What is the oldest hardware on which I can watch YouTube videos and run Blender?
This will help in enabling education of poor students.
Now Blender 2.8 will install and Run on my Intel Sandy Bridge core i series generation based laptops and on my HP Probook 4540s laptop(Ivy Bridge core i7 3632QM) laptop under Linux Mint but under Windows Blender 2.8 will not run stable on Ivy Bridge/earlier laptops when they are Booted into Windows 7.
Linux has better OpenGL support on Older hardware than Windows 7 and really none of the Intel graphics supports Blender 3D's GPU accelerated Cycles rendering so Blender 3d will Default to CPU based Cycles rendering(Takes forever compared to GPU accelerated cycles rendering)
So 2006 era? Make sure you blow the dust out.
Sys requirements for Half Life 2:
OS: Windows® 7 (32/64-bit)/Vista/XP/8.1.
Processor: AMD Athlon 2.4 GHz or Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 2.80 GHz.
Memory: 1 GB RAM.
Graphics: DirectX® 8.1 level Graphics Card (Requires support for SSE) DirectX: Version 8.1. (GeForce 4?)
Network: Broadband Internet connection.
Storage: 7 GB available space.