I have a dual-core Haswell laptop (i5-4200U, Dell Latitude) with an SSD and 8GB of RAM and it still works fine for basic web browsing, programming assignments, watching videos at 720p and 1080p, etc. I've tried it with both Linux Mint 21 and Windows 10 and it's totally usable on each. The only thing I've noticed as a "problem" is that some heavy websites will take a couple extra seconds to render in the content, such as Youtube when scrolling through the main page.
I have a dual-core Haswell laptop (i5-4200U, Dell Latitude) with an SSD and 8GB of RAM and it still works fine for basic web browsing, programming assignments, watching videos at 720p and 1080p, etc. I've tried it with both Linux Mint 21 and Windows 10 and it's totally usable on each. The only thing I've noticed as a "problem" is that some heavy websites will take a couple extra seconds to render in the content, such as Youtube when scrolling through the main page.