Am I the only one powering through with old refurbished PCs? For most of my needs 16gb ram and an SSD "cures" most old laptops.
I have a 9 year old laptop, and 3 in use desktops that are between 9 and 10 years old. Once you have 4 cores and 16+ gigs of ram, it's hard to need any more performance in typical day to day tasks.