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It's probably impossible to find, but if you are going to buy a new one, always try to find the ones with non computerized control panels. If they still make them, go for the ones with old school knobs.
Several years ago we bought a $875 Friedrich window air conditioner from P.C. Richards and the second summer we had it, it malfunctioned. Thankfully we had purchased the extended warranty and a repairman came. He told us the reason why newer appliances fail is because the motherboard on the computerized control panels malfunction and break very easily.
Just one power failure can fizzle out the control panel. It even happened with our double wall oven. The top oven had computerized buttons and the bottom one just had knobs. The top one malfunctioned after a brown-out and the one with knobs below it still worked fine.
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