Lenovo Desktop PC IdeaCentre K230 K5287DW (53594QU) Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 8GB DDR2 1TB HDD NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit

Pros: I've priced this computer out for parts and I couldn't come out cheaper than what I bought it for. Set up was simple. All I had to do was power it. The cableing was nicely zip tied. Reviews mentioned bad, noisy Seagate hard drive but I was suprised to find a quiet Western Digital drive in mine. Whole computer is super quiet. Came with recovery discs. Decent case. Didn't need a screw driver to open the case or to secure/unsecure the PC cards. Everything works. Starts up in 1min 7sec with Vista. Super fast. On board sound card works fine tested with the optical port. Didn't come with junk pre-loaded stuff like HP and Gateway load. Trend Micro pre-loaded works good and has a 90 day trial.

Cons: I still have no idea what I'm going to do with a quad core cpu, 8GB of RAM and 1TB of space. I would've liked an extra SATA cable because I bought a Blu-ray drive separately and that didn't come with a cable. The included DVD drive came with this neat attachment that allowed it to snap on to the bay assembly without any screws but it didn't come with an extra one so I'll need screws for the second drive. The drive has a 35GB restore partition on it AND separate restore discs. Could be a pro or a con for some people. Seems redundant. I don't care because it's a 1TB drive. The restore partition to reload the OS can only be used with the stock keboard which is ugly. Stock mouse and keyboard are PS2 and not USB. I had a a wireless keyboard/mouse anyway. Has floppy, serial and parallel ports (which has no use today really), but no IDE for my old drives. One PCI slot is better than none I guess. My old sound card doesn't work in Vista anyway.

Overall Review: Great computer. I don't mind the small cons all that much. The pros far outweigh the cons. I'm very satisfied with my purchase. I was reluctant on buying a pre-built brand name computer since I wanted to build one but this was too cheap to pass up.

Pros: Comes with recovery disk.

Cons: CPU doesn't support hardware virtualization. Another reviewer said machine was quiet: however, the HDD makes an annoying low thumping noise.

Overall Review: The Lenovo website http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/windows7/ says _all_ their vistahomepremium boxes purchased before 2/2010 are eligible! for the window7 upgrade. As mentioned by another reviewer, the Lenovo site reneges on the upgrade for this model.

Newegg, can you please help your customers with this issue?