Nowadays, running an 8-year-old machine is no big deal unless you are doing some cutting-edge tech work. My current desktop is 8 years old, and is perfectly capable of running modern games in 1080p60 on Ultra or Very High. It can run Blender, GIMP, KiCad, Vegas, any kind of production software I throw at it.
In 2015, an 8-year-old QVC-grade laptop was *struggling* just to run a 64-bit OS, but I developed my patience and we soldiered on.