[flyinghamster]

As someone who just picked up a reconditioned six-year-old, i7-equipped ThinkPad for a hell of a lot less money than what it would have cost brand-new, I have to laugh. It may not be the Latest and Greatest, but it's still speedy enough to handle anything I'm going to throw at it. The CPU performance curve has flattened out in the last few years, to the point that it's not worth spending lots of money for a modest performance gain.

I'll let someone else take the depreciation hit.

[basch]

considering cpu speed has been "good enough since around core 2 duos (late 2006?) the only major improvements since then have been battery life and ssd cost.

anyone with a computer from the last 10 years that can support an ssd and 8+gb ram, is probably fine. travel being the exception.

[NEDM64]

You probably did a very bad deal.