8.5 yo for sure and with Ubuntu. I improved it a little (32 GB and two 1 TB SSDs) but I bet that the original 8 GB + HDD would be OK for browsing. Browsers got faster and that helps compensating sites that got slower.
It's upgraded now to an overly powerful web browsing machine. I'm a bit happier.
Bookmarks are there for organizing stuff one will need at some time later. Keeping tabs open does not seem to serve any special purpose. Unless you want to save cycles to render it again, but I don't remember many pages I would like to use frequently that even a very old PC does not bring up in decent time. The local weather forecast loads rather slowly, but that I want to reload every time I visit it anyway.
Second source data I collected from the Steam Hardware Survey (that being a biased group with better that average specs) for 2012 seems to point that the "average Steam user" had around 5 GB of system RAM.
> HDD would be OK for browsing. Browsers got faster and that helps compensating sites that got slower.
I just remembered this article (and that article talks about SSDs, not HDDs!) surprising conclusions, posted in HN a few days ago: https://simonhearne.com/2020/network-faster-than-cache/