I have a couple of computers that I use for various purposes. One is my general computer for office and financial work. The others are various laptops that I either bought or acquired. Almost all my computers, including the ones for my wife and daughter, have i7 processors. My argument is that more CPU power means the likelihood of extending the lifetime of the computer. The computer below changed my thinking. I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 that I bought my mother in-law in 2010 or so. It has 3 GB of memory and a 128GB disc drive and an icore duo processor. I use it for packet radio running direwolf and BPQ32. I also have wine and VARA installed. Its amazing how well it works. After the last lubuntu upgrade, the express card with two USB 3.0 ports stopped working, or so I thought. I quickly looked around for a replacement focusing on the low end of the market. I ordered the PC below, a super compact N100 12th generation processor. With 512 GB disc and 16 GB of DDR4 memory from AliExpress