As technology marches on, one of the “new normal” rules of the game is that while a product/device/software set might be cool today, pretty soon it is either obsolete or has died.
Within the past year I’ve had two hard drives collapse, an iPod go bad, one cell phone decide that it didn’t like swimming, and a wireless mouse/PowerPoint controller pass away in the heat of a training session. Everything electronic works faster these days, and the devices die faster too.