HP Elite 8100 SFF/Desktop PC Intel Core i5-650 Dual Core 3.20GHz 4GB RAM 250GB HDD Windows 7 Professional

I needed a basic computer for my workroom. I just wanted something cheap to run a browser and play videos. I picked this one up for just over £100, reloaded it with Linux Mint and it works like a dream. Honestly, for what I'm doing with it, there's no appreciable speed difference between it and my very expensive fancy computer in the office.

I am addicted to Windows 7 Pro, so we bought this in the Morgan January Sale to replace my old refurbished HP desktop computer (which was still running on a "tweaked" Windows XP.) This HP 8100 Elite came in at under £150 including VAT & delivery - so very pleased to get such a bargain. It has more ports and power than I currently need - but good to know it can handle more in the future. One of the 4 rubber feet was missing, but Customer Services soon sent a replacement in the post, so all sorted now.

We purchased this whilst it was on special offer so under £200. Arrived very quickly and was well packaged. Exterior condition was a little dirty and a few marks on it here and there. So after a quick once over with a rag, we fired her up and downloaded MS Windows 10 (free from MS). After this loaded we are left with a very stable good performing PC. If we want to add a bigger hard drive then we can easily and very cheaply. It would work well as a dedicated home PC or as we are using it as a work station PC. It's also very quiet. The fact that the PC was running Windows 7 Pro had a big effect meaning we could update to Windows 10 at no extra cost.