Originally posted by Oner:

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Can't go wrong pleasing the wife right! What exactly do you want to "tinker" with on a 360 over a PS3? Flashing the drive? Jtag? Adding cooling features?

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Originally posted by dEwMe:

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Oh also you know there's a healthy market for those RROD consoles right? They are fairly easy to fix I guess...

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Originally posted by Jemborg:

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... what's there to break down {in my post}?

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Originally posted by IguanaC64:

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Yeah...I was mostly wanting to know if this meant the new XB360's were *less* reliable than the older models or if this was overaggressive heat management. Regardless of their history, they have gotten more reliable and my wife is starting to ask me for a new system. She wants a PS3, but I think I'd rather get a XBox because I can tinker with it more than I can a PS3. It would be my first Microsoft console after owning 3 PS2's and a Wii (I'm more of a PC gamer than a console gamer...)

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Originally posted by Jemborg:

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@Oner:

Like I said (since were into quoting ourselves)~

Originally posted by Jemborg:

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... what's there to break down {in my post}?

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...nothing. I was reasonable... anybody with half a brain can see that.

Blah blah blah, whatever Oner. Just more obfuscation, rhetoric, high-handedness and FUD (I love that expression!). Thanks for the "graciousness" rofl.

But ("GOD FORBID" lol) can you stop acting the victim? It's getting tired.

Patently, I was on topic, concerning reliability/failure, in all my posts.

I even asked you a direct on-topic question in my last post... Are you suggesting it isn't too early to dump on the new model?

Sigh, I was really hoping you had more real experience in the actual field rather than just being a dilettante. It's rather astonishing that you tout yourself as more of an expert in this than registered business people that actually repair consoles for a living. (These guys repair vintage consoles too btw.)

(I'm not sure whether to drop their website here. Would that be considered spruking?)

I'll take you to task because you go overboard. They're all (including the Wii) ok machines. Competition benefits all of us; as much as they'd love to jerk the consumer around ordinarily... someone (M Trebilcock- great name!) is taking Sony to court over the latest PS3 upgrade in my homestate ~ he's crazy or confident, coz I'd just buy a new one... or a netbook.

I won't be pretentious enough to formally "quote" myself again but I'll suggest that anyone with real concerns should adopt a simple wait and see attitude. But that's doesn't beg a need to be pessimistic... especially to the people who've already bought one. As I wrote, anybody who thinks that MS have not tried to address the overheating issues with the brand new model has a fool for a mentor or has an agenda.

Meanwhile this silly article should be taken for what it is... hyperbole over a ordinary straightforward cutout circuit. Big deal.

PS: Meanwhile meanwhile, I'm back off to my new rather excellent HD 5970 and Xpadder for a good game.

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Originally posted by Jemborg:

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Pfft... whatever.

Go back and read my posts a bit more carefully mate.

I've taken nothing personally... I've just found it risible. After all, I didn't send a photo back. My question about what you did for a living was obviously only essentially rhetorical.

The question I did want you to answer Oner was: Are you suggesting it isn't too early to dump on the new model?

I'd have to repeat myself further to counter those false claims about being off-topic etc. I did not say you had no experience in repairs- just not much in my opinion in comparison to people working in the biz. So politely I ask you to please stop putting words in my mouth... again.

There's no need to resort to threats. As you said, why should it bother you if I have trouble believing you? Is it trolling if someone dares question you?

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