Best Desktop with Price Under $1000 and Processor Type Intel Core 2 Duo

The HP Touchsmart IQ526 Refurbished All-in-One PC is the perfect desktop to make you more productive whether you’re at home or in the office. *

The HP Touchsmart IQ526 Refurbished All-in-One PC is the perfect desktop to make you more productive whether you’re at home or in the office. *

A unique "buckle" design makes it easy to change a graphic, sound, or modem cards without tools. *

A unique "buckle" design makes it easy to change a graphic, sound, or modem cards without tools. *

The configuration of the Lenovo ThinkCentre M58p PC is solid, and it produced good results in our tests. It's a solid little unit that sits flat on a desk, and a monitor can be placed on top of it. *

The computer itself is grey and black, and designed for maximum efficiency over pretty much everything else. The ThinkCentre M58p is pretty attractive in that respect; despite its high performance processor, it doesn't cost all that much to run. The handle makes it very easy to move around, and the screwless design means that technicians don't need to carry around a toolkit just to swap out a hard drive. *

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Great looking all-in-one with a forward-thinking remote, but could be let down by its basic starting specs

The bottom line: The heart of Lenovo's IdeaCentre A600 is in the right place, offering a 21.5-inch LCD-based all-in-one for less than $800. But a faster competitor and a careless design turns us off from this particular A600 configuration. You might consider a different A600 build if you can live with the design, but we can't recommend the $749 version.

The display is otherwise strong: It delivers powerful saturation and pretty good contrast levels for gaming and Blu-ray movie watching (a built-in Blu-ray player is a common feature for all-in-ones with screens of this size). Excellent display. *

The display is otherwise strong: It delivers powerful saturation and pretty good contrast levels for gaming and Blu-ray movie watching (a built-in Blu-ray player is a common feature for all-in-ones with screens of this size). Excellent display. *

The bottom line: The heart of Lenovo's IdeaCentre A600 is in the right place, offering a 21.5-inch LCD-based all-in-one for less than $800. But a faster competitor and a careless design turns us off from this particular A600 configuration. You might consider a different A600 build if you can live with the design, but we can't recommend the $749 version.