Refurbished Desktop Deals - Desktop Packages and PC Deals

Dell Financial Services discounts refurbished items sitewide via coupons, as listed below. Plus, many items receive free shipping; otherwise it adds $17.99. That's among the strongest discounts we've seen on these models from Dell this year, although it took 30% off sitewide last month. Dell refurbished systems are covered by a 100-day Dell warranty. Deal ends May 30.

• $125 off any refurbished Dell laptop of $300 or more via code "DELL$125LAP"
• $100 off any refurbished Dell desktop of $225 or more via code "DELL$100DESK"
• 25% off sitewide via code "DELL25ANY"

Badger Auctions via eBay offers the factory-refurbished Vizio Intel Ivy Bridge Core i7 2.3GHz 24" All-In-One Desktop PC, model no. CA24-A2, for $699.99 with free shipping. That's $619 under the lowest total price we could find for a new unit. (For further comparison, we saw a new unit 24" Vizio AIO PC with a Core i5 CPU, no SSD or graphics card, and half the RAM for $50 less last winter.) Features include an Intel Core i7-3610QM 2.3GHz Ivy Bridge quad-core processor, 24" 1920x1080 (1080p) LED-backlit LCD, 8GB RAM, 1TB hard drive with 32GB SSD, NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE 1GB video card, 802.11n wireless, Bluetooth 4.0, webcam, and Windows 7 Home Premium. A 90-day Vizio warranty applies. Deal ends July 18 at 2 pm ET.

For in-store pickup only, Micro Center offers the refurbished HP Pavilion AMD 20-b010 AMD A4 1.4GHz All-in-One 20" Desktop PC, model no. H3Y89AA#ABA, for $299.99. That's tied with our mention from two weeks ago as the best price we've seen for any Pavilion All-in-One PC. (It's also $120 under the lowest price we could find for a new unit elsewhere.) Features include an AMD E1-1200 1.4GHz dual-core processor, 20" 1600x900 LED-Backlit LCD, 4GB RAM, 500GB 7200 rpm hard drive, AMD Radeon HD 7310 graphics, DVD burner, 802.11n wireless, webcam, two USB 3.0 ports, and Windows 8.

A 90-day warranty applies, although it's unclear who backs it.

MOBILESHARK via eBay again offers the refurbished Dell XPS 8500 Intel Ivy Bridge Core i7 3.4GHz Desktop PC for $699.99 with free shipping. That ties last week's mention of a refurbished unit as the lowest total price we've seen for any Dell XPS with 16GB RAM and a 2TB hard drive. (It's a current price low for a refurb by $200.) It features an Intel Core i7-3770 3.4GHz Ivy Bridge quad-core processor, 16GB RAM, 2TB 7200 rpm hard drive, NVIDIA Geforce GT620 1GB graphics card, DVD burner, 802.11n wireless, Bluetooth 4.0, Gigabit Ethernet, media card reader, keyboard, mouse, and Windows 8 64-bit. Deal ends June 16 at 7 pm ET.

Note: A 90-day warranty applies, although it's unclear who supports it.