gM@X (20.01.2008, 14:06) писал:
найти чтоль в инете Красное Яблоко Смерти.... шокирующая правда от сотрудника Apple

Это то тут при чем. Не найдешь.
Я думаю хвощ купить, поэтому интересуюсь.
Особенно прикольнуло это:
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Didn't you hear during the holidays that bundles were found with units made in 06? Those were pulled back from the retail channel last spring when the new heatsink was done, and had the new heatsink placed on them and then put into the shipping flow like any other box.
И вот это:
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MS was so focused on beating Sony this cycle that the 360 was rushed to market when all indications were that it had serious flaws.
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Bad parts, incompatible parts (timing problems) bad manufacturing process (like solder joints), misapplied heat sinks or thermal interface material, missing parts, broken parts, parts of the wrong value, missed test coverage. Any one or more, on any chip, or many other discrete components, would cause this. And many of the failures were obviously infant mortality, where they work when they leave the factory and fail early in use.
Даже последние версии имеют уровень отказов порядка 10%
В общем раздолбайский подход совершенно. В корне решений - то, что деньгами можно покрыть брак и опережение сони быстро окупится. А на пользователей наплевать
А вот это вообще зашибись: если сломается фалкон и отправить его в ремонт, вполне возможно будет получить взамен восстановленный хбокс первого поколения.
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Back to the rotating inventory of launch units. You risk getting one of those back until the last one is out of the system. I imagine the next big outrage will be when some of the folks who waited till Falcon to buy a console for reliability reasons, and has to send it in for service, gets a Xenon back!
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MS has the bucks to keep losing money on Xbox for a long time, maybe forever. They've already lost around 6 billion dollars. How are they ever going to make that back on Xbox? They can't. Maybe they don't think they have to