I imagine these are sort of the luck of the draw. Mine came from Integrated Recycling Technologies, which I think was a different vendor than listed when I ordered it.The unit could just about pass for brand new. It actually was equipped with 16 GB (single stick) RAM, rather than the 8 GB advertised. It included an OEM HP 65 watt power supply. It included the optional third port, which in this case was a VGA port. It includes the OEM WiFi card. Another bonus was that the included keyboard and mouse are a wireless Logitech MK235 combo. It started up right away at the Windows 10 installation screen. This is a clean install of Windows 10, with no bloatware other than a trial copy of Office from Microsoft (which is optional to install). After enabling TPM in the BIOS, I was able to install Windows 11 (by visiting the Microsoft website to upgrade).What's not included? Mine lacked a hard drive caddy and the SATA cable, along with the screws that would secure it. This is not really needed given that there is a second M2 SSD socket; however, there is no screw to hold a second M2 drive--you'll have to find one.The unit itself runs fast and stays cool. It boots in just a couple seconds. It seems solid and very well built. The fan is only just barely audible. It seems just as speedy as the most recent, high end models, at least for routine tasks that most will use it for.If I had to describe anything negative, they would be trivial. Without an external antenna, WiFi reception is weak.  (for example, it would not receive a signal in a place where a Raspberry Pi 4 does. ) However, there are ports to easily add external antennas.As for being "renewed," I think that's questionable (other than having the hard drive wiped and the system reset). The mother board battery did not appear to have been replaced. There was a very thin layer of dust inside and on the fan blades of the CPU cooler that could be easily blasted off with canned air (the point being that if it were renewed, it would take all but a second or two to do this). It was pack well and shipped by FedEx, which I think must use hamsters because I could track its glacial progress across the northern tier of states, arriving several days after the last expected day and with Amazon tracking data showing each day that it was due by 8pm.I was easily able to create a dual boot system and install Home Assistant on a second drive I placed into the M2 slot and turn it into a dedicated Home Assistant server, running Hassio OS. In fact, being able to boot into Windows made it simple.  I could download the new OS in Windows and flash it onto the new drive with balenaEtcher. Flashing formatted the new disk, as well. I then changed the boot drive order in the BIOS, checked the box to allow “legacy,” and set the option to automatically reboot in the event of power failure.This is a good option to consider in place of a NUC, generic Chinese NUC, or Raspberry Pi. Home Assistant is significantly faster than on the latter, it’s not much more expensive, and it’s very solid physically and robust.