Comment by estimator7292

Put it this way, I only retired my 2013 T530 last year. I think 3rd gen i5 2C4T.

The main limitation for my daily development was simply RAM. The system topped out at 2x8GB. Otherwise, I could run android studio and all my modern JetBrains stuff pretty well. Slow, but good enough.

Compile times were of course terrible, but most of what I do is small embedded firmware type stuff so it never took too long.

But as siblings mention, for anything super heavy it was just an ssh terminal into a beefy server. At a certain point, two real cores is just not enough.

I did upgrade it to the top-spec 4c8t processor right at the end, but it ran way too hot. Between keeping the system on the edge of thermal throttling and the halved battery life, it was not worth the money :(