Best Desktops ?

All of them will do if you are buying a desktop. They all make a pretty good home unit.

Do know that you could also build your own computer. It's not that difficult and you get better bang for your buck. I outlined most of the process here: QWERTY Articles Recommended Building Guide – 2018 - Qwerty Articles

But whether you buy or build, the one question is: What exactly do you want it mainly for?
I mean Gaming? Browsing? Facebook machine? Music and/or video production? Using Office or like suites? Business? Overclocking and benchmarking

No gaming.
Just basic word processing, some light spreadsheets, and internet.

An off the shelf would be ok or even a laptop actually.

If the specs are identical both are good

Masterchiefxx17 said:

All of them will do if you are buying a desktop. They all make a pretty good home unit.

Do know that you could also build your own computer. It's not that difficult and you get better bang for your buck. I outlined most of the process here: QWERTY Articles Recommended Building Guide – 2018 - Qwerty Articles

Great article Justin. I always recommend building. You get the components you want and the quality you want instead of what someone else thinks you may want. Very well written and explained.

A little more about the above as an example:

A few years ago I bought a Lenovo H530 and was able to run two virtual machines simultaneously with it, and it cost me 499 Euros over here in Germany, and our prices here are high than stateside. For the specs(originally it came with 8GB RAM, but I upgraded it to 16GB, and added an SSD as system drive and used the 1TB HDD it cam with for data and system images. And it came with Windows 8.1, but I later upgraded to 10 on it)
System Spec

System Manufacturer/Model NumberLenovo H530/10130OS
Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
CPUIntel Pentium G3220 @ 3.00GHz
MotherboardLENOVO SHARKBAY (SOCKET 0) (BIOS Version IEKT31AUS)
Memory16GB (2x 8GB Kingston)
Graphics Card(s)1024MB ATI AMD Radeon HD 7000 series (MSI
)Sound CardRealtek High Definition Audio & AMD High Definition Audio Device
I still keep it as an emergency backup pc if my main system dies on me.

What I will recommend though is, if you get an off the shelf one, let Windows 10 install, then get all your drivers(ONLY the drivers from the manufacturer's site, then do a clean install with Windows 10 install media, so you won't have any of the crap ware that gets included.

I built my own rig after researching and buying all the parts. [see specs] The feeling of satisfaction when I pressed that "ON" button and it booted for the first time was immense There's really no comparison in just buying pre built unit.