There may be a chance that it comes in a retail box but mine that came yesterday which was also a refurb came in a plain white box. I wouldn't worry about the webpage not fitting the desktop this is great but if you do want it to fill a majority of the desktop you can just drag the window in the bottom right hand corner. I am saying this is great because you can have multiply applications or windows open at the same time. I either have two web pages side by side or i have one in the middle and tweetie and some other apps to the left and right of the page. this is great.