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Seconded. Using a ~ 10-year-old Precision M2400 (Latitude E6400 with a Quadro FX370 GPU) and it's still going strong.

Of course, I do have my desktop for 'actual' computing. But I rarely feel the laptop is low on poke.

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^This! I just bought a Dell Precision M6400 for £300 for development work on site and stuck a 1TB SSD in it... flies along with Windows 8.

Slight issues on battery but I use it powered so for an 8 year old laptop I am not complaining.