The refurbished is only that it has an upgrade of the ram to 1gb from 512, the Hard Drive to 250GB, and they included Vista Home Premium instead of Vista Basic to make them sell.
This is a nice little pc, fast enough and includes PCI-e 1.0 and 16x, which is why I bought it. (It runs the fastest GPU video cards :) ) Even though it comes with built in nVidia GeForce 6100 GPU, which is already fast, I use it for folding and average around 1600 points a day. HeHe.
1 posted on
09/02/2008 9:36:35 PM PDT by
papasmurf
To: papasmurf; ShadowAce
Thought you might like to *ping* your list.
2 posted on
09/02/2008 9:40:51 PM PDT by
papasmurf
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To: papasmurf
I wouldn’t trust Lenovo, I heard they have some security vulnerabilities which would allow remote access from China.
3 posted on
09/02/2008 9:42:33 PM PDT by
Little_shoe
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To: texas booster
4 posted on
09/02/2008 9:59:12 PM PDT by
bamahead
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To: papasmurf
Amazing. It is about the same cost to buy this rebuilt unit as it is to get a legal copy of Vista Premium. I seldom build systems anymore just for this reason.
It is an older machine, but with the NVidia card that you added it will fly just fine for FReeping and for folding.
Concerning Chinese built computers, ummm ... don't look now, but nearly everything has its origin on the mainland.
6 posted on
09/02/2008 10:03:57 PM PDT by
texas booster
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