I use a Thinkpad T530 for reasons that are very important to me. It is the only laptop that I have, so it is what I use for every manner of portable computing.

It still does all the things I want it to do, including using modern websites with modern browsers on modern operating systems (including Windows 11).

The T530 was released in June of 2012.

The 2012 computer running a modern linux install will still work fine. I'm talking more about the specs, specifically memory. I had 8gb of ram in my computer in 2012, the Macbook Neo released this year still has 8gb and is usable for modern day tasks.

We don't _need_ that much ram, we just found new things to do with more.