Give it time, my 2008 lenovo was originally marketed as a "photoshop-workstation". Now it chugs to even boot any Windows operating system that takes updates.
give it a break, it is a decade old! my x1 carbon is 5 years old and while it handles the majority of day to day tasks its starting to feel its age now, hopefully the x1 extreme will carry me through another 5 years
I would recommend cleaning the contact points on the CPU and heat sink. The thermal compound disintegrates over time, the fan and any intake/exhaust ports should be cleared.
My 2011 XPS 17 was struggling to boot and running full fan on idle, after I took it apart and cleaned it, it improved significantly.
Edit: struggling to run efficiently and satisfactorily fast.
I use my laptop to spawn virtual machines for various things: potentially unsafe or otheewise sensitive applications, complete development environments for the projects I am working on for a long time and I don't want to be disturbed by unrelated changes, for testing environments, evaluation, learning.
I could have a workstation but doing this on my laptop saves me the hassle of having multiple environments and makes it portable.
To quote the venerable Philip J Fry "Shut up and take my money!"
yesterday morning i had finally decided to go with an XPS15 to replace my ailing gen 1 X1 carbon, then they go and announce this, im awfully glad i hadnt pushed the button on the XPS yet, now i just have to wait for them to release it in the UK (then wince at the fact that itll likely cost me upwards of £2000 here in the UK, it may actually be cheaper to fly to the US to get one as they work out at about £1500)
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I could have a workstation but doing this on my laptop saves me the hassle of having multiple environments and makes it portable.
yesterday morning i had finally decided to go with an XPS15 to replace my ailing gen 1 X1 carbon, then they go and announce this, im awfully glad i hadnt pushed the button on the XPS yet, now i just have to wait for them to release it in the UK (then wince at the fact that itll likely cost me upwards of £2000 here in the UK, it may actually be cheaper to fly to the US to get one as they work out at about £1500)