I do some work on my ThinkPad t420s. It's about a decade old now. I understand it's anecdotal but fwiw. Note that it's plugged into Ethernet.
I do ALL my work on a t25 which is just about 5 years old now. This includes daily calls with dozens of video participants (ms teams and WebEx mostly) while I have chrome and Firefox open with multiple tabs including outlook and Gmail and slack, couple of MS words, couple of PowerPoints, Visio, etc. That's a dual core processor from more than couple of years ago and it's nowhere near capacity with that workload.
It does have lots of ram and Ethernet to residential Fibe 1gbps. But CPU just hasn't been an issue and I plan to work on this another 5 years
With my t25? Participant, absolutely! As I said, it's my main daily workstation. Over last two years that included using built-in webcam, a dsrl, and currently Logitech external webcam.
Heck I've run full PeopleSoft multi vm setups on my ancient t420 back in the day. A little CPU really goes a longer way than people realize.
I do ALL my work on a t25 which is just about 5 years old now. This includes daily calls with dozens of video participants (ms teams and WebEx mostly) while I have chrome and Firefox open with multiple tabs including outlook and Gmail and slack, couple of MS words, couple of PowerPoints, Visio, etc. That's a dual core processor from more than couple of years ago and it's nowhere near capacity with that workload.
It does have lots of ram and Ethernet to residential Fibe 1gbps. But CPU just hasn't been an issue and I plan to work on this another 5 years