Perhaps not the best of examples. The original Newton MessagePad cost $800. I owned every single Newton MessagePad (because I developed software for them and needed to test it on them). When Apple stopped making the Newton, Newton users like me sort of clung to our devices because there was nothing good enough to replace them. As their hardware broke down, we'd piece them together: I wound up taking pieces of three Newton MessagePad 2100s to construct a FrankenNewton which still works fine.