I jumped into laptops around 2000.<p>The trick is to buy models that you can replace battery, memory and HD.<p>Already that brings the laptop a very long life, before the motherboard or screen eventually die. Or even the memory limit doesn&#x27;t help anylonger.<p>But even in 2016, 4GB - 8GB are still good enough if one isn&#x27;t running VMs or development environments like InteliJ.