@datarama Just to illustrate: Depending on what you want to do with Blender, it can benefit from some fairly beefy hardware. But!...
I went to university from 2004 to 2009. As you may remember, this was a time during which I was having a lot of fun learning to use Blender for the purpose of creating some weirdly overengineered movie posters for the movie club.
So I could run some actually quite advanced 3D modeling software back then, on hardware affordable to a student.
Even at that time I feel we were moving (or had moved already) well past the kind of hardware most of us would ever actually need.