I have a 2008 MBP (4,1) with a 200GB regular HD and 4GB of RAM. It's been a good computer. I had the bulging battery issue last year and had that serviced. Other than that, that's the only problem ...
More reports of new RTX 5090 and 5080 graphics cards failing due to overheating and melting power cables are emerging, suggesting that the problem may be more widespread than initially thought.