IBM ThinkCentre M50 8187 Desktop PC - REFURBISHED

by IBM

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 30.9 pounds
• ASIN: B002HR6D64
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,198 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 16, 2009

Product Description

This product has been Refurbished to perform as new. It comes with 1 Year Limited Warranty
Introducing the ThinkCentre M50 model. This fast, powerful corporate class PC boasts an Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz processor, 1GB of fast DDR RAM and a 40GB hard drive. Connecting external components, such as digital cameras, just got a whole lot easier thanks to the 8 built-in USB ports (2-front, 6-rear).The ThinkCentre M50 model features a tool-free chassis design, which simplifies and enhances maintenance. Mechanical improvements have been made to the overall design of the ThinkCentre PCs, including improved airflow and reduced noise. The ThinkCentre A50 system includes a product recovery program resident on the system hard drive. A hidden service partition will provide preload recovery in the event of loss. Integrated Audio AC '97 Intel Pro 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet RJ-45 Front ports - 2 x USB Back ports - 6 x USB, 2 x PS2 ports (Keyboard, Mouse), Audio line in, headphone out, microphone in, RJ-45 (Ethernet), Parallel port, Serial port, VGA Expansion slots - 4 PCI Slots (4 available) Drive bays - 2 x 5.25 (1 occupied), 1 x 3.5 (occupied) Microsoft XP Professional with Recovery Partition Dimensions (WxHxD) - 16.7 x 16.3 x 5.5 Monitor is not included

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent pc., January 13, 2010

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Gregory Williamson "A Century 21 Disciple of ... (Raleigh, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: IBM ThinkCentre M50 8187 Desktop PC - REFURBISHED (Personal Computers)

I purchased this pc from DATA SALES, and I am very pleased with it. I upgraded from an older, slower pc (Pentium 3: 500 mhz, 512 mb ram, Windows XP Pro) to this IBM (Pentium 4: 3 ghz, 1 gb ram, Windows XP Pro) and, as can be imagined, the difference is incredible. The pc came with 512 mb ram instead of the advertised 1 gb, but Data Sales promptly shipped me the rest and even gave me a free upgrade (to 1.5 gb). I cannot speak to the issue of drivers, as noted by another reviewer, since after hosing the hard drive (via imaging my old hard drive) I wound up installing Windows XP Pro from scratch (which was probably the best thing to do, anyway). Again, I am very pleased with this pc and with Data Sales.

4.0 out of 5 stars Sturdy and reliable, but well past their prime, June 27, 2011

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J. Jerome - See all my reviews
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This review is from: IBM ThinkCentre M50 8187 Desktop PC - REFURBISHED (Personal Computers)

I used a pair of these as low-load servers for a couple of years. They ran 24/7 and were totally reliable the whole time. If you want to add a second hard drive, you can fit one in the floppy bay, or mount it in the second optical drive bay with an adapter bracket. There are two SATA ports on the motherboard, which most sale sites don't mention. The case design is robust, the easiest to service that I have ever seen. They have gigabit ethernet on the motherboard, kind of unusual for a machine this age. They're quite Linux-friendly, too.

However... This model is seven years old now and the technology is pretty dated. The SATA ports are SATA I, as far as I could tell. I mentioned earlier you could add a second hard drive, and you can, but you're pushing the limits on the tiny 230W power supply if you do. And you're never going to run any modern Windows version on a 3GHz Pentium 4. Plus, when I took them out of service I discovered some of the capacitors on the motherboard are starting to deteriorate.

Nice sturdy machine for its time, and if your performance requirements are modest you could do a lot worse. But inspect the motherboard for bulging capacitors if you buy one.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars not great, January 7, 2010

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Valerie Andrews "extremelifechanger" (Wilkes-Barre, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: IBM ThinkCentre M50 8187 Desktop PC - REFURBISHED (Personal Computers)

bought one of these for my daughter for Christmas. What a disappointment! Drivers were missing, and when we went to the suggested website to get them, all we got were trojan viruses! What a disappointed kid I have on my hands.