HP EliteDesk 800 G2 Mini Business Desktop PC, Intel Quad-Core i7-6700T up to 3.1G, 16G DDR4, 512GB SSD, VGA, DP Port, Windows 11 Professional (Renewed)

When I bought this, I was expecting a dusty, used, 2nd hand, computer and keyboard. Opening the professionally packed box, there was a brand new keyboard, mouse, USB wifi, USB Bluetooth, and brand new looking computer. There was not a spec of dust inside the computer and it looked like it had never been used. If this had been used, they did an excellent of refurbishing this unit. All diagnostics checked out well and I am very happy with this purchase.

Plugged in and ran perfect. Meets all our needs and is smokin fast. Not hardware or software issues at all - plug it in, get your windows updates (45 minutes), and you can roll. No fancy graphics cards, etc. Comes with a WiFi USB plug in (don't need - wires all the way). Single monitor (has HDMI for two however). Love the small size, and will buy more - compared to the std box, this frees up a LOT of real estate on your desk.

Okay. I ordered two of the refurbished HP EliteDesk 800 G2s from Amazon. I ordered an i7-6700T and an i5-6500T. I started with the i5. Hard drive not found. I opened it up since I have worked on hundreds of computers (Dell and HP) just like these. It has a SATA SSD in it. I tried making sure the SATA ribbon cable was properly connected to the drive and motherboard. In the process, I snapped the plastic retainer on the socket for the ribbon cable on the motherboard. I cannot get that part anywhere! I then tried the i7. Same problem. No hard drive detected. I opened it, saw the OEM SATA drive. Tried making sure the cable was connected and snapped the stupid tiny piece of plastic again. I have never had a single one snap out of the thousands of machines I fixed while running my business. This day, I broke two! Not only that, but the ribbon cable came out of the SATA end at the same time. I have replacements for those, though. I decided to pop an M.2 NVME drive in, instead of using the SATA SSD. I used my O & O imaging software to pull the Windows 10 Pro from the SATA SSD. I was unable to push it to the M.2 NVME drive. I noticed the firmware on the motherboard was from 2016. I downloaded and installed the 12/2020 BIOS firmware and installed it from a thumb drive through the BIOS utility. I was now able to image the M.2 NVME in the computer with the image obtained from the SATA SSD. I installed and all went well after that! The machine is very fast. I am very pleased with it overall. I'll keep the i7 even though I had to provide an M.2 NVME SSD to get it working, but the i5 is definitely going back. I like Amazon's refund policy. I've been burned in some form or fashion every time I've bought a refurb of anything. (Really all your doing is buying someone else's problem.) I will stick with only buying NEW from now on. If you know what you're doing, this is probably worth it. Just as an aside, these HP EliteDesk 800 G2 minis are nearly identical in every way to the Dell Optiplex 3070 mini. I found myself accidentally going to Dells website to look for the Support Assist software instead of HP's site. LOL

I wanted a powerful, but small and quiet machine to run a Minecraft server. This thing runs it like a champ.

Worked on arrival. Runs dual monitors with DP to HDMI cords on the back. Peppy little thing. No issues with the Windows 10 update or adding Office 2019. Takes almost no space so I keep it on the desk (that's it under the left monitor if you missed it). No regrets in the change from an all in one with a second monitor. Info said some things had been updated just before shipping so I appreciate seller taking the time to at least turn it on before sending it out.

This computer was great! Would highly recommend for anyone who’s trying to buy something to get you going! Thank you!!

This was a lot different from the "Amazon Renewed" systems I normally get. First the box was clearly old and worn. No problem, it's not new I just want a computer that works. Opening box was a little odd. The computer was wrapped in (not very much) bubble wrap with no tape and was rattling around in the box. There was what appeared to be a new mouse and keyboard in boxes ratting around as well and what appeared to be a reasonably new power supply but it was just thrown in the box - no packing at all. I set up the computer with the power supply and my monitor and - nothing. Dead. As I was packing it up to return I noticed there was only one screw holding it together and all the other fasteners were missing. Can't recommend this.

Customer Service - Mike - was very helpful to us through this whole process. He was friendly and fast to answer any questions we had. We ordered 3 of these computers. 1 worked great and I haven't had any issues with it yet. The other two would not even try to boot windows. The seller sent replacement hard drives for us to try and see if that would fix the problem, but it did not. The seller has been very helpful and kind through this whole process, but this is a product review and the refurbished computers themselves are not worth buying at this price if 2 out of 3 are faulty. I gave 3 stars overall though, because the 1 that is working is nice. Small, compact, and runs without lag.