Also, its funny to me that 7 months later its back at the original price.
Yeah, $249 is a bit of a rip-off for this, IMHO. (Edit: I guess after a few years of "Atom", and then N-series and J-series Pentium and Celeron laptops - also Atom, the "Normies" have been conditioned to accept slow PCs as a normal thing.)
I upgraded mine to 8GB of DDR4, and recently (a week ago) did a fresh install of 1903 using an MCT USB stick. (Couldn't upgrade using Windows Update, not enough room on the eMMC no matter what I did, even plugging in a USB stick.)
After that, AMD drivers, and Firefox, I'm down to less than 3GB on the eMMC. I did a mod with an SDcard, to move the \Windows\SoftwareDistribution folder over to the SDcard, so that Windows Updates wouldn't brick the laptop.
Maybe it runs better with Linux installed? Like I mentioned early on, it's Ubuntu-certified by Dell.