> Should I participate if my laptop is 10 years old? I fondly remember showing my 2003 Thinkpad X30 to my students when it turned 10 years old. Given that I grew up in the glory days of Dennard scaling, the standard rule of thumb was that you wanted a new machine every 3 years or so and a machine older than 5 years was just utter crap.
So being able to still make good use of a 10 year old machine seemed surreal. Nowadays, I'm still planning to use that same Thinkpad X30 to display PDFs in the classroom (when I get to meet students physically again), and more than half of my machine are older than 10 years old. Better yet, they don't seem significantly slower than my newer machines. So, yes, 10 year old machines and still very much relevant. Stefan