I have 2 Dell Inspiron 1525 from 2008, still kicking bottoms as DAW under Manjaro. I used to have a a Dell Latitude d630 from 2007 running Debian fine in 2018 b

I have 2 Dell Inspiron 1525 from 2008, still kicking bottoms as DAW under Manjaro. I used to have a a Dell Latitude d630 from 2007 running Debian fine in 2018 but I gave it away. Compared to my 2008 macbook pro, that cost me 1400€ at the time, and suddenly died on me 4 years later for no obvious reason (this series was subject to a recall campaign due to its nvidia 8600 gpu, but I missed the elegibility window by a few months). TBH though, my dad uses a 2009 macbookpro with W10 and it runs just fine with an SSD. All in all, you never know, YMMV .