Just because you can technically run something on a device doesn’t mean it will be usable. A 12 year old Intel proc (even with 32 GB of ram) will feel extremely slow.
Jevon's Law makes modern machines as slow as the old ones, by loading them down with crap animation. Don't run that, and they get as fast as ever, which was plenty fast enough. Many of us have got used to Chromebooks with pokey ARM chips, and have no complaints.