The product is assembled and is not really a bad buy for the price I paid  and the tasks I need it to perform.  I would have rated it higher except the product arrived in dubious condition for a product advertised as refurbished.  Despite the fact that the external packaging was pristine and the fact that the product was adequately protected and packaged for shipping, the computer's external casing was not properly in place to the point that the disk driver was shoved back about 1/2 to 3/4 inch into the unit and couldn't even open to accept a disk.  I considered returning the computer because I was afraid that if I fixed it myself and it still didn't work I would be blamed for the problem and denied a refund.  However, I decided that I would risk it and took the cover off, repositioned the  DVD driver so it could operate, and reassembled to unit's cover to see if it would indeed work.Then to my amazement, when plugging everything in in preparation to start the computer up, I found the the mouse USB way very badly bent and would not fit into the USB port.  I had to bend it back into a usable shape with a pair of pliers to get it to slide into the adapter and make a proper connection.When I finally fired it up, I found that although everything seems to be working properly, Windows has a warning on the screen that my Windows software is not Genuine.  As of right now I have not yet been able to resolve that particular issue, but the computer is at least operating and performing the tasks that I purchased it to do.