the biggest issue I've found with older computers, besides Win11 requiring a TPM, is the mechanical hard drives. I have an 18 year old desktop with an Intel E2200 and it was almost unusable with the traditional hard drive, works fine with an SSD for web surfing and other general Internet use.The original Space Shuttle computers were 32 bit machines running about 1/2 million instructions per second with KB of RAM memory, later upgraded to about 1MB and doubling the speed - your old laptop is far faster, with more RAM and is more than capable of launching the Space Shuttle!
