Old Hardware Usability

My PC is a dualcore intel thing with 8 gigabytes of RAM. It's 12 years old. It was 2 gigabytes of RAM when I bought it and I have added an SSD some years ago and upgraded the Gfx card. It is still perfectly usable for my job (writing code, word processing, web dev). When I have bigger task, I design them on it and move them to online CPU/GPU if needed.So it's quite a durable product and I'm proud of it.Using Linux helps as it doesn't need 1 more gigabyte or RAM eac

My laptop is a 32 bit dual core from 2008ish. Just needed a new battery and an upgrade from hdd to ssd. Works pretty well for most stuff.

I'm not sure if this is sarcasm?I'm typing this on a Thinkpad x200 (Intel Core 2 Duo from 2008) running up to date Debian GNU/Linux with MATE, and it runs great!

I still rock a Latitude E6220 from 2011 or so after my main one broke and I just never replaced it.It had 4gb ram, upgraded it to 8gb for $10 via Amazon, running Alpine with awesomewm and it works perfectly fine, firefox runs fine, compiling works fine, VLC works fine, etc.Even Windows 10 ran on it fine. Really, CPU's haven't changed so much in the last 10 years, the focus has all bee on graphics.

I'm still using an X60 which is several years before that. It turns out that if you avoid the bloated "modern" software (which unfortunately includes much of the web stuff these days), it's perfectly usable. I use it for native development, browsing lightweight sites like HN, and the usual "office" stuff like email, IM (IRC), taking notes, etc. Likewise, my desktop is a first-gen i7 from roughly 10 years ago, only slightly newer than that, and also feels more than a

I have an 8GB 5 year old laptop running it smoothly - and its quite usable on a Core 2 Duo / 2GB ram 8 year old HTPC (yes a PC i built 8 years ago).p.s. the laptop has an SSD installed.

My laptop is about 13 years old. I got a new battery and an SSD a few years ago for it. Still works fine. I usually just use my desktop for most stuff.

My personal laptop is a Thinkpad T440p from 2013 with a modern SSD. I use mostly the command line and a web browser on ArchLinux. For my usage it is just as fast as my modern work laptop!I also have a Thinkpad X200 from 2008 and this one feel its age a bit so I use it to run my hobby operating system that only have a command line interface and no web browser.I like that both of them are compatible with Libreboot+SeaBIOS and I'm sad that this isn't the case for new models anymore.

Many much cheaper 3 year old PCs would handle this fine

I still own&use one; I upgraded SSD and ram an it is still pretty ok for small web dev and internet browsing.