nah it's utter shit, you should send it to me so I can dispose of it properly.
wtf, dude 12th gen i7, is it enough?! I run a 1st gen i7 on desktop and a 4th gen on laptop and my workload exceeds yours significantly.
storage can totally get upgraded with a bog-standard NVMe SSD. RAM can't but it's doubtful you're gonna need more than that for standard desktop work, unless you're into VMs, docker, and the like.
7430 is a nice system. I've done a lot with 7400/7410/7420 systems and some of my friends use them daily for programming.
Sure 16G is a restriction in some ways and some compilers take so much ram that make -j10 will fail on 16G but it's still pretty decent.
What OS are you using? Linux works nicely on 16G, Windows is usable but not so good.
It's a good deal.
RAM can't be upgraded but Storage absolutely can, it's just a standard 2280 m.2 drive, you can even chuck a second 2242 drive in if you remove/never had WWAN (LTE/5G modem).
Edit: If you're using Linux, grab a cheap Intel Optane M10 drive from AliExpress, 16GB drives are <$5 32GB and 64GB are ~$1/GB- they have incredible endurance and 250MB/s Q1T1 random read (better than any consumer NAND ssd...) - perfect for swap partition on a 'low' ram machine.
Get an external drive. You can then have as much as you want. And more importantly you'll have backups.
$250 for a 12nd gen Intel I would think is a pretty good deal, especially with ram prices slated to increase even further. The storage should be upgradeable if you need to. I guess it's the ram that isn't upgradable.
16GB of ram is okay for most stuff. If you're a heavy browser tab user, it might be a little low when you start programming and compiling things locally on the machine, but for usual school and regular office type tasks, it should be fine.
To upgrade ssd, again ram isn't upgradeable:
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