A year ago I was working for a company that used such PC in the cloud services. 10 months of renting that cost about the same as buying an equivalent laptop. It wasn’t good.

If you mostly need a machine for word-processing and do something intense for an hour a week there might be a possibility of saving money, but for regular use no way.

Also if you have an office where people occasionally need a powerful system then just buy one powerful PC and have them share.

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.