The problem with such old devices is that some of them can be impressively reliable, at an age of ~8 years, one has to worry about the device starting to fail. If you want to keep the device going once something breaks, getting replacement parts can become interesting. Not impossible per se, but depending on how popular a particular device was in its day, finding spare parts can be very time-consuming.

Still, I agree. I have a 2008 netbook at home I still use regularly, and I hardly throw away a computer that still basically works.