I was leery about buying a refurbished computer. But my worries were unfounded, this was well worth the purchase. After reading some of the other reviews I was kind of worried about what I would receive, but mine worked perfect out of the box. I do not run Windows on the machine currently I put Linux on it to use as a network attached storage / web server / media server. It's currently fitting my needs and I keep finding new things that I could put on there and it's handling all of it without any problems, so it's worth buying.