboards containing these USA-originated encryption chips to be imported or sold in their countries. i.e manufacturers had to make "special" versions without these chips for those markets. Take from that what you will...