For text editing, sure. For an IDE for, say, C/C++, Visual Studio beats it soundly. For Java, Eclipse. All that said, these tools are quite useful despite bei

For text editing, sure. For an IDE for, say, C/C++, Visual Studio beats it soundly. For Java, Eclipse. All that said, these tools are quite useful despite being old--I don't mean anything pointing out their age other than that a somewhat old laptop is probably still quite sufficient.