All I have is a 13 year old laptop, and I use it basically all day most days. It's plays music and movies etc with no issues. Cloud pc for gaming, which also works perfectly. It really doesn't like youtube, though, and it sounds like a jet engine every time system and app updates start to download. Can't afford to get anything better anyway. A friend gave it to me after it died on him and he got a new one, wasn't hard to fix. I cried when I got it because it improved my life a lot, just being able to do basic things.

Everybody with a Thinkpad

Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?

I use a 12 year old laptop as my daily driver, and use it to do high res video editing. A decade old computer these days is still highly capable.

This is the weird, sentimental attitude that has me buried in clutter

I'm tired, boss.

My Zune still playing

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"Is that all you got?"

i daily an 11 year old ThinkPad. it's fast and does everything i need it to do. buying new is for suckers

Wholesome-ness on the internet? In this economy?!

I love watching videos about plane crashes on my old tablet when I'm cooking or rinsing (non-native here, is that right for doing a dishwasher's job by hand?).

A heads-up to anyone running old laptops; buy genuine replacement batteries while they're available!

I have an aging XPS 13 and of course, Dell have discontinued the battery line. Opened it up one day and every cell had puffed out. It took buying a couple of fakes before finally finding a decent reseller on eBay who stocked what I needed. The fake batteries were not recognised by Dell's hardware detection system thing, I imagine lots of other manufacturers might implement the same feature.

Old laptops will still run pretty good if you run lightweight Linux distribution and give it some RAM upgrade and maybe SSD as well. I still wouldn't use them as my main computer, as I'd rather have a lot better specs and ability to run Win10/Win11 flawlessly, but it's still a good option.

oddly wholesome

My ten year old laptop has 4 gigs of RAM and can barely boot windows. It can run Linux pretty well but it still only has 4 gigs of RAM

I let my brother use mine to play Minecraft.

— Could you skip to the next song?

— no. I cannot.

I've never had any issues playing music on a 10 year old laptop

Looking over at my old Thinkpad X131e with those “I’m going to start a new project with you” eyes

My Surface Pro 3 refuses to die despite the fans giving out, and YouTube plays like shit now thanks to the potato GPU.

Still use it everyday.

17 year old Dell here. Threw a SSD and Linux on it and that damn thing boots faster than most brand new Desktops. Absolutely enough to surf the web, listen to music, watch videos or do the usual Linux stuff (ssh, etc.). You can even somewhat game on it via sunshine/moonlight.

haha, reminds me of when I'd compile Firefox on my 12yo computer.
never felt its old age because Debian rocks.

Meanwhile, my two-year old Celeron not being able to reliably play a FLAC file without stuttering...

There's something oddly wholesome about this comic.

This is very well timed for me. I just acquired myself a convenient ancient laptop by installing Linux on a circa 2014 chrome book. It can chug when playing videos, but great for general use.

I love this, so wholesome. I have a 2009 Mac mini I’m still using sometimes

Man I feel that in my bones.

Old laptops also make for great servers and hobby computers. If you don't need the form factor of a pi or mini pc, throw Debian or whatever on an old laptop and play away! I've got jellyfin, my DNS, reverse proxy and an octoprint server running on mine. It's the little heart of our network.

I've got a 13 year old probook 5330m. It's running Lubuntu, with no working battery these days, but it's fine other than that.