Goal
Determine whether older hardware fails sooner under load.

Steps
1) Observe behavior during peak:

• Touch lag
• Audio dropouts
• Feed stalls
  2) Compare:
• Old vs new devices under identical order volume
  3) Note whether older devices:
• Lag first
• Require restart sooner
  4) If load sensitivity differs → proceed to P-000144-03.
  5) If load behavior is identical → proceed anyway (baseline still useful).

Notes

• Load-triggered failure is the most common generational gap.