Xbox 360 defects: an inside history of Microsoft’s video game console woes

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Dystopian Delight said:

Shadowblind said:

kjj4t9rdad said:
Vista = crap
Zune = crap
360 = crap
M$ can't do anything right. Why do people still buy there products?

Vista is better then XP now.

The Zune is just as good as an iPod but it looks 3 times uglier.

The 360 is awesome. 

 

Meh Vista still sucks, if you don't have 2 gigs it's unbearably slow.

 

I do like the zune especially when they were selling their 30 gig version for 80 bucks.

 

360 was badly built and you know that, only now are they officially fine. Regardless though they have the most games.

 

I ran it with 1gb on Vista 64, it ran fine for basic tasks but I upgraded the machine to a semi games machine so I needed another gig. Its noticeable but I wouldn't mind 1gb.

OT: Nvidia recently fucked up and got a 40% failure rate on their GPUs. What does this mean? RROD could have happened to Sony just as easily. Its not that Microsoft is a screw up, its just that either Sony is Lucky or Microsoft is Unlucky depending on how you spin it. (Nvidia is the supplier of GPUs to Sony btw) 

One of the main issues is likely the packaging/solder on the GPUs. They probably didn't forsee issues just as Nvidia (A GPU company FFS) didn't see an issue on lower powered laptop parts.