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Can't remember the specs offhand so I'll have to check when I get home but it was a Toshiba Satellite (maybe a P1) and is about 12 years old (it was bought just after Vista machines started being sold).
Generally family use (surfing, photos, music, watching videos/TV/live streaming cycling races etc). MS Office via VM isn't a deal breaker tbh but just handy to not lose it as it still gets used.
Edit: Its this one I think but it has the maximum amount of RAM as I upgraded it.
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On something that old then http://puppylinux.com/ is probably worth looking at as a super-lightweight option.
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Rather than Ubuntu I'd be looking at more lightweight options like Lubuntu or LXLE.
How old is it and what do you actually want to do with it though? I've just installed this on an older machine https://www.neverware.com/#introtext-3 which effectively turns it into a Chromebook Seems to run very well and is pretty lightweight.
Obviously can't install Office on there (although I can't imagine the experience being great in Wine or a VM on an underpowered machine) but Office online is pretty good nowadays (you can even do Pivot tables which is obviously the main requirement).