Anecdotal, but I made a used ibm t23 last from 2005-2009.i had to replace the motherboard once because of bad capacitors; and the ram eventually failed. But, I

Anecdotal, but I made a used ibm t23 last from 2005-2009.i had to replace the motherboard once because of bad capacitors; and the ram eventually failed. But, I had the thing optimized. Removable cd rom meant I could save the weight. For it to last in 2009 against peers with quad cores and 4gb of ram, I had everything compiled as specifically as possible. It could run windows through virtual box "better" than peers that had windows with bloatware. Ultimately used it for a video processing project in 2009 because it would run python and qt better than the 4 other people in my group project.