Dell OptiPlex 5090 Black

A tiny office tank with a monster 2TB SSD and plenty of RAM. It's a storage king, but the weak graphics and older CPU mean it's strictly for spreadsheets and web browsing.

What surprised us most is the storage. A 2TB NVMe drive in a refurbished business mini-PC at this price lands in the 92nd percentile of our database. That's best-in-class territory and means you can basically forget about external drives for a long time. The CPU is a different story. The i7-10700T is a low-power chip, and its 33rd percentile ranking shows its age. It's fine for Office and web apps, but it'll chug on anything CPU-intensive. The integrated graphics are one of the weakest we've seen, so don't even think about gaming.

The obvious elephant in the room is the Apple Mac mini M4 Pro. That machine will run circles around this OptiPlex in raw performance and efficiency, but it also costs a lot more and locks you into macOS. If you need Windows and a tiny footprint on a tighter budget, the Dell makes sense. The HP OmniDesk is another direct competitor in the same budget office space, but you'd be hard-pressed to find one with a 2TB SSD and 32GB of RAM at this price. For pure office work, this Dell is a value champ.

For $580, this is a solid deal if you need a no-nonsense office PC with tons of storage. The 2TB SSD alone is a huge value add. You're not paying for performance you won't use, and the 32GB of RAM means this thing will feel snappy for years of basic tasks. It's worth it for the right person.

The Dell OptiPlex 5090 Micro is a tiny desktop that knows exactly what it is, and that's refreshing. It's not trying to be a gaming rig or a creative workstation. This thing is built to sit quietly under a monitor, chew through spreadsheets, handle a dozen browser tabs, and run your business apps without breaking a sweat. The one thing to know? It packs a surprising amount of storage and RAM into a chassis you can hide behind a picture frame.

We're looking at a 10th-gen Intel i7-10700T with 32GB of DDR4 and a massive 2TB NVMe SSD. That's a serious productivity combo for a machine this small. The integrated Intel UHD 630 graphics are, frankly, a letdown for anything beyond basic display duties, but for its intended audience of office warriors and home productivity users, this is a clean, capable Windows 11 Pro machine.

If you're looking for any kind of gaming performance or a machine for creative work like video editing, this isn't it. Go get a desktop with a dedicated GPU instead, even a budget one will blow this out of the water. This is strictly a business and web browsing machine.

Buy this if you need a tiny, quiet, reliable Windows machine for office work and you value storage space above all else. The 2TB SSD and 32GB of RAM are a killer combo for productivity. Just make sure you have a DisplayPort monitor or an adapter handy, and don't expect to do any gaming or video editing.