I have been using a Lenovo Ideapad 100S laptop that was manufactured in 2015, and it has been largely tolerable for me, though I do get symptoms if I read text on it for too long. Without it I would be up a creek, as the saying goes.
The problem is that unlike a piece of furniture, a bicycle, a kettle, a suitcase, an iron, or almost all other items of daily use, the computer manufacturers and software developers force us to continually update -- after a certain time compatibility issues prevent us from continuing to use our tried and trusty computer that we would otherwise be perfectly happy to keep using for as long as it doesn't actually break.
This is the problem I have run into now, and particularly the forthcoming discontinuation of the 32-bit version of zoom means that I am going to be forced to find a new laptop.
The one experience that seems to be common to everybody here is that we usually do better with older hardware and software and worse with newer.
So the dilemma is how to find a laptop that is new enough that there won't be significant compatibility issues, but that is as the same time usable.
Has anyone had any success, or heard of anyone who has, with newer laptops?