I know a lot of people would complain about the 1600x900 screen, but I had a dual core/quad thread i3 hp laptop from 2009 to 2012 with this resolution/body style that I was quite happy with. It’s perfectly useable, unlike lesser resolutions. The 8 thread cpu / xe gpu here is good for anything that doesn’t require major cpu or graphics horsepower. Light gaming, videos, business/school work. Trading pixel count for screen dimensions isn’t a bad thing - 17in screens are great for four-eyed people like me. I also found it to be fairly robust as a gadget I lugged around campus or offsite work projects, and if something had destroyed it, the cost was minimal to fix or replace.
(see, Woot? I don’t crap on ALL of your computer offers 
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Sounds very similar to what I have been using as a business computer but a 10th gen. My biggest gripe with these is why 12GB and not a matched set to make 16GB? Save the 4GB for the chromebooks and not force an upgrade over 4GB overstock.
Bought one of these the last time it was offered. First thing I did was upgrade the hard drive to a SSD, increase the memory and upgrade to Windows 11. It was painfully slow out of the box but with these upgrades it is really snappy now and I use the 1 TB as an external HD.
Perhaps it’s a way to get rid an excess inventory of 4GB sticks? 8GB of the 12GB will still be able to run in dual channel.
(Note that I am not staff. I just volunteer to help out on the forums.)
Upgrading to a cheap ssd will probably at least double the performance overall. The 12GB config is weird, but I’m actually okay with that, as it means a lower purchase price, since I usually will replace with 2x8GB or 2x16gb if the chipset allows, when I can afford it.
That said, my current tote-around laptop has the same ram (next level up 1165g7 cpu) and 12 GB and it does everything I need it to as a portable device. I’d also bet this has a brighter screen than the crappy 1080p my little dell has.