@sjmulder I used a low end laptop from 2008* up until a couple years ago when keys started coming off and a replacement keyboard was $50 more than I wanted to spend on it.

It wasn't a stellar experience or nothing, the 4200 rpm hard drive was always slow and stodgy, but you could really feel the way the web was getting more bloated. I'd throw a fresh linux on it periodically whenever I'd fucked something up or there were a lot of security updates in the queue and it was just faster to start fresh without cruft.

*not as my main system but I would typically use it one day a week for entertainment and to write away from desktop