It's a really good deal.  Great value for the money.  But I can't believe it didn't even come with a dvd burner.  Personally I'm not worried about it,  because it is replacing an old Dell laptop from college to which I had added a Blu-ray writer.  It is reportedly maxed at 8GB of RAM, but I have seen forum posts boasting successful 16GB upgrades,  so I may check that out as well.  Normally I don't purchase a computer with  500GB HDD, but honestly I'm not going to complain about it.  I connected the tower to my main television  as a media center and it does a great job.  The i5 processor converts my dvds to file much faster than my old i3 ever did.  It goes without saying the overall performance leaves nothing to be desired so farSo far,  it's all praise.  The only reason I haven't given it five stars is the lack of a DVD/RW+.  But as I said before,  it was something to easily overcome.  I am happy enthusiast with it that I will purchase others for the other media center televisions.