content: I have a laptop that was made May, 2010. It still works just fine, dual-boot linux/win7. Primarily use it for at-school homework/projects but it still plays most games. It is heavy as fuck however, and I generally just leave it at home. Looking into some of the newer, and hopefully lighter, laptops and I am not impressed. I look for certain things, like a dedicated video card, a certain amount of ram, cpu speeds, etc. And of course they are all stuffed with that trojan horse of win10 and a slew of other malware. So I just keep my money and wait until the old laptop simply can't go on anymore.