[Sayrus]

My 10 years old laptop has FHD screen, half a TB of SSD. Battery life is not as great as today's laptop but that's a tradeoff my family is willing to take because they transport the laptop but rarely use it on battery.

Battery can be changed easily, memory can be replaced in case of failure or need to upgrade.

It doesn't support Windows 11, but it happily runs 10, browser and the entire Office software suite. It's built in an plastic/aluminum chassis so it's a bit sturdy but the keyboard is not soft as low-end plastic keyboards.

The value of such a laptop is lower (if not nearly $0) than a low-end laptop but much snappier.

[ivraatiems]

The value of that laptop is definitely not $0. It's probably $50-150 depending on the specifics of the machine.

Battery life is one of the biggest issues there isn't a good way around. Replacement non-OEM batteries are extremely variable (and often pretty poor) in quality.

Also, it probably does support Windows 11, as long as you're OK with manual installation of the once-a-year feature updates.