> Be aware that survivorship bias may fool you when comparing the quality of new and old items. This is true, but there is an area where newer products are not

> Be aware that survivorship bias may fool you when comparing the quality of new and old items. This is true, but there is an area where newer products are not able to live up to older products: repairability. There's far too many products that simple cannot be maintained or repaired - laptop computers from a particularly successful maker of Unix powered machines comes to mind.