I bought a 'refurbished' HP on here, and it was great...for a few months. Then started having problems, and after about 5 months, I finally had to render it unusable.This one has been great. Been going strong for about 8 months now. Yeah, I know it's a refurbished comp that's about 10 yrs old, but man, this thing is like brand new. Lightning fast (3.4 Ghz with 32 GB RAM) and 1 TB hard drive.So far-so good. I love it.