.. or all those places could just clean install their OS instead. No significant changes have happened to hardware for office type work in a decade.. I work as

.. or all those places could just clean install their OS instead. No significant changes have happened to hardware for office type work in a decade.. I work as a programmer and have both a laptop from this year and one from 2017, no noticable difference. IMHO, spend good money on good monitors and keyboard/mouse (and other ergonomic stuff) instead of brainless throw-away-and-rebuy cycles