@digdeeper @ryo @Burn @djsumdog @lina It's definitely enough. I used a desktop from 2008 with 4 GB of RAM for a year, a few years ago, and it was fine. The biggest struggle is always web browsers. I open a lot of tabs, and sometimes multiple windows, and I don't even like closing browsers, because sometimes they just break the session and I lose everything, so I have to keep backing everything up every time I close them. Probably going to outsource that to an external program. It doesn't help that they are all about different things, and there is no way to organize them. Except maybe with some extension, but that's not ideal, I want to keep as much as possible out of the browser.

Anyway, my newest hardware I think it my laptop from 2015, and it's about on part with my 2008 ThinkPad. So, not much of a difference. High-end 2006 hardware still beats the main computers that I use now. Hell, back then, even Apple had good hardware that was maybe worth considering. You could get a quad-core PowerPC desktop with 16 GB of RAM. Decent computers were already at the "I can use this forever" level.