I have more knowledge and experience with computers than the average consumer, and I hate paying a premium price for the latest and greatest, when it will quickly become yesterday's technology. My old PC had reached the end of any possible improvements, so I went "dumpster-diving" for a bargain PC. In my opinion, solid state disks (SSD) have been the biggest performance boost for PCs, and that was a minimum requirement for a replacement PC. There were a lot of refurbished Dell PCs available, and I found this one to be the most desirable. Lots of RAM, a large SSD, an i7 series CPU, and a really low-end video/graphics controller. Another search, and I found a very nice graphics card for under $90. For about $450 total, I have a vastly more capable PC. It's not a gaming PC, it's previous generation technology, but it does everything I need much faster than before. I consider it a really good value.