The computer was exactly to specs. The"refurb" seems to be a factory reset and stickers placed everywhere to hide scratches. The stickers seemed high quality, but I would hope they only put them on laptops that had really bad defects/scratches. I was tempted to take them off. Glad I didn't. The battery was a failure. Pretty sure it was the original and could only go 20 min with normal usage. If you don't care about the battery and like the specs absolutely get this. If you need battery power I would pass.