There are a few reasons to go the route mentioned in the article: - You may want to run more recent games. The 10 year old laptop, particularly one with a dedi

There are a few reasons to go the route mentioned in the article: - You may want to run more recent games. The 10 year old laptop, particularly one with a dedicated GPU and a lot of RAM, will even run some current games. - There seems to be a fair bit of interest in retrocomputing these days. This is driving up the cost of both hardware and games. It is also possible to purchase many older games through GOG and Steam that you would not be able to directly install on that old hardware (either due to the installer or client). - An older laptop is going to be smaller, quieter, and more reliable. Even if something does fail, it is going to be easier to find replacement parts.