Possible purchase of refurbished 24" iMac - Feedback wanted

I'm considering buying a refurbished 24" Aluminum iMac , 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
24-inch glossy widescreen display,1GB memory,320GB hard drive, etc... Time to hand down the 17" to my son!!
Looking for feedback from others who have the same machine spec. wise. Are you happy with this configuration performance wise? Any hardware issues?
Thanks

Hi
I can give advise on buying Refurb Apple product's because I have bought a lot including A Mac Pro and all I can say is buy whichever your looking at ,because the Refurb products allways seem to me to be new and unused (obviously refurb) but in allways perfect and sometimes minus the original box as they usually come in brown box's.
Hope that helps.

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