@david_chisnall my first foray into Mabooks had a 500MHz processor. I upgraded to Core2Duo, 1-2GB RAM (sounds like yours maybe).I had a FireWire disk hanging off the side at all times, and that thing was absolutely hammered with workloads. And it delivered… albeit slowly.We used to do more with less. Not because we had to, but because you could. The new generation of silicon should deliver so much more, but is held back by the likes of Windows. Those that are able to make it go further are surely the ones who will thrive.My iPhone 15 Pro Max has more number crunching power than my gaming PC. Aside from gaming and media production, computing requirements haven’t really increased for the average user.