To appease you, if you look hard, you'll find refurbs for many different desktops and laptops from all sorts of manufactures. As for seeing "lots" of TouchSmarts, I will say that the demand for TouchSmarts is probably not as great as it would be for your typical notebook or desktop PC, so inventories of refurbs may take longer to work through.

Many of these refurb TouchSmart PCs may not have had issues, but even those that did probably experienced something common and have been easily fixed. I, and many others I know, have had great success with refurbished products. You'll have to weight the risk vs. the potential savings and decide if the increased risk is worth it to you.

The model numbers for the TouchSmarts vary based on the build components, but anything starting with IQ8xx or IQ5xx is current model, the difference between those two being the screen size.

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You may be seeing a lot of refurbs because HP got a bad batch of harddrives. I have just been through the nighmare of having a complete crash because of one. Thank goodness I had good back up and a wonderful techie to help me. We were up all night last night reloading everything. HP does not pay for the work if you do it yourself but they do get you the new HD.