I have an old 2nd gen i5 workstation laptop and even if i were to upgrade it as far as it can go with the top end cpu of the era, max out the ram, and upgrade the gpu with a bios flashed complatible one it would still be incredibly bad compared to even a $400 Ryzen based one from today. Said upgrades btw would push the toral cost of the laptop well over $800 and its totally not worth it. Such a massive difference between hw now and then