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		gabrielhidasy on Sept 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates On the other hand, considering we are talking about kids breaking laptops, this failures are much more random, a brand new laptop is not that much more likely to survive a fall than an old one.

account42 on Sept 15, 2023 [–]

If the older laptop has already "survived" a fall, yes, it is abosolutely more likely to break from the same fall than the new laptop.

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