> My daily-driver laptop at home is a T420 from 2011 with a Core 2 Duo, SSD and 8GB RAM. Works fine still.
I am not sure I would be productive with that. Any Core 2 Duo is 10x slower single core and 20x slower multi-core than a current generation laptop CPU at this point.
I am not sure I would be productive with that. Any Core 2 Duo is 10x slower single core and 20x slower multi-core than a current generation laptop CPU at this point.
Eg: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/8588187?baselin...
I think it would mostly be good as an SSH terminal, but doing any real work locally on it seems frankly unfeasible.