>It comes with the CPU, motherboard, and RAM, all in one package.
Unfortunately, the RAM not being socketed means you're limited to 8GB, which disqualifies this machine as workstation.
Low CPU performance is tolerable, system chocking on low RAM isn't. I'm suffering on a laptop that "only" has 16GB RAM, and this is despite minimizing the load by alternating between Sway and i3 depending on mood on boot. Editor, Browser (unavoidably heavy, with a ton of tabs open as part of the workflow), PDF viewer, Music player and little else. Everything is bloated these days.
I don't see how 8GB can be tolerable as a workstation. It really is a deal breaker.
Hah! 8G of RAM is plenty for a workstation. My main laptop away from home is only on 4G and I seem to manage just fine. My home workstation is 32G but the only time I get even close to that is when I use /tmp to compile a large project.
Unfortunately, the RAM not being socketed means you're limited to 8GB, which disqualifies this machine as workstation.
Low CPU performance is tolerable, system chocking on low RAM isn't. I'm suffering on a laptop that "only" has 16GB RAM, and this is despite minimizing the load by alternating between Sway and i3 depending on mood on boot. Editor, Browser (unavoidably heavy, with a ton of tabs open as part of the workflow), PDF viewer, Music player and little else. Everything is bloated these days.
I don't see how 8GB can be tolerable as a workstation. It really is a deal breaker.