The ring of death has visited my 360 three times in 2 and a half years. M$ has gotten better in turnaround time but losing a gaming/entertainment system for weeks at a time really blowz. I personally would have liked a ps3 but the $$$ didn't make sense at the time. This IMHO is what frugality truly costs.
Dictated but not read! -----Original Message----- From: Computer Guys Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Dunford Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 4:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CGUYS] First Place? [Was: Not cool enough [was re: Laptop > I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned that the xbox > history of build quality isn't something to be desired > also. I was in a best buy around the first xbox release > and both customer trial units had red rings of > death. There was an issue with a custom IC that failed in the early boxes. MS switched to a different IC and fixed every box for nothing, whether it was in warranty or not. I wouldn't call that a "history". But now Tom will... (Incidentally, compare MS's response with Sony's, which refused to do what MS did when under-engineered PS2 DVD drives failed en masse. They charged $129.95 to fix any unit more than 90 days old, thereby making additional profit for each failure. Ours failed on the 91st day. They eventually settled a class action suit at $25 or a free game per affected user. Thanks a lot.) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
