[VodkaHaze]

I mean for the average use case, a 5 year old pc generally has the compute capability.

Gaming requires updating (though 32nm cpus are still perfectly fine).

Scientific computing will move to the cloud soon enough, as you either need absurd capabilities, or a recent laptop is generally powerful enough for data science (depending on the usecase).

Hell, I dusted off a 10 year old core2duo HP laptop and it does most of what I need it to (browsing, jupyter notebooks, etc.) fine. The one common app that's painful to use it with is Facebook and other sites that became a sort of monstrosity (the ones with 40 NoScript dependencies you need to whitelist to see content)

[RodericDay]

I'm using a 2013 Macbook Air and the only website that makes it feel aged is Facebook.

Even the input boxes are poorly and awkwardly given these stupid resizing animations.