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?

  • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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.