I'm thinking of buying a 360 in the upcoming months.

I live in a country with no official support and I will have only 2 years of warranty (and this warranty will be in another town) so it's quite important to me to buy a console with no hardware problems.

So are the last ELITEs produced hardware problems free ?

No, chances of getting a RROD have been reduced but absolutely not eliminated. If you want a console with no hardware problems I suggest getting a Wii or PS3, they also have a percentage of broken units but those are only a fraction of the broken 360's.

Before accepting advice from others in this place I suggest looking at any clues for being MS fanboys before accepting it. Only they are stupid enough to portray the 360 elite as rrod free.

Edit: lol, what if those guys where pc fanboys.... They would deny all driver problems of every piece of hardware. What a lovely scenario that would be, we'd have starcraft appearing in millions of topics worldwide with the same repetitive answer: "Windows is great, it's the other manufacturer fault and placing your ps3 within a radius of 100 miles might also be the problem, but I will buy the PS3 when there will be good games for it so I am not biased."

Largely yes. You can be fairly confident of getting a capable console. The addition of a second heat sink and smaller chips have lowered risks.

Ignore Gazz, he's a fanboy.

@ Gazz

PS3 and Wii can experience problems as well, but within industry standards. Reports seem to indicate that even without RRoD woes other problems like with DVD drive issues the 360 is still way beyond acceptable industry standards with regard to failing hardware. DVD problems will likely increase in course of time as these are prone to wearing (they are essentially cheaper versions of PC drives, not really designed to spin all the time while playing as this isn't needed on PCs due to harddrive installs)

it will never be elimanated, ms enjoy RRoD, bill gates is laughing his ass right now.

Actually RROD's in Elite XBox 360 is higher than normal XBox 360. It is now 1 in 2 failure rate. A friend of mine bought an Elite and it RROD like within 1 hour of playing BioShock. He took it back and got a PS3 instead and is another satisfied customer.
Every second person I have asked 20 people all up who purchased Elite. 50% experienced RROD within two weeks of using their Elites. Now they all have PS3's

 I did say that PS3 and wii are prone to failure. Ofcourse they are.

I forgot about the dvd issues. The 2 360's I had also sounded like their fans were going to explode any second. Kinda like this movie: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cdd_1203701257

What's the deal with those Wii dvd drives btw? Sure hope I don't get the issues reported online with Brawl not being recognized, I don't want to lose my Wii.... 

the 360 has always had 2 heat sinks, one for the CPU and another for the GPU. it was the GPU head sink that was imporoved to allow for much better cooling.

Also, it was the CPU that was shrunk, but the real culprit of the RRoD was the GPU and this still has not be shrunk to the 65nm tech.

When the 360 finally gets it's GPU shrunk to 65nm techn, then you can feel safe that your 360 won't break any time soon, so it as all he should wait for the newer models that contain this upgrade.

My advice would be to wait a bit longer. I'm fairly certain MS is going to be releasing a reworked line of 360s in a few months.

Wii has reportedly 1 to 2% failure rate.
PS3 is 0% failure on hardware. "If you argue this claim than you are trolling and should be banned for anti-Sony flaming"