[nullifidian]

>given the age of this series

It's from the Jul 2019. Not very old. CPUs from the early 2010s, with enough ram, are still perfectly usable for light browsing and text editing tasks.

[arghwhat]

Calling 3900 “very old” is stretching it, but they’re certainly “old”.

Chips from the early 2010s are very old and inefficient - it’s just that you listed tasks that demand nothing, and if battery power is not required it will certainly do the trick.

Being very old and being usable are very things, as any senior person or tech collector will tell you.

[Vegenoid]

> Calling 3900 “very old” is stretching it, but they’re certainly “old”.

No, I will contest <5 years old CPUs being called "old". This perspective is warped by the marketing teams of computer hardware companies. There are many 3000 series processors which are perfectly powerful enough for powerful modern software.