Comment by ruthmarx

> A 200 dollar computer at best is going to let you play low demand indie games and things with garbage mode settings for running on potatoes.

That's not true. I still regularly use an old Dell Latitude from almost 15 years ago sometimes - it cost under $150. I can do everything I need on it, even compile Firefox. I can't run most new AAA games, but can play a bunch of FPS games from about up until when it came out. It still plays CSGO just fine, for example.

The real advances in performance the last decade has been in GPU performance, not general performance.