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Depends if it's useful for you to have an old laptop hanging around.
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I've recently bought a Lenovo x230 (i5, 8GB RAM) from 2012. I stuck a 256GB MSATA drive (from eBay for £60ish) in it and put Win10 on it and it runs fine. Proper fast.
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Depends on the laptop partly.
My main laptop is probably 6 years old but that is an i7 with 16GB of RAM, it runs everything perfectly fine.
I've also got a similar age laptop (which I actually bought for £60) with SSD, i5 and 2GB of RAM that runs Linux Mint fine and is pretty snappy most of the time. I'd also expect it to run Win10 OK.
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Does the forum think it's worth spending ~£60 on SSD* for an 7yo laptop with 3GB RAM** running lubuntu? Or is it better to put that money towards a 2014-15 ultrabook that already has an SSD and can probably run Windows 10?
*Crucial BX300 240GB SATA 2.5 SSD
**upgrading RAM is too expensive.