I recently bought a Dell Latitude 7430 with an i7-1265u, 10 cores, 1.8Ghz, 16gb of (I think) DDR4 RAM, and a 256GB SSD for 250$. I still have time to return the machine. I was wondering whether I got a good deal here or not.
My purpose is mostly for general school stuff. Spreadsheets, docs, Zoom meetings, and the like. I might be getting into the world of CS, but I’m not at a point yet where I would need much power.
Still, the 256GB of storage worry me. And unfortunately it can’t be upgraded. Still, if I’m not doing much besides all of the basic tasks expected of a work laptop, do I really need more?
Should I consider returning it and try to get another deal? Keep it? Or something else altogether?
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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.
$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: