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All I have is a 13 year old laptop, and I use it basically all day most days. It's plays music and movies etc with no issues. Cloud pc for gaming, which also works perfectly. It really doesn't like youtube, though, and it sounds like a jet engine every time system and app updates start to download. Can't afford to get anything better anyway. A friend gave it to me after it died on him and he got a new one, wasn't hard to fix. I cried when I got it because it improved my life a lot, just being able to do basic things.

Everybody with a Thinkpad

Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?

I use a 12 year old laptop as my daily driver, and use it to do high res video editing. A decade old computer these days is still highly capable.

This is the weird, sentimental attitude that has me buried in clutter

My Zune still playing

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"Is that all you got?"

I'm tired, boss.

Wholesome-ness on the internet? In this economy?!

I love watching videos about plane crashes on my old tablet when I'm cooking or rinsing (non-native here, is that right for doing a dishwasher's job by hand?).

i daily an 11 year old ThinkPad. it's fast and does everything i need it to do. buying new is for suckers

A heads-up to anyone running old laptops; buy genuine replacement batteries while they're available!

I have an aging XPS 13 and of course, Dell have discontinued the battery line. Opened it up one day and every cell had puffed out. It took buying a couple of fakes before finally finding a decent reseller on eBay who stocked what I needed. The fake batteries were not recognised by Dell's hardware detection system thing, I imagine lots of other manufacturers might implement the same feature.

Old laptops will still run pretty good if you run lightweight Linux distribution and give it some RAM upgrade and maybe SSD as well. I still wouldn't use them as my main computer, as I'd rather have a lot better specs and ability to run Win10/Win11 flawlessly, but it's still a good option.

oddly wholesome

My ten year old laptop has 4 gigs of RAM and can barely boot windows. It can run Linux pretty well but it still only has 4 gigs of RAM

I let my brother use mine to play Minecraft.

Looking over at my old Thinkpad X131e with those “I’m going to start a new project with you” eyes

— Could you skip to the next song?

— no. I cannot.

My Surface Pro 3 refuses to die despite the fans giving out, and YouTube plays like shit now thanks to the potato GPU.

Still use it everyday.

I've never had any issues playing music on a 10 year old laptop

17 year old Dell here. Threw a SSD and Linux on it and that damn thing boots faster than most brand new Desktops. Absolutely enough to surf the web, listen to music, watch videos or do the usual Linux stuff (ssh, etc.). You can even somewhat game on it via sunshine/moonlight.

haha, reminds me of when I'd compile Firefox on my 12yo computer.
never felt its old age because Debian rocks.

I love this, so wholesome. I have a 2009 Mac mini I’m still using sometimes

This is very well timed for me. I just acquired myself a convenient ancient laptop by installing Linux on a circa 2014 chrome book. It can chug when playing videos, but great for general use.

Meanwhile, my two-year old Celeron not being able to reliably play a FLAC file without stuttering...

Man I feel that in my bones.

There's something oddly wholesome about this comic.

I've got a 13 year old probook 5330m. It's running Lubuntu, with no working battery these days, but it's fine other than that.

It's nice to have a purpose:-).

My daily driver desktop is 8. It was $1100 back then. On it I work two ver-ry nerdy jobs.

I envy you where 10 years is a long time !

This is me with my 11 year old thinkpad t420, sometimes I'll even ask it to play minecraft or holocure both of which it will mystically play just fine Steams interface unironically runs worse on it than those two games

"We are taking you to the dump today, 10 year old laptop! Ransack you for raw materials! I'm going to jam a screwdriver right through your CPU!"

My 2014 Toshiba i7 still chugs along. Technically it's two laptops in one as the first one if it was rebooted while hot the GPU would go all 1024x768 in the top left corner. The replacement mainboard I got ended up being an AMD one but if I enable the AMD chip in device manager it simply dies so it uses the onboard Intel HD graphics instead.

1GB SSD, plus 2GB HDD in an optical bay adapter.

It's on its third battery - works for about an hour but jumps to 7% within a minute of running on battery, so if I put it to sleep etc it won't go again without power.

You feel bad for zis little laptop.

This is because you crazy. It has no feelings. It is just a machine.

Smiles in Thinkpad.

The first (and last) surface product I bought was the pro 3, and I still find uses for it today. I'm planning on making it a media hub for my workout machine when I get that set up. I need to clear some space before I can put that together.

I recently purchased an older gen (refurb) framework 13 and it sure is quick. A bit costly, but hopefully the last full laptop I'll need to buy.

My desktop is an older (purchased used) Dell high end desktop system, which I dropped CPU/RAM/SSDs into and augmented with a Nvidia RTX card. Runs like a champ. Built in ~2016 or so... It was like 5 years old when I got my hands on it.

I still have my ~15 year old Alienware... I think the M15x, which was a pre-Dell acquisition laptop. From college. Which still works but probably needs some coaxing to get up and running again. That was the last "new" system I purchased. I learned my lesson then to not buy new.

I also have a collection of older servers and stuff and I run a homelab on dated enterprise equipment. It needs an upgrade as the main components are over 10 years old (except the drives), and it's showing its age. Looking at getting a refurb/used Dell FX2s chassis because it's more upgradeable than the alternatives and should save space and power.

The only warning I will give is that low end consumer systems are going to be garbage, whether they're new or not. When buying a used prebuilt, I highly recommend finding a used business system.

My 16 year old iMac valiantly can run roughly one application at a time, which is all I need it to do for background media while working

You're missing the Jolly Roger

My 5 year old laptop just got blown up by fire in battery the other day. Would've been glad to use that sunnavabitch a little more.

My laptop is still chugging along since 2011, and I totally feel this comic.

It got an SSD to really boost performance.

It still runs Windows 7.

I can't create-react-app because I can't upgrade node to the version it requires.

Chrome doesn't update anymore.

This thing is robust and feels like I've had it forever.

I will be sad when it dies.

You got yourself a Batocera station there, mister.

I'm thinking of buying a Thinkpad w530 for such "geriatric" tasks

The magic of a ssd and a lightweight distro running xfce can even perk up an average system from 2010. Bonus points if you can upgrade the memory. You can probably still get to a login prompt in 20-30s, and cold boot to a link saved on the desktop playing music in under a minute.

That's about $30 USD in parts. You will probably struggle with more intense tasks. We just replaced desktops with similar specs that were just barely able to run optimized Minecraft a couple years ago.

There are multiple clients to browse and play Youtube without jet engine tho.