For the 4GB model, my very usable if somewhat low-end IBM Thinkpad ~15yrs ago had about 1/10 as much memory. Probably similar on the processor—I bet one core on this is something like 3x as fast as the single-core Celeron I had in that thing. Video capabilities are so much better it'd be hard to even compare them. IO's much faster—5400RPM spinning rust on that laptop, the SDCard's probably a lot faster even, let alone the USB3. The only reason this thing might not make an excellent desktop these days is all the bloated web shit we use.