I have both a desktop computer and a laptop. I tend to upgrade each about every 10 years. I stagger the upgrades so that I get a new machine about every 5 years

I have both a desktop computer and a laptop. I tend to upgrade each about every 10 years. I stagger the upgrades so that I get a new machine about every 5 years. You think that your old machine is still 'good enough' until you realize just how much faster and more capable the newer model is. I had an Intel i7-3770K computer that seemed to work just fine. Even builds on a decent-sized project did not seem uncomfortably slow. About a year and a half ago, I ripped out the guts and updated it to a Ryzen 5950x with 64 GB RAM and a PCIe Gen 4 SSD. It only took a few days before I wondered how I could possibly have tolerated the older machine for so long. Now my laptop (Intel 6700K) which I got in 2016 is getting long in the tooth. When I update it in a few years, it might make my desktop seem slow.