>All Chromebook Plus laptops come with the the following guaranteed hardware specs:

I feel like these sorts of guarantees used to be useful, but now I'm not sure.

Outside of my work computer, I buy off-lease ThinkPads for use around the home (ie family computers). I think the oldest one still in use is a 3rd generation i7. And it's totally fine as a daily driver.

On the other side, I bought an off-lease desktop that has a 7th gen(?) quad-core 8 thread i7 with 32GB of RAM, and it's not going to allow me to run Windows 11. Kind of silly.