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Customer Review
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 August 2024"Windows 11 Pro Optiplex Core i5 Series Desktop Small Form Desktop Tower PC (Intel Quad Core I5 4570, 8 Gb Ram, 120 SSD), (Renewed)" - a bit of an impulse buy and worth a punt for just £72 - turned out to be an absolute bargain! and a stopgap pc until I do a Win11 PC build (for better graphics/storage options) - I'm still on Windows 7! which is no longer security updated by Microsoft and is becoming more of a risk for online usage and so I saw this Dell mini-PC as a cheap way to familiarise myself with Win11. The images of the item didn't all match (different models I guess). From the description it is exactly what I got apart from the CPU being the slightly faster i5-6500. But I also wanted one with old-style PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports (shown in one of the images) which is just what I got - some of these Dell PCs offered don't have these so may be luck of the draw(?) - mine is the 7040 model - it has no VGA (or DVI) ports but does have 2x Displayports and 1x HDMI port (some models don't have HDMI), and plenty of USB ports (rear has 2x USB2.0 plus 3x USB3.0, front has 2x of each). Working DVD rewriter is a bonus. Delivered the very next day, well packaged. Came with little wifi dongle which set up quick, and a Displayport to VGA cable allowing me to quickly check it out with a backup monitor without having to hunt around for yet another cable. Booted up _very_ quickly. Windows 11 now requires that you have a Microsoft account (hmmm...) and once the (OOB) setup was completed the Windows 11 updates installed ok without any problems. The Win11 key is apparently embedded in the BIOS. Device Manager showed no issues. Event manager showed some issues (unsurprising) but nothing major. There appears to be a TPM2.0 module within (Trusted Platform Module - security feature), hardware which Win11 appears to require. After a week or two of updates a few more things popped up in Event Viewer requiring some internet research to sort. A driver update also seems to have caused the Memory Integrity protection to not function due to "incompatible driver" - as this is related to the onboard graphics I've not fiddled with it(!) - as far as I can ascertain it's not a major problem for us non-commercial users with not-always on PC with 24/7 online connection and is just one of a number of Win11's security features which, by all accounts, is much improved along with its built-in antivirus (so apparently no need for third-party antivirus). Six weeks on and all looks pretty pukka so I am very happy with this purchase.
PS. Should've mentioned that mine came from Level3Computer.
