Dell OptiPlex 5070 Micro, Core i5-9500T, 16GB, 2TB SSD

The Dell 5070 Micro is a compact refurbished office PC with a massive 2TB NVMe drive and a low-power i5-9500T. It's great for basic productivity but terrible for gaming. Worth it if you need storage and silence, not if you need performance.

The i5-9500T is a 35W chip, so it sips power and stays quiet, but it's not winning any races. CPU performance sits around the 40th percentile, which means it's fine for spreadsheets, email, and video calls, but it'll chug on heavier workloads. The 2TB NVMe is the real star here, landing in the 92nd percentile. That's a ton of fast storage for a box this size. RAM is the weak link at 16GB, which puts it in the 32nd percentile. It's enough for most office tasks, but you'll feel it if you keep 40 Chrome tabs open. The integrated graphics are what they are, 14th percentile, so don't expect any GPU-accelerated magic.

Stacked against the Lenovo Legion 90YA003GUS or HP OMEN GT16-0364, this Dell looks like a toy. Those are gaming towers with discrete GPUs and way more power. But they're also huge, loud, and expensive. The Apple Mac Studio M5 Max is in another universe entirely, both in performance and price. The Acer Nitro N60 and ASUS ROG G700TF are also gaming-focused, so they crush the Dell in graphics but lose on size and power efficiency. For a pure office machine, the Dell's 2TB NVMe beats what most competitors offer at this price, but its port selection is the worst of the bunch by a wide margin.

At CAD 784, this is a decent deal if you need a small, quiet machine for basic office work. The 2TB NVMe alone is worth a chunk of that price. But you're buying refurbished, so factor in the risk of no long-term warranty. For the same money, you might find a newer mini PC with better ports and a faster CPU, though probably with less storage. If storage is your priority, this is a solid buy. If you want future-proofing, keep looking.

The Dell 5070 Micro is a tiny refurbished office box that knows exactly what it is. A 6-core i5-9500T, 16GB of DDR4, and a 2TB NVMe drive stuffed into a chassis you can hide behind a monitor. It's not flashy, but it's practical for desk work and light multitasking.

Our database puts it at 47.2 out of 100 overall. Home office lands at 53.9 and business at 50.6. Gaming? 8.1. So yeah, don't buy this for anything beyond Minesweeper and maybe some light browser games.

Skip this if you need any kind of graphical performance, whether that's gaming, video editing, or even heavy photo work. The integrated graphics are near the bottom of the barrel. Also skip it if you need lots of USB ports or display outputs, because the port selection is one of the worst we've seen. And if you want a machine that'll still feel snappy in three years, the 40th percentile CPU and 32nd percentile RAM won't age gracefully.

Buy this if you need a tiny, quiet Windows box for basic office work and you value storage space over raw speed. It's perfect for a reception desk, a home office, or a media server. Just don't expect it to do anything graphically demanding, and be ready to live with a limited set of ports.